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Fundamentals of jurisprudence

Course Description: This course covers the definition, subject matter, and origins of Usul al-Fiqh (Islamic jurisprudence methodology). It also discusses the approaches to compiling Usul al-Fiqh works and the most famous books associated with each approach. The course will delve into the definition of Islamic legal rulings, divided into substantive (taklifi) and declarative (wad'i) categories. It will explain the definition of obligations and their classifications based on the action, the doer, time, and measure. Finally, it will cover the definition of declarative rulings and the agreed-upon and disputed sources of Islamic law.

Credit hours: 3

Objectives of the course :

A. Knows the legislative evidence.
b. Its definition in Usul al-Fiqh, its importance, and the topics it covers.
c. It is known by the rulings of Sharia (obligatory and definitive).
The doctor skillfully deals with emerging facts, issues, and matters, and how to derive judgments from the principles of Usul al-Fiqh.

Course outputs :

Knowledge and understanding:
1- The science of Usul al-Fiqh is known.
2- It classifies the fundamentalist schools that emerged in the codification of the principles of jurisprudence.
3- Summarizes the history of the origins of Usul al-Fiqh.
4- Sets conditions for the assignment.
5- Identifies agreed-upon evidence.
6 - Recognizes controversial evidence.
Skills:
1- Compares Usul al-Fiqh and Fiqh. .
2- It shows the reliable sources in the study of the science of Usul al-Fiqh.
3- Differentiates between Usul schools.
Distinguish between Taklifi ruling and Wad'i ruling. .
5- Differentiate between agreed-upon evidence.
Distinguish between disputed evidence.
Values, responsibility and independence:
Discuss with colleagues the types and divisions of legal ruling.
2- Inquires about the types of positive law.

Additional information:

Course Topics:
Introduction to Usul al-Fiqh, its subject matter and origins, methods of compilation in Usul al-Fiqh, and the most famous books compiled using each method.
The Islamic legal ruling, encompassing both the precatory and declarative types, and the obligatory ruling: its definition and classifications concerning the act, the actor, the time, and the amount, and the definition of the declarative ruling.
Sections of Taklif: Its definition, conditions, and incapacities for eligibility (divine and elective).
Agreed-upon evidence: The status of the Quran and some of its issues, such as types of recitations and their authority, and the rulings of abrogation.
Guide to the Sunnah and its divisions: Mutawatir and Ahad, conditions for acting on a solitary Hadith, ruling on a mursal Hadith.
Consensus: its definition, its authority, its conditions, and its types.
Measurement: its definition, its authority, its pillars, and its conditions.
and its divisions, and the paths of causality.
What is disputed regarding the application of qiyas.
And the invalidators of the cause.
Contested Evidences: The Saying of the Companion
and the unrestricted public interest.
Law before us.
Blocking the means to evil and juristic preference.

Last updated: May 22, 2026