Yeyote anayechukua wadhifa wa qadhi lazima awe:

Anyone taking up the post of judge must be :

1) Muslim.

1) Muslim.

Bure.

2) Free.

3) Mtu mzima

3) Mature.

4) Sane.

4) Sane.

5) Tu (ʿadl) tu.

5) Just (‘adl).

6) Faqihi (mwanazuoni mwenye elimu), anayeweza kutumia kanuni kwa hali mbalimbali.

6) Faqih (learned scholar), able to apply the rules to the situations.

7) Lazima wawe na uwezo wa hisia kuu tatu: kuona, kusikia na kuongea.

7) They must have the faculty of the three main senses - sight, hearing and speech.

Kwa mtu anayeshika wadhifa wa madhaalim (kesi za dhulma dhidi ya watawala), mbali na masharti yaliyotajwa, pia inampasa awe mwanaume na mujtahid (mwanachuoni wa fiqhi), kama ilivyo kwa Qadi mkuu (Qadi al-Qudhaat), kwa kuwa wadhifa wake kwa kweli ni wa uamuzi na utawala, ambapo anamhukumu mtawala na kutekeleza Shari'ah juu yake. Kwa hiyo, mbali na masharti mengine ya wadhifa wa qadi, lazima awe mwanaume.

For the person who takes up the judiciary of madhaalim, in addition to the conditions mentioned, he must also be male and a mujtahid (legist), just like the supreme judge (Qadi al-Qada‘a), for his post is in fact one of judiciary and of ruling, where he judges the ruler and executes the Shari‘ah upon him. Therefore he must be male in addition to the other conditions for the post of judge .

Pia anapaswa kuwa mujtahid, pamoja na kuwa faqih, kwa sababu miongoni mwa mambo ya madhaalim ambayo anaweza kutakiwa kuyachunguza ni kama mtawala ametawala kwa kitu kisicho alichoteremsha Allah (SWT), yaani ametawala kwa sheria isiyo na dalili ya Shari‘ah inayoiunga mkono, au pale ambapo dalili aliyoitumia haihusiani na tukio husika. Madhlama ya aina hii inaweza kuyashughulikia mujtahid pekee. Kwa hiyo, asipokuwa mujtahid, atakuwa anahukumu juu ya jambo ambalo analijua kidogo au hana ujuzi nalo kabisa, na hilo ni haramu. Basi, mbali na masharti ya mtawala na yale ya qadhi, pia anapaswa kuwa mujtahid.

As well as being faqih he should also be a mujtahid, for part of the madhaalim that he could be required to look into is whether the ruler has ruled by other than what Allah has revealed, i.e. ruled by a law that has no Shari‘ah evidence to back it, or in case the evidence he used does not relate to the event, and only the mujtahid can deal with such madhlama. Therefore if he were not a mujtahid, he would be judging on something he knows little about or has no knowledge of at all, and that is forbidden. Therefore, in addition to the conditions of the ruler and those of the judge, he also should be a mujtahid.