266 – They unanimously agree that intoxication is forbidden. (1)
267 – They unanimously agree that anyone upon whom a prescribed punishment has been carried out, and who thereafter repents and reforms, may have his testimony accepted—except the one guilty of qadhf (false accusation of adultery). (2)
268 – They unanimously agree that an insane person’s testimony is inadmissible while he is in a state of insanity.
269 – They unanimously agree that a person who suffers intermittent insanity, if he testifies during a lucid interval and is upright, his testimony is admissible.
270 – They unanimously agree that if a man says to two witnesses, “Bear witness that I owe So-and-so, son of So-and-so, one hundred gold dinars,” then, should the creditor summon them to testify, it is incumbent upon the two of them to do so. (3)
271 – They unanimously agree that women’s testimony, together with men’s, is admissible in matters of debt and property.
272 – They unanimously agree that women’s testimony is not accepted in cases entailing prescribed punishments. (4)
273 – They unanimously agree that if a slave, a minor, or a non-Muslim witnessed an event but was neither summoned to testify at the time nor actually testified, and thereafter the slave is emancipated, the minor reaches majority, and the non-Muslim embraces Islam, then when they deliver that testimony at a time when their testimony is admissible, it must be accepted.
274 – They unanimously agree that, in financial matters, the testimony of four upright witnesses to the prior testimony of two witnesses is admissible.
275 – The majority of scholars agree that a witness should not testify on the sole basis of recognizing his own handwriting. (5)