Some of the fatwas of Sheikh Ahmed Sreyheed Al-Masallati Al-Jaarani

Abstract

This is a research in which the author collected some of what he was able to obtain from fatwas established and written by one of the scholars of the city of Masallath that he lived in the two eras: Qarah Malli, and the second Ottoman, not known by many people, and he is Sheikh: Ahmad bin Omar Sreyheed Al-Masallati Al-Jaarani. Few information is available about him. However, we could know that he was a mufti in Masallat, and a member of the board of adjudication in the city. The researcher could obtain some of sheikh’s fatwas that most of them were written by his own handwriting, and signed them by his name, and some others that he dictated to other people. The topics of these fatwas varied among several chapters in financial transactions in Islam religion. The researcher arranged his work into two sections: a study section in which he devoted to introducing the Sheikh, and an investigative section in which he rewrote six of the Sheikh's fatwas, documented their narrations, and introduced their narrators. Finally, the research was concluded with the most important findings and recommendations.