Hamad bin Hammad al-Hammad

Hamad bin Hammad al-Hammad (full name: Hamad ibn Hammad ibn Abd al-Aziz al-Hammad) is a contemporary Saudi scholar of Islamic jurisprudence and a professor at the Islamic University of Madinah.Mujam Usar Buraydah+1

Lineage and Academic Career

Al-Hammad belongs to the al-Hammad family of Buraydah, descending through the branch of Abd Allah ibn Ali ibn Abd Allah ibn Hammad.Mujam Usar Buraydah He pursued higher studies in Islamic jurisprudence and joined the faculty of the Islamic University of Madinah, where he served as an associate professor and later as a professor of graduate studies in the College of Sharia.Uqud al-Tamin Haqiqatuha …+1 In this capacity, he taught fiqh, supervised and examined doctoral dissertations in jurisprudence, and issued legal rulings (fatwas) on contemporary financial transactions and ritual matters.Fatawa wa Istisharat al-I…+1

Legal Research and Juristic Positions

Al-Hammad is noted for his research into modern commercial jurisprudence (fiqh al-mu‘amalat). In his treatise ‘Uqud al-Ta’min: Haqiqatuha wa-Hukmuha ("Insurance Contracts: Their Reality and Legal Ruling"), published in the Journal of the Islamic University of Madinah, he addressed the juristic characterization of contemporary insurance agreements.Uqud al-Tamin Haqiqatuha …+1 Al-Hammad argued that conventional insurance contracts contain severe uncertainty (gharar) and usurious elements (riba), rendering them impermissible under Islamic law, and critiqued the common distinction drawn by researchers between commercial and cooperative insurance when lacking a clear juristic basis.Uqud al-Tamin Haqiqatuha …+1 He has also issued rulings on specific issues in Islamic commercial law, such as the zakat assessment of commercial inventories and leased assets, and the prohibition of combining sales of used and new gold in a single exchange without independent contracts.Fatawa wa Istisharat al-I…+1