Independent legal reasoning by a qualified jurist.
In Islamic law
The effort to derive a ruling from the sources. Questions genuinely new to Canadian Muslim life — RRSP designations, segregated funds, Henson trusts — are ijtihad questions, not settled classical ones.
In Canadian law
This is why a Canadian Muslim estate plan often needs both a lawyer and a scholar: the legal instruments here have no classical counterpart.
Making an Islamic will in Canada — province by province, and what makes one valid where you live →
We have not yet researched whether the four Sunni schools differ on this term, so we are not going to tell you either way. Where a specific case turns on it, ask a qualified scholar rather than relying on a general summary.
This is legal information only. For advice on your own circumstances, speak to a lawyer.
Citations & sources
Every factual claim on this page traces to a source below. Details change — check the original source before relying on any figure, fee or legal position.
- Encyclopaedia of Islam — Brill
- Oxford Islamic Studies / Oxford Reference — Oxford University Press