Mu'tamad
*Mu'tamad* is the position later authorities of a school settled on for teaching and issuing fatwas.
What it means for me: This word solves a confusing puzzle: how can one school hold two different positions? A school carries reports, narrations, and views from its own scholars across centuries. The mu'tamad is the one later authorities chose for practice. Naming it that way is honest about the other views that still exist.
Example: You ask about a question, and the answer says the mu'tamad is one thing, though another position is also reported. That is a careful answer, drawn from inside one school, not a mix of unrelated views.
Do not confuse with: *Rajih*, the weightier view. Mu'tamad holds inside one school, regardless of who holds it. Rajih is what a specific scholar's own study points toward, in any school.
If scholars differ: Schools use words like 'well-known', 'most apparent', and 'most correct' to mark this status. Later scholars sometimes differ on which position deserves that label when their sources conflict. The difference is named here as a difference and not decided; the mufti is the reference.
See the term in context
Is skin lightening with lemon considered forbidden exfoliation?
What is forbidden regarding facial peeling is that which is done to change Allah's creation, not to remove melasma or dead cells. Using natural means like lemon, without peeling, is permissible as long as it does not…
Is wearing a patched garment and sleeping in it while it is knotted, then giving it to a pilgrim (mu'tamir) to untie the knot with the intention of overcoming spinsterhood and accelerating marriage, considered forbidden (haram) or does it fall under the category of shirk (polytheism)?
This act is impermissible and is among the ways of charlatans, because whatever benefit is not known through the Sharia, nor through experience and custom, it is not permissible to believe in its benefit. Charlatans are…
What is the ruling on mortgaging money to guarantee the return of a pilgrim (mu'tamir), as requested by offices issuing 'umrah visas to avoid fines?
There is no Shar'i (Islamic legal) impediment to the office taking a sum of money as a guarantee for the pilgrim's return within the specified period, so that the office can avoid official penalties. If the pilgrim does…
Questions that use it
Is it permissible for a sick pilgrim (mu'tamirah) who wears the niqab and is burdened by wearing the isdal to remain in the niqab and offer fidyah (expiatory payment)? What is the method for offering fidyah, and is it permissible for her to give the fidyah to her daughter who resides in Makkah?
Is it permissible for a 'mu'tamir' (pilgrim performing Umrah) who is not a resident of Saudi Arabia to repeat Umrah by entering into a state of 'ihram' from Al-Taneem Mosque?
Is it obligatory for the pilgrim (Mu'tamir) to visit the graves before traveling?