Ta'rif (making known: the Arafat gathering in towns, the announcement of a found thing, identifying the parties in a claim)

Ta'rif is making known and clear; the usulis use it for a definition that includes and excludes, and the jurists in the lexical sense. ¹

Ibn Abbas and Amr ibn Huraith did it in Basra; Ahmad allowed it without recommending it, while Abu Hanifa and Malik disliked it and some called it an innovation. Raising the voice excessively in mosques on that day, or in other kinds of recitation, is disliked. ^{2 3}

Announcing a found thing is obligatory for the three imams, the sounder view for the Shafiis, whether the finder means to own it or keep it; one Shafii view makes it unnecessary when the intention is only to keep it. ³

Identifying the claimed thing and the defendant is a condition of hearing a claim by agreement, since the purpose of a claim is to bind to a right and a right cannot be enforced on something unknown. ³

The detail is in the entries on the found thing (luqata) and on claim (da'wa). ³