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Shari’ah Special Bar Examinations

Supreme Court of the Philippines

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2026 Shari'ah Special Bar Examinations syllabus

Supreme Court bulletin and result sources preserve the 2026 SSBE subject weights. The official results communication states that the Supreme Court En Banc approved a 70 percent passing percentage for the 2026 Shari'ah Special Bar Examinations. No item-level scoring rubric is published in the retained sources.

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  1. Jurisprudence (Fiqh) and Customary Laws (Adat)

    Recorded weight: 15% of the whole exam
    1. Introduction
    2. Historical Development on Islamic Jurisprudence
    3. Objectives of Islamic Law
    4. Usul al-Fiqh
    5. Islamic Legal Maxims and Their Application
    6. Contemporary Issues: Ijtihad and Modern Developments

  2. Persons, Family Relations, and Property

    Recorded weight: 35% of the whole exam
    1. Preliminaries of the Code of Muslim Personal Laws
    2. Persons
    3. Applicability of Presidential Decree No. 1083
    4. Marriage
    5. Prohibited Marriages
    6. Subsequent Marriages
    7. