The ruling on bearing witness to religion: A comparative jurisprudential study between the Shafi’is and the Zahiris through my two books: (Al-Umm) by Al-Shafi’i and (Al-Muhalla) by Ibn Hazm

Abstract

The purpose of the research is to declare the concept of testimony, the point of legislating it, the study of the Shafi’i and Dhaheri Madhhab on testimony's ruling, examining and discussing evidence considering the likeliness betwixt the two Madhhabs and stating the evidence I depend on. And I utilized in this research a variety of approaches including:

- The inductive approach.

-The descriptive analytical approach

-The critical approach.

-The comparative approach. 

-The historical approach.

The study also contained an introduction, a preface, three chapters,a conclusion and indexes. The introduction toughed upon the importance of the topic, reasons for choosing it, previous studies, and search structure.  The preface touched upon the definition of the concept of the testimony and the point of it.  The first chapter included: The ruling of the will, stating the proofs, and discussing them in Shafi'i's Madhhab. The second chapter included: the ruling of the will, stating the proofs,and discussing them  in  Dhaheri's Madhhab. The third chapter included: the suggested proofs in this matter and stating the evidence which made the proofs suggested.

The study came to a conclusion contained the most important results and recommendations