Al-Muhalla
Kitāb al-Muḥallā bi-l-Athār, also known as Al-Muhalla ("The Sweetened" or "The Adorned Treatise," ) is a book of Islamic law and jurisprudence by . It is considered one of the primary sources of the Zahirite (lit. apparent, manifest) school within Sunni Islam.
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- Author
- ʻAlī ibn Aḥmad Ibn Ḥazm
- First published
- 1964
- Editions
- 19
- Subjects
- Islamic law
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Kitāb al-Muḥallā bi-l-Athār, also known as Al-Muhalla ("The Sweetened" or "The Adorned Treatise," ) is a book of Islamic law and jurisprudence by . It is considered one of the primary sources of the Zahirite (lit. apparent, manifest) school within Sunni Islam.
==Description== Kitāb al-Muḥallā bi-l-Athār is, according to Ibn Hazm himself, is a commentary of a more extensive work. This book, which is now lost, was called al-Mujallā. The book is noted for the author's view that a Muslim is not obliged to fulfill every promise; specifically, that a Muslim who promised to commit a criminal act ''shouldn't fulfill such a promise.