Hanafi Qawaid Fiqhiyya: ‘Al-Ada Muhakkama’ (Fourth/Tenth to Tenth/Sixteenth Century)

By: Noha Adel Bakr

” In this chapter, we will examine the Hanafī school’s perspective on ‘āda through the general principle ‘al ‘āda muhakkama’, or ‘custom is an arbiter’ from the earliest qawā’ id sources through those of the tenth/sixteenth century.”