Some of the residents of houses of a district are owners and others are tenants. Will the oath be taken from all of them? Print
Kitabud Diyat [Blood Money] - Qasamah [oath for investigating murder]

Question 1942) - Some of the residents of houses of a district are owners and others are tenants. Will the oath be taken from all of them?

A: According to OImaam Abu Hanifah RAH. the tenant will not take the oath with the original owners who according to him are those for whom the ruler had allocated the land, not those who bought property there, even if there is only one of the original owners left.*

* According, to Imaam Abu yusut RAH. the buyers will also be included. [Sharhuz Zayla'i]

~ al-Quduri ~