以上是哈里发被任命所必需的契约条件。除此之外,没有其他条件是必须的。然而,某些条件虽非必须,但如果有与之相关的伊斯兰证据加以确认,或者它们被列入一条经过可靠(Sahih)文本确认的规则之下,则属于可取之列。要使某一条件成为必须,其证据须包含一个确定性的命令,以表明它是必须的。如果证据中不包含确定性的命令,则该条件只属于可取之列。除上述七个条件外,尚未发现包含确定性命令的证据。因此,只有这七个条件构成契约条件。至于其他条件,即某一规则已被确认为可靠者,这些仅构成可取条件。例如关于哈里发须出自古莱什部落、须为穆賈塔希德(Mujtahid),或须精通武器使用等类似的规定,由于它们没有确定性的证据,便属于此类。

Above were the contractual conditions necessary for the Khalifah to be appointed. No other conditions are obligatory. However, some conditions are preferable, whilst not being obligatory, if confirmed by Islamic evidences relating to them, or if they are listed under a rule that has been confirmed by a sound (Sahih) text. For a condition to be obligatory, it should have evidence which includes a decisive command to indicate that it is obligatory. If the evidence does not include a decisive command then the condition becomes one of preference. No evidence containing a decisive command has been found except for the seven conditions mentioned above. Therefore they alone constitute the contractual conditions. As for the other conditions, whereby a rule has been confirmed as sound, these would constitute conditions of preference only. This is like the stipulation that the Khalifah should be from Quraish, a Mujtahid or skilful in using weapons or the like, which have no decisive evidence.