Judicial System

Judicial System in Saudi Arabia
that tremendous literature in jurisprudence books, including
the revelation, which is an enormous scientific heritage rich
of applications through which Islamic scholars deal with
people’s concerns and conditions. Though Sharia comprises
specific texts; however, these texts embody omniscient
connotation and controlling rules that govern secondary
issues.
Irrespective of the numerousness of facts and renewed
events, we find in the Holy Quran, Hadith and in the sources
and rules of jurisprudence an answer to each new issue and
a response to each new event.
As a general rule, a judge may not pass a ruling unless he
is well-versed in the Holy Quran and its interpretations, and
be versed in all matters pertaining to Hadith and capable to
infer Sharia rules from both the Holy Quran and Hadith. If
the judge is not capable to make that inference, as the case
among people today, he should be at least knowledgeable
in jurisprudence matters – major and minor issues. By
jurisprudence, I mean our considerable jurisprudence which
Allah’s judgment dictated to be collected and assembled
in different known jurisprudential doctrines, that is to say,
maintaining Sharia jurisprudence in four schools.
These doctrines were codified and scrutinized against
the texts of the Holy Quran and Hadith by major Sharia
scholars, thus laying down all-inclusive sources and rules
under which coverage was established for each new branch.
Those major Sharia scholars took great pains to collect these
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