LessonsAuthority of a Solitary Report: Four Legal ContextsQuiz

«وأما الرابع: فيشترط فيه إما العدد أو العدالة عند أبي حنيفة»
In the fourth category, according to Imam Abu Hanifa, either the requisite number or the uprightness condition applies.

«ونظيره: العزل والحجر»
Its examples are revocation of an agent and restriction of an authorized person.

Do not collapse this into category two. That category requires both number and integrity; here the rule uses either number or integrity. A report terminates someone’s existing ability to act, yet the party revoking authority is also exercising a right belonging to that party.

The statement concerns the specified Hanafi framework; further facts may affect practical rulings in other cases.

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Fourth category: compulsion in one respect

Authority of a Solitary Report: Four Legal Contexts

«وأما الرابع: فيشترط فيه إما العدد أو العدالة عند أبي حنيفة»
In the fourth category, according to Imam Abu Hanifa, either the requisite number or the uprightness condition applies.

«ونظيره: العزل والحجر»
Its examples are revocation of an agent and restriction of an authorized person.

Do not collapse this into category two. That category requires both number and integrity; here the rule uses either number or integrity. A report terminates someone’s existing ability to act, yet the party revoking authority is also exercising a right belonging to that party.

The statement concerns the specified Hanafi framework; further facts may affect practical rulings in other cases.