Hanafi explanations, including al-Ikhtiyar, connect the inquiry to a reasonable assessment that existing assets would likely have been discovered. Personal circumstances and opportunities to verify means differ.
Thus “two or three months” should not be transformed into an automatic prison term or a rule that release is impossible earlier. The object is reliable ascertainment of the debtor's financial state, not time served for its own sake.
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Kitab al-Hajr: Claimed Insolvency, Detention and Release
Hanafi explanations, including al-Ikhtiyar, connect the inquiry to a reasonable assessment that existing assets would likely have been discovered. Personal circumstances and opportunities to verify means differ.
Thus “two or three months” should not be transformed into an automatic prison term or a rule that release is impossible earlier. The object is reliable ascertainment of the debtor's financial state, not time served for its own sake.