Men's use of silver, and its contemporary developments -Jurisprudential study

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This study examines men's use of silver and its contemporary applications. Using a descriptive-inductive method, it clarifies the relevant juristic rulings by examining reported instances of consensus (ijmāʿ), analysing disputed issues and identifying the preponderant view, and determining rulings on novel applications by extrapolation (takhrīj) from jurists' established positions, alongside contemporary scholars' views. Consensus is established on the prohibition of silver vessels for eating, drinking, and other uses, and on the permissibility of the silver ring and of silver in necessity. Jurists differ on the limits of permissible use, including items partly of silver and plated items. In contemporary items, such as watches, pens, spectacles, prayer beads, buttons, and the braid of men's cloaks (bisht), pure silver not ancillary to another object is prohibited, as the four schools' positions entail. Items inlaid with silver, or plated with a coating yielding a recoverable quantity, are prohibited on the sound view, as the majority position entails, contrary to the Ḥanafīs. Where the plating is too thin to yield anything, the majority position entails permissibility and the Ḥanbalī position prohibition; the researcher prefers the latter. t recommends educating the public and silver vendors to observe what is lawful, especially where prohibition rests on consensus or the majority view and studying women's use of gold and silver and its contemporary applications.