*You may need to refer to your Islamic Law Resource document for some of these questions)
Question 1
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MUWATTA: What type of text is this? When was it written (Gregorian calendar century)? By whom? Who is the intended audience?
Question 2
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MUWATTA: One of the most famous Companions is mentioned repeatedly within the chains of transmissions, who is he? Hint: Abu ...
Question 3
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MUWATTA: There is a hadith in Chapter Two that doesn't seem to belong, which one (#) is it?
How can its inclusion be reconciled?
Question 4
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MUWATTA: Name the Rightly Guided Caliphs mentioned anywhere in the text WITH the Hadith # in which they are mentioned: (HINT: Four answers in the following format: name, hadith #)
Question 5
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MUWATTA: Four of the Prophet Muhammad's wives are mentioned. Name two and explain what kind of hadiths they would be able to (and did) narrate that others couldn't:
Question 6
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EPISTLE: What type of text is this? When was it written (Gregorian calendar century)? By whom? Who is the intended audience?
Question 7
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EPISTLE: What are some examples of commands in explicit texts (e.g. in the Quran)? Give one example of command and one of prohibition:
Question 8
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EPISTLE: What is the reasoning to "accept something from God's Emissary"?
Question 9
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EPISTLE: Legal interpretation when an answer from the text isn't explicit is done to....
Question 10
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EPISTLE: At least twice in the text, al-Shafi'i is challenged, find one of those times and give the paragraph number:
Question 11
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LEARNING AT MOSQUES: Where was the primary source segment of this document written? When?
Question 12
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LEARNING AT MOSQUES: What is a fatwa? Who "wrote" this fatwa?
Question 13
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LEARNING AT MOSQUES: What is the probable cause this fatwa had to be given?
Question 14
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LEARNING AT MOSQUES: Did the judge make the fatwa alone? If yes, how do you know, if no, what other roles contributed?
Question 15
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LEARNING AT MOSQUES: In the original decision, whose authority is quoted? What was the unanimous original decision?
There is a "dissenting opinion" written later. What was the dissent and who wrote it? What does the modern commentator believe is the cause of the dissent?