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Khanq (strangling in fiqh)

الخنق

Khanq is lexically squeezing the throat until death; the jurists use it for any means: a cord, the hands, or stopping the mouth and nose. 1 Hunting and slaughter: by agreement an animal that is to be slaughtered is not lawful when strangled; the verse on the strangled animal in al-Ma'ida is cited; game dead from strangling is not lawful. 12 Homicide: the majority (Malikis, Shafiis, Hanbalis and the two companions) impose retaliation for an intentional strangling, since it usually kills; Abu Hanifa imposes no retaliation for strangling as it is semi-intentional, and holds that one who strangles repeatedly may be killed by discretion. 2 Oaths: the Hanafis and Hanbalis count striking a wife as including strangling, so an oath not to strike her is broken by strangling; the Shafiis do not count it as striking by custom. 23

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Khanq is lexically squeezing the throat until death; the jurists use it for any means: a cord, the hands, or stopping the mouth and nose. 1 Hunting and slaughter: by agreement an animal that is to be slaughtered is not lawful when strangled; the verse on the strangled animal in al-Ma'ida is cited; game dead from strangling is not lawful. 12 Homicide: the majority (Malikis, Shafiis, Hanbalis and the two companions) impose retaliation for an intentional strangling, since it usually kills; Abu Hanifa imposes no retaliation for strangling as it is semi-intentional, and holds that one who strangles repeatedly may be killed by discretion. 2 Oaths: the Hanafis and Hanbalis count striking a wife as including strangling, so an oath not to strike her is broken by strangling; the Shafiis do not count it as striking by custom. 23

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Sources

  1. al-Mawsu'a al-Fiqhiyya al-Kuwaitiyya, Noor-Book copy (file named v3) , p.7884
  2. al-Mawsu'a al-Fiqhiyya al-Kuwaitiyya, Noor-Book copy (file named v3) , p.7885
  3. al-Mawsu'a al-Fiqhiyya al-Kuwaitiyya, Noor-Book copy (file named v3) , p.7886
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Ahliyya (legal capacity: to have rights and duties, and to act; its stages from the womb to full maturity, and what impairs it)

Ahliyya is lexically suitability, and it is of two kinds: capacity to have rights and duties, the capacity of liability; and capacity to act, that is to perform acts recognised by the law. Its bearer passes through the stages of the foetus, childhood, discernment, puberty and maturity. Liability is complete from birth and incomplete for the foetus; the capacity to act is partial at discernment and full with puberty and reason. It is affected by heavenly impediments such as madness, imbecility, sleep, fainting, illness, slavery, menstruation, childbirth and death, and by acquired ones such as ignorance, drunkenness, jest, folly, travel, error and coercion.