al-Anfal 41

This locus gathers 2 instances of the use of this verse in Muhammad Shahrur’s books, linking it to the concepts and arguments that appear around it.

Verse text as cited

Then for Allah is its fifth, and for the Messenger, and for near relatives

Brief reading

The verse is used to determine the one-fifth, and to highlight that “those of near kin” is a specific social and financial usage.

Axes

• Legislative
• Political and social

Associated concepts

• one-fifth: 2
• kinship: 2

Its place in the network of concepts

It is linked to the network of public-money distribution and the social scope of kinship.

The verse’s role in the argument

• Support: 1
• Example: 1

Instances of use

• The Messengerly Sunna and the Prophetic Sunna, p. 112: He employs it to determine that the distribution of spoils was within a temporary exercise of judgment by the Messenger, while the share of the one-fifth remained fixed by another text.
  • Concept: one-fifth
  • Function of the verse here: Support
  • Textual evidence: «except for Allah’s share and the Messenger’s share, which the verse of al-Anfal 41 defined as the one-fifth»
• Toward New Foundations for Islamic Jurisprudence, p. 109: He cites it to show that “those of near kin” is a distinct Qur’anic usage in the social/financial sense, not a general inheritance rule.
  • Concept: kinship
  • Function of the verse here: Example
  • Textual evidence: «– { Then for Allah is its fifth, and for the Messenger, and for those of near kin } (al-Anfal 41).»

Related books

• The Messengerly Sunna and the Prophetic Sunna
• Toward New Foundations for Islamic Jurisprudence

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