This lesson completes the opening three causes of restriction and their consequences for legal statements and physical harm. The next independent problem arises when a person is adult, free and mentally competent but spends wealth recklessly. Should the law restrict such a person?
That issue is safah (financial improvidence). It is not interchangeable with minority or mental incapacity. The important disagreement between Abu Hanifah and his two disciples belongs to the next passage and is deliberately not treated as though it were already decided here.
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Boundary before the rules of safah
Kitab al-Hajr: Grounds of Legal Restriction, Capacity and Liability
This lesson completes the opening three causes of restriction and their consequences for legal statements and physical harm. The next independent problem arises when a person is adult, free and mentally competent but spends wealth recklessly. Should the law restrict such a person?
That issue is safah (financial improvidence). It is not interchangeable with minority or mental incapacity. The important disagreement between Abu Hanifah and his two disciples belongs to the next passage and is deliberately not treated as though it were already decided here.