Al-Haraam menurut istilah syar'i (definisi terminologis syar'i):

Al-Haraam in accordance to the Istilaah Ash-Shar’i (terminological Shar’iy definition):

Itu adalah perbuatan yang oleh Asy-Syaari' (Pembuat Syariat) diminta untuk ditinggalkan dengan tuntutan yang tegas (Talab Jaazim), dan pelakunya dicela serta dihukum karenanya. Al-Haraam bermakna sama dengan kata Mahzhoor.

It is that which the Shaari’ (Legislator) has requested not to be performed by way of a decisive request (Talab Jaazim) and it is that which its doer is censured and punished for. Al-Haraam is synonymous with the word Mahzhoor.

Menurut pandangan Hanafiyah, kata "Haraam" tidak digunakan kecuali apabila dalil bagi hukumnya bersifat Qath'i (pasti). Apabila dalilnya bersifat Zhanniy (tidak pasti), mereka menyebutnya "Makruh Tahriman".

In the view of the Hanafiyah the word Haraam is not used unless the Daleel for the Hukm was Qat’iy (definite) and if it was Zhanniy (indefinite) they called it ‘Makrooh Tahreeman’.