Inqita (cessation, and the broken chain of a narration; the ending of blood, of an imam's prayer, and of a series)

Inqita' is lexically stopping and parting, and the jurists use it in those senses. ¹²

The lack of connection in the chain of a report, whether a narrator falls out at the start, the middle or the end; it includes the mursal, mu'allaq, mu'dal and mudallas, and is mostly used of a report from a Companion by one who is not a Successor, such as Malik from Ibn Umar. ²

Inqiraz is used of things that existed and then vanished; inqita' is used of what never came into existence, such as an endowment to a first beneficiary who does not exist. ²

The jurists agree that intercourse is forbidden before the blood stops. The majority forbid it until washing or dry ablution; Abu Hanifa allows it at once if the blood stops at the longest period of ten days. ²

A follower's following ends when he intends to part from the imam; the validity of his prayer is disputed: some hold it valid in all cases, some invalid in all, and some distinguish an excuse from its absence. The following also ends when the imam leaves his prayer, though he may appoint a deputy and the prayer remains valid. ²

Continuity in the fasts of expiation, the requirement of a living beneficiary in endowments, the reviving of dead land and rights of use, the long absence of a spouse in marriage, the cessation of a person from judgeship or fatwa, and the ending of a dispute by oath. ³