17. Accountability, adjudication and juristic objectives

Source / locator: Qur’an, al-Anam, 6:164. Arabic and Jalandhari: SurahQuran; Pickthall: Quranic Arabic Corpus.

Published English excerpt: nor doth any laden bear another's load.

Verification / translation sources: Verified Arabic and published translation excerpts. English: Marmaduke Pickthall. Urdu: Fateh Muhammad Jalandhari.

Relevance: States individual moral accountability. Its use against guilt by family or communal affiliation is an application; technical rules of civil liability require separate juristic analysis.

Best use: Argument

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Source / locator: Qur’an, al-Nisa, 4:112. Arabic and Jalandhari: SurahQuran; Pickthall: Quranic Arabic Corpus.

Published English excerpt: then throweth (the blame) thereof upon the innocent, hath burdened himself with falsehood and a flagrant crime.

Verification / translation sources: Verified Arabic and published translation excerpts. English: Marmaduke Pickthall. Urdu: Fateh Muhammad Jalandhari.

Relevance: The full verse concerns someone who commits wrongdoing and shifts blame to an innocent person. It supplies a direct ethical foundation for fair accusation and fact-finding.

Best use: Argument

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Source / locator: Sahih al-Bukhari, Book of Judgments; chapter 24, no. 7174. Narrator: Abu Humayd al-Saidi.

Published English excerpt: Why didn't he stay at his father's and mother's house to see whether he will be given gifts or not?

Verification / translation sources: Sahih: included in Sahih al-Bukhari. Arabic and established English excerpt checked on Sunnah.com; its numbering is used. Urdu: Maulana Dawud Raz, as displayed by IslamicUrduBooks; the matching text, not only the page title, was checked.

Relevance: The report concerns a collector who separated receipts into public collections and personal gifts. It supplies a test for benefits arising from office, not a prohibition of every private gift.

Best use: Argument

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Source / locator: Sahih Muslim, Book of Judicial Decisions; chapter 1, no. 1711a. Narrator: Ibn Abbas.

Published English excerpt: If the people were given according to their claims, they would claim the lives of persons and their properties,

Verification / translation sources: Sahih: included in Sahih Muslim. Arabic and established English excerpt checked on Sunnah.com; its numbering is used. Published Urdu translation not verified for this addition; no substitute translation supplied.

Relevance: The full Muslim report concludes with the defendant’s oath. This wording supports procedural safeguards; the longer familiar formula about a claimant’s proof is not inserted into this narration.

Best use: Argument

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Source / locator: Sahih al-Bukhari, no. 7352, Book of Holding Fast to the Qur’an and Sunnah, chapter 21; parallel: Sahih Muslim, no. 1716a, Book of Judicial Decisions, chapter 6. Narrator: Amr ibn al-As.

Published English excerpt: When a judge gives a decision, having tried his best to decide correctly and is right, there are two rewards for him;

Verification / translation sources: Sahih: included in Sahih al-Bukhari. Arabic and established English excerpt checked on Sunnah.com; its numbering is used. Urdu: Maulana Dawud Raz, as displayed by IslamicUrduBooks; the matching text, not only the page title, was checked.

Relevance: The full parallel reports distinguish two rewards for a correct judgment after effort and one for an erroneous judgment after effort. They distinguish truth from error rather than declaring every conclusion equally correct.

Context / qualification: Arabic excerpt and English quotation here follow Muslim 1716a; the verified Urdu excerpt follows Bukhari 7352. Both transmit the same substantive teaching and count once.

Best use: Argument

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Source / locator: Ibn Qayyim al-Jawziyya, Aʿlam al-Muwaqqiʿin ʿan Rabb al-ʿAlamin (أعلام الموقعين عن رب العالمين), chapter “في تغيُّر الفتوى واختلافها بحسب تغيُّر الأزمنة والأمكنة والأحوال والنيات والعوائد”, opening paragraph. Digital text labelled ʿAtaʾat al-ʿIlm; Shamela page 1596.

Scholarly position / paraphrased argument: In his chapter on changes of fatwa with circumstances, Ibn al-Qayyim grounds the law in wisdom and human welfare in this life and the next. He argues that interpretations turning justice into oppression or mercy into its opposite fail to express the law properly.

Verification / translation sources: The cited passage was inspected in the specified digital text. English and Urdu are the compiler’s labelled paraphrases, not published translations or exact quotations.

Relevance: Provides a juristic test of interpretation and a distinction between enduring purposes and context-dependent application.

Context / qualification: Attributed juristic argument, not a licence to override texts whenever a reader asserts a preference. The Arabic excerpt and contextual argument are counted together as one passage.

Best use: Critical analysis / conceptual framework

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Source / locator: Abu Ishaq al-Shatibi, al-Muwafaqat, Kitab al-Maqasid, Part I: Maqasid al-Shari, Type I, first issue; vol. 2, pp. 17–20 in the digital edition’s print mapping. Ed. Abu Ubayda Mashhur ibn Hasan Al Salman; Dar Ibn Affan, 1st ed., 1417 AH / 1997 CE.

Scholarly position / paraphrased argument: Al-Shatibi divides legal objectives into necessities, needs and refinements. His account of necessities covers religion, life, progeny, property and intellect, and distinguishes establishing their supports from preventing their destruction.

Verification / translation sources: The cited passage was inspected in the specified digital text. English and Urdu are the compiler’s labelled paraphrases, not published translations or exact quotations.

Relevance: Connects the chapter’s moral, social and legal dimensions with an explicit juristic framework of human interests.

Context / qualification: The edition card and corresponding digital text were checked; a physical copy was not inspected. Footnotes by editors/commentators are not attributed to al-Shatibi.

Best use: Critical analysis / conceptual framework

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