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 "id": "concept/ahl-al-mahalla",
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 "slug": "ahl-al-mahalla",
 "label": {
  "ar": "أهل المحلة",
  "en": "Ahl al-Mahalla (the people of a quarter, their imam, call to prayer, and their part in the oath and blood money where a body is found)"
 },
 "summary": {
  "ar": "أهل المحلة هم القوم ينزلون بموضع يعمرونه بالإقامة فيه، ولا يخرج استعمال الفقهاء عن هذا المعنى. {cite:fiqh-mawsua-kuwaitiyya-noor-v3 p.3643} ويختلفون عن العاقلة وهم القبيلة والعشيرة، فقد يكون بينهم قرابة وقد لا تكون. {cite:fiqh-mawsua-kuwaitiyya-noor-v3 p.3643} وإمام أهل المحلة أولى بالإمامة في مسجدهم إذا كان ممن تصح إمامته، وأذانهم يغني المصلين عن الأذان عند جمهور الفقهاء. {cite:fiqh-mawsua-kuwaitiyya-noor-v3 p.3644} وفي القسامة إذا وجد قتيل في محلة ولا يعرف قاتله، يحلف المدعي خمسين يمينا، ثم تحلف المحلة أو يغرمون الدية، وفيه خلاف وتفصيل. {cite:fiqh-mawsua-kuwaitiyya-noor-v3 p.3644}",
  "en": "Ahl al-mahalla are the people who settle in a place and make it their home. {cite:fiqh-mawsua-kuwaitiyya-noor-v3 p.3643} They differ from the 'aqila, the clan and kin who bear blood-money, since they may or may not be related. {cite:fiqh-mawsua-kuwaitiyya-noor-v3 p.3643} The people of a quarter have a right to their own imam in their mosque if he is fit to lead, and by the majority their call to prayer suffices for those who hear it. {cite:fiqh-mawsua-kuwaitiyya-noor-v3 p.3644} Where a dead body is found in a quarter and its killer is not known, the claimant swears fifty oaths; the people of the quarter then swear, or pay the blood-money, and the schools differ on the detail. {cite:fiqh-mawsua-kuwaitiyya-noor-v3 p.3644}"
 },
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  "period/prophetic-era"
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  "politics-governance-and-authority"
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  "kind": "legal",
  "provenance": {
   "layer": "own-research",
   "source": "al-Mawsu'a al-Fiqhiyya al-Kuwaitiyya (Noor copy), headword «أهل المحلة», pp.3643-3644 of the scan (ends where «أهل النسب» begins on p.3645). Short technical entry; summarised at the level of the rules on imamate, call to prayer and the oath of the quarter.",
   "generated_by": "Claude Haiku 5.5",
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   "source/fiqh-mawsua-kuwaitiyya-noor-v3"
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   "review": "draft",
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 "prose": {
  "ar": {
   "sections": [
    {
     "heading": "التعريف",
     "markdown": "أهل المحلة: القوم ينزلون بموضع يعمرونه بالإقامة فيه. {cite:fiqh-mawsua-kuwaitiyya-noor-v3 p.3643}"
    },
    {
     "heading": "الألفاظ ذات الصلة",
     "markdown": "- العاقلة: قبيلة الشخص وعشيرته وإن بعدوا، وهم الذين يدفعون الدية. {cite:fiqh-mawsua-kuwaitiyya-noor-v3 p.3643}\n- القبيلة: بنو أب واحد. وأهل المحلة قد لا يكونون من أب واحد. {cite:fiqh-mawsua-kuwaitiyya-noor-v3 p.3643}\n- أهل الخطة: الموضع الذي خطه الإمام ليسكنه القوم. {cite:fiqh-mawsua-kuwaitiyya-noor-v3 p.3643}"
    },
    {
     "heading": "أحكامهم",
