Combining positions from different schools into one composite ruling.
In Islamic law
Selecting the most convenient position from each school is generally criticised. It matters in inheritance because mixing, say, the Hanafi position on radd with a Maliki position elsewhere can produce a distribution no school would accept.
In Canadian law
A practical warning: an estate plan assembled from several online sources may be internally incoherent. Have one scholar review the whole plan.
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.
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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