Book I. Of Ceremonial Purity (Tahara)
1. The water which may be used for ceremonial ablutions.
2. Legal materials for utensils; what can be purified and what cannot.
3. The use of the toothpick.
1. The times of prayer (salat).
2. Upon whom prayer is incumbent, and
3. On what occasions.
4. The antecedent requirements of prayer.
5. The eighteen essential parts of prayer.
6. The four things in which the prayer of a woman differs from that of a man.
7. The eleven things which nullify prayer.
8. A reckoning of the occurrences of certain frequently repeated elements in prayer.
9. On omissions in prayer.
10. The five occasions on which prayer is not allowable.
11. The duty and ritual of congregational prayer.
12. The prayer of a traveller.
13. The conditions under which congregational prayer is required and those under which it is lawful.
14. The requirements in congregational prayer.
15. The prayers of the Two Festivals and their ritual.
16. The prayers on occasion of an eclipse.
17. Prayer for rain.
1. The condition of the rate (zakat) and of the rate-payer; what it is levied on and consists of.
2. On camels.
3. On cattle.
4. On sheep.
5. How it affects partners.
6. On gold and silver.
7. On grain-stuff.
8. On merchandise.
9. The conditions and nature of the rate to be paid at the end of the fast.
10. Uses to which the rate may be applied.
Book IV. Of the Fast
1. The conditions for the fast (siyam); its description; what breaks it.
2. What is meritorious in fasting; when and for whom it is forbidden; how breaking the fast must be expiated.
3. The conditions and nature of religious retreat (i‘tikaf).
Book V. Of the Pilgrimage
1. The conditions of pilgrimaging (hajj); its essentials and other elements.
2. The ten things forbidden on pilgrimage.
3. The five sacrifices of the pilgrimage.
Book VI. Of Barter and Other Business Transactions
1. Conditions and kinds of barter (bay); what may be bartered and what not.
2. Description and conditions of the bargain with payment in advance (salam).
1. Of legal heirs (warith).
2. The conditions and proportions of inheritance (farida).
3. Of legacies (wasiya).
Book VIII. Of Marriage and Related Subjects
1. The conditions of marriage (nikah). What women a man may see and to what extent.
1. On murder, homicide and chance medley.
2. The lax talionis (qisas) for murder, and
3. For wounds and mutilations.
4. The blood-wit (diya).
5. Use of weak evidence in case of murder.
6. Personal penance for homicide.
Book X. Of Restrictive Ordinances of God (hadd)
1. Of fornication (zina) of one who. has been or is married (muhsan), and of one who has not been or is not married.
1. The general law of jihad.
2. The distribution of booty taken in the field (ghanima).
3. The law of the tax on unbelievers (fay).
4. The law of the poll-tax on unbelievers (jizya).
Book XII. Of Hunting and the Slaughter of Animals
1. How an animal may be killed in the chase or otherwise.
2. What flesh may be eaten.
3. The ritual of sacrifice (udhiya).
4. The ritual of sacrifice for a child (aqiqa).
Book XIII. Of Racing and Shooting with the Bow
Book XIV. Of Oaths and Vows (yamin, nadhr)
1. What oaths are allowable and binding; how expiated.
2. Lawful and unlawful vows.
Book XV. Of Judgments and Evidence (qada, shahada)
1. Of the judge (qadi) and court usage.
2. The division (qasm) of property held in common.
3. Of evidence and oaths.
4. The conditions of being a legal witness (adil).
5. The difference of claims (haqq), on the part. of God, and on the part of man, and their legal treatment.
1. General conditions of manumission (itq).
2. The clientship which follows (wala).
3. Of freeing at death (tadbir).
4. Of the slave buying his freedom (kitaba).
5. Of the slave (umm walad) that has borne a child to her master or to another and of her children.
351:1 See in bibliography, S. Keijzer, Précis, etc. Much help as to details of religious ritual and law will be found in Hughes's Dictionary of Islam, Sachau's Muhammedanisches Recht, Lane's Modern Egyptians, and commentary to his translation of the Arabian Nights, Burton's Pilgrimage, and Sell's Faith of Islam.
