Muslim Law

Muslim Law in India is based on divine sources like the Quran and Hadith, as well as human interpretations such as Ijma, Qiyas, customs, and modern legislation. Learn about all major sources of Islamic law that govern personal matters like marriage, divorce, inheritance, and succession

Mushaa means a property which is divisible and if such divisible property is gifted without dividing the property. It may result into confusion as to which part of the. property has been gifted. Therefore only in Hanafi the rule is that the divisible property should be gifted only after having divided the property. Otherwise it will be irregular hiba.

Hiba (Gift) is a transfer of ownership in a property intervivos . Intervivos means living person. Gift is transfer of property in which ownership is transferred by one living person to another living person without consideration of existing property. Gift made by Muslim is called Hiba.

Hiba is a transfer of ownership in property made without consideration immediately. When a gift is made by Muslim it is called Hiba. The...

Personal law is that branch of law which regulates the personal matters of individuals as marriage,divorce, guardianship etc. It is called personal law because it deals with the personal matters of a person it affects only to the person concern. It deals with the matters of family so it is also called family law. Personal laws are generally based on religion. It is practice to call the personal law of different community with their religion. For example personal law of Hindu community is called Hindu law, personal​ law of Muslim community is called Muslim law, personal law of Christian is called Christian law etc, these all are based on their religion. The main features of personal law are as follow .