Bab al-Sarf: Mixed Currency Exchanges, Debased Coins and Obsolescence

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• In exchanging two dirhams and one dinar for two dinars and one dirham, how are the considerations allocated?
• Which requirement remains despite permissible cross-allocation?
• Whose contrasting views on such mixed exchange are reported in Fath al-Qadir?
• In 11 dirhams for ten dirhams plus one dinar, what matches the ten dirhams?
• What corresponds to the eleventh dirham in that valid example?
• What is the problem with exchanging eleven dirhams for only ten, without another counter-item?
• If the dinar in a composite sarf transaction is to be delivered next week, what separate defect arises?
• What kind of dirhams does Fath al-Qadir associate with ghallah?
• What quantitative condition governs exchanging two sound plus one ghallah dirham for one sound plus two ghallah?
• If each side has three silver coins but total weights are 30 g and 29 g, what follows?
• Which difference does not license additional weight in same-silver exchange?
• What is the principal distinction between ghallah and a predominantly debased coin?
• How is a predominantly silver dirham classified?
• Why cannot predominantly gold dinars be exchanged for pure gold with unequal weight?
• Which principal restriction applies to predominantly silver coins exchanged for pure silver?
• If base metal predominates, how does Quduri classify the coin?
• To which case must one not apply the allowance of unequal exchange for predominantly debased coins?
• Why might session possession still matter for predominantly debased coins?
• What is the appropriate analysis of a historical coin with 30% silver and 70% base metal?
• What is meant by circulating or nafiq currency?
• What event gives rise to Quduri’s obsolescence dispute?
• What is the stated Abu Hanifah position if the stipulated coins become obsolete before payment?
• If the goods were received and consumed, how should the Abu Hanifah position be understood?
• At what date does Abu Yusuf value the obsolete stipulated coins?
• Which date controls the coin value under Muhammad’s opinion?
• What do the two disciples share and where do they differ?
• If hypothetical values are 1,000 at sale and 800 at last circulation, what is due under Muhammad’s valuation date?
• In the same illustration, which valuation follows Abu Yusuf?
• Why are ordinary depreciation and total currency obsolescence not simply the same ruling?
• What is the sound order for analysing the sarf cases covered so far?