Hardship facilitation by considering Legal Maxims in Mukhtasar Khalil and their Relevance to the Devotional Acts of Muslims

Abstract

This research is a study on hardship facilitation by considering Legal Maxims in Mukhtasar Khalil and their relevance to the devotional acts. Khalil bn Ishaq, the author of Mukhtasar had contributed a lot to the development of legal cases in his book through application of the legal maxims / principles. And this application is almost in every chapter throughout the book, but understanding this is difficult because of the vehement abridgement of the author, which needs deep understanding its contents. The objective of the study is to discuss the areas where Khalil applied Islamic legal maxims to facilitate hardship in Mukhtasar, and the illustrations of such applications was given by the researchers, while the method adopted in analyzing these data is content analysis. Likewise, the findings of this study indicate the existence of many cases that are similar with one another under different legal maxims and lastly the study found out that, the legal verdicts exacted in Mukhtasar through using these Maxims analogically can be also applied to many of the Muslims’ devotional arts. Along the line, the research recommends that Muslims, should be encouraged in conducting similar research in other classical books of Fiqh.