حدود الليل: دراسة فقهية

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The study tackles an important issue, namely the beginning and end of the night time, reviewing the opinion of linguists as an introduction to the subject, followed by the opinions, evidence and arguments of the Fuqua "jurists" (may Allah have mercy on them) about the end of the night time.

The paper shows that the beginning of the night is unanimously agreed upon, but the end is not.

The majority of scholars claimed that the dawn marks the end of the night time, while others think that it is the sun rise that the end the night.

Others claim that the time between dawn and sunrise is separate.

Ibn Taymiyah solely made distinction between the occurrence of the word "night" separately (the end of the night is marked by the dawn) or combined to the words half or "on- third" the sunrise ends the night).

The opinion of Shaykh al-lslam Ibn Taymiyah was explained in more detail in this paper.

His argument is further set into various cases and possibilities.