An-Nisa 33

This hub gathers 2 places where this verse is used in Muhammad Shahrur’s books, linking it to the concepts and arguments that appear around it.

The verse text as cited

AND FOR EACH WE HAVE MADE HEIRS OF WHAT THE PARENTS AND THE CLOSE RELATIVES LEFT BEHIND

Brief reading

The verse appears in a historical context describing the transition of inheritance systems before the completion of Qur’anic legislation.

Axes

• Narrative and historical
• Legal

Related concepts

• Inheritance: 2
• Covenant: 2

Its place in the conceptual network

It links the pre-Islamic covenant and the gradual development of inheritance legislation.

The verse’s role in the argument

• Context: 2

Places of use

• Toward a New Foundations for Islamic Jurisprudence, p. 178: He mentions it within a historical narrative of the transition of inheritance systems before Qur’anic legislation was completed, not as an independent principle in this context.
  • Concept: Inheritance
  • Function of the verse here: Context
  • Textual evidence: «The scholars said that God approved them in that, saying: { وَلكلٍّ جَعَلْنَا مَوَالِيَ مِمَّا تَرَكَ الْوَالِدَانِ وَالْأَقْرَبُونَ } (An-Nisa 33)»
• Toward a New Foundations for Islamic Jurisprudence, p. 178: He cites it to explain inheritance through covenant in the pre-Islamic period and the first stage after the Hijra, before the inheritance rulings stabilized.
  • Concept: Covenant
  • Function of the verse here: Context
  • Textual evidence: «{ وَالَّذِينَ عَقَدَتْ أَيْمَانُكُمْ فَاتُوهُمْ نَصِيبَهُمْ } (An-Nisa 33), and what is meant is inheritance through covenant»

Related books

• Toward a New Foundations for Islamic Jurisprudence

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