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The Standing Complaint: Fatima al-Zahra's Khutba Fadakiyya as Constitutional Legal Brief, the Criterion of Islamic Jurisprudence, and the Crypto-Alid Transmission in Islamic Intellectual History

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  • 1. Sacred Civilization Research Archive (SCRA), Mandi Bahauddin, Punjab, Pakistan

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SCRA Foundational Jurisprudence Series No. 1. The Khutba Fadakiyya (11 AH / 632 CE) read as the first constitutional legal brief in Islamic jurisprudence. Five-movement legal architecture: (I) theological preamble establishing the Quranic criterion for valid hadith; (II) systematic Quranic refutation of Abu Bakr's sole-narrator inheritance hadith; (III) walaya constitutional argument; (IV) formal accusation in three juridical categories -- zulm, ghashsh, ghasb; (V) prophetic prediction as terminus. Six foundational contributions to Usul al-Fiqh: the 'ard al-hadith 'ala al-Quran criterion, corroboration requirement, ghasb doctrine, constitutional standing, ta'arud al-adilla in practice, and women's full legal standing. Transmission through Hasan al-Basri and al-Ghazali. Cross-sectarian datum: Sahih Bukhari Book 57 H.62 + Book 64 H.3711.

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SCRA Foundational Jurisprudence No. 1

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