Tadarruj · The Sharia State Machine
الشريعة عبر الزمن
Every ruling below is a sequence of dated stages, not a verdict. Move through the twenty-three years and read what the community actually held at that instant — including the years in which a question had no answer yet.
The law at this moment
social · stage 1 of 4 · 16:67
Intoxicant from dates and grapes is named as a thing people take — with no prohibition attached.
worship
No verse has addressed this question yet. The community had no ruling to follow — which is itself the state of the law at this date, and not the same as permission.
economic · stage 1 of 4 · 30:39
What you give in riba to increase within people's wealth does not increase with Allah — a statement about worth, carrying no prohibition.
warfare · stage 2 of 4 · 22:39
Permission is given to those who are fought, because they were wronged. Permission — not obligation, and grounded in having been attacked.
worship
No verse has addressed this question yet. The community had no ruling to follow — which is itself the state of the law at this date, and not the same as permission.
family
No verse has addressed this question yet. The community had no ruling to follow — which is itself the state of the law at this date, and not the same as permission.
social · stage 1 of 3 · 17:33
Do not take a life unjustly. Whoever is killed wrongfully — his heir is given authority; but let him not exceed in the killing.
family
No verse has addressed this question yet. The community had no ruling to follow — which is itself the state of the law at this date, and not the same as permission.
What the ummah held
A floor, not a ledger. It is held up by one passage — 22:39, revelation #103, in fighting — and counts every surah up to that position whole. Where that passage's dating is disputed, so is this number.
Around this time
Year of the Hijrah · migration
Under cover of night, the Prophet ﷺ and Abu Bakr escaped Makkah. Quraysh offered 100 camels for their capture. Eight days through the desert — Cave Thawr, Suraqah's miracle, the prophecy of Kisra's bracelets (fulfilled 637 CE under Umar).
Nearest event in time. Proximity, never causation — no ruling above is claimed to follow from it.