     "markdown": "- إمام أهل المحلة أولى بالإمامة في مسجدهم إذا كان ممن تصح إمامته، عند جمهور الفقهاء، كما فعل ابن عمر حين رد الإمامة لصاحب المسجد. {cite:fiqh-mawsua-kuwaitiyya-noor-v3 p.3644}\n- أذانهم في مسجدهم يغني المصلين عن الأذان عند جمهور الفقهاء، وفي جديد الشافعي يندب الأذان للمصلي وإن سمع أذان أهل المحلة. {cite:fiqh-mawsua-kuwaitiyya-noor-v3 p.3644}\n- القسامة: إذا وجد قتيل لا يعرف قاتله وفيه لوث، يقسم المدعي خمسين يمينا، فإن لم يحلف يحلف المدعى عليهم أهل المحلة، وعند الحنفية يشترك أهل المحلة أولا بالقسامة ثم يغرمون الدية. {cite:fiqh-mawsua-kuwaitiyya-noor-v3 p.3644}"
    }
   ],
   "frontmatter": {
    "id": "concept/ahl-al-mahalla",
    "lang": "ar",
    "source_lang": "ar",
    "translators": []
   },
   "updated": "2026-10-23"
  },
  "en": {
   "sections": [
    {
     "heading": "Definition",
     "markdown": "Ahl al-mahalla are the people who settle in a place and make it their home. {cite:fiqh-mawsua-kuwaitiyya-noor-v3 p.3643}"
    },
    {
     "heading": "Related terms",
     "markdown": "- The 'aqila: the clan and kin of a person, however distant, who pay the blood-money. {cite:fiqh-mawsua-kuwaitiyya-noor-v3 p.3643}\n- The tribe (qabila): descendants of one father; the people of a quarter need not be of one father. {cite:fiqh-mawsua-kuwaitiyya-noor-v3 p.3643}\n- Ahl al-khitta: the place marked out by the imam for a people to settle. {cite:fiqh-mawsua-kuwaitiyya-noor-v3 p.3643}"
    },
    {
     "heading": "Their rules",
     "markdown": "- The imam of the people of a quarter has a better claim to lead prayer in their mosque, if he is fit to lead, by the majority; Ibn Umar declined to lead a prayer in another's mosque on this ground. {cite:fiqh-mawsua-kuwaitiyya-noor-v3 p.3644}\n- Their call to prayer in their mosque suffices for those who hear it, by the majority; in the newer view of al-Shafi'i a worshipper is still recommended to call. {cite:fiqh-mawsua-kuwaitiyya-noor-v3 p.3644}\n- The oath of the quarter: where a body is found with no known killer and there is a presumption against a particular person, the claimant swears fifty oaths; if he does not, the people of the quarter swear, and the Hanafis hold that they share the oath and then pay the blood-money. {cite:fiqh-mawsua-kuwaitiyya-noor-v3 p.3644}"
    }
   ],
   "frontmatter": {
    "id": "concept/ahl-al-mahalla",
    "lang": "en",
    "source_lang": "ar",
    "translators": [
     "Claude Haiku 5.5 (claude-haiku-5-5), draft translation"
    ]
   },
   "updated": "2026-10-23"
  },
  "ur": {
   "sections": [
    {
     "heading": "تعریف",
     "markdown": "اہل محلہ وہ لوگ ہیں جو کسی جگہ آباد ہو کر اسے اپنا مسکن بناتے ہیں۔ {cite:fiqh-mawsua-kuwaitiyya-noor-v3 p.3643}"
    },
    {
     "heading": "حکم",
     "markdown": "- محلے والوں کا امام اپنی مسجد میں زیادہ حق دار ہے، اگر وہ امامت کا اہل ہو۔ {cite:fiqh-mawsua-kuwaitiyya-noor-v3 p.3644}\n- قتل کی صورت میں جس کا قاتل معلوم نہ ہو، قسامت کے طور پر مدعی پچاس قسمیں کھاتا ہے، پھر اہل محلہ قسم کھائیں یا دیت دیں، اور اس میں اختلاف ہے۔ {cite:fiqh-mawsua-kuwaitiyya-noor-v3 p.3644}"
    }
   ],
   "frontmatter": {
    "id": "concept/ahl-al-mahalla",
    "lang": "ur",
    "source_lang": "ar",
    "translators": [
     "Claude Haiku 5.5 (claude-haiku-5-5), draft translation"
    ]
   },
   "updated": "2026-10-23"
  }
 },
 "degree": 0,
 "contemporaries": [],
 "updated": "2026-10-23",
 "connections": [],
 "related": [
  "concept/ahl-al-diwan",
  "concept/ahl-al-hall-wal-aqd",
  "concept/al-idara-al-islamiyya",
  "concept/al-khibra-wa-al-khidma",
  "concept/al-majmua-al-shakliyya",
  "concept/al-qiyada",
  "concept/al-qiyada-al-mawqifiyya",
  "concept/al-ruya-wa-al-risala"
 ],
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