al-Thawri, al-Awza'i, 'Ata', Malik, Abu 'Ubayd, and the jurists (Ashab al-Ra'y) said: A shift, a head covering, and a wrap. The second narration is that the assessment of it is referred to the judge; this is one of the two opinions of al-Shafi'i, because it is a matter regarding which the Sharia has not provided a specific estimate, and it is among the issues requiring ijtihad (legal reasoning), so it is necessary to refer it to the judge, like other matters of ijtihad. The Qadi mentioned in "al-Mujarrad" a third narration: that it is estimated at what equals half the dowry of a peer (mahr al-mithl), because it is a substitute for it, so it must be estimated accordingly. This narration is weak for two reasons: First, the text of the Book requires its estimation according to the husband's condition, and estimating it by half the dowry of a peer necessitates considering the wife's condition, as her dowry is determined by her, not by her husband. Second, if we estimated it by half the dowry, it would be [half the dowry], since neither the dowry nor the mut'ah are specified. The basis for al-Khiraqi's statement is the saying of Ibn Abbas: "The highest of the mut'ah is a servant, and below that is clothing." Abu Hafs transmitted this with his chain of narration. He estimated it by clothing in which it is permissible for her to pray, because the clothing made mandatory by general Sharia provisions is estimated by that, such as clothing in expiation and the covering (sutra) in prayer. Kunayf al-Sulami narrated that Abd al-Rahman ibn Awf divorced his wife, Tumadir al-Kalbiyyah, and provided her with a black slave girl—meaning he gave her a mut'ah. Ibrahim al-Nakha'i said: "The Arabs call mut'ah 'tahmim' (bestowal)." This applies when they differ over its amount. If he allows her more than a servant, or she is satisfied with less than clothing, it is permissible, because the right belongs to them both and does not exceed them, and it is something whose offering is permissible; therefore, what they agree upon is valid, like the dowry. It has been narrated from al-Hasan ibn Ali, may Allah be pleased with both of them, that he provided a woman with a mut'ah of ten thousand dirhams, so she said:

• A small provision from a departing beloved *