PENGGUNAAN MAZHAB SELAIN SYAFI‘I DALAM FATWA NEGARA BRUNEI DARUSSALAM

Negara Brunei Darussalam is known as a country that strongly adhere and follow the Syafi„ite School of Islamic law (madhhab). Both in daily practice of its Islamic society as well as in the Islamic legal pronouncements (fatwa) that have been issued. Hence, this study aims to demonstrate the existence of opinion from madhhabs other than the Syafi„ite in the justifications of the State Mufti of Brunei for issuing fatwa. Therefore, library research was conducted to gather suitable fatwas, while content analysis method was performed to identify fatwas that comprised the opinion of madhhabs other than the Syafi„ite. As a result of this study, those opinions that were brought up in the fatwas are caused by several factors. Namely to show the similarities and differences of opinion between those madhhab and the Syafi„ite, to meet the demand of the one seeking fatwa (al-mustafti) and when the State Mufti was giving guidance (irsyad) at the end of his fatwa.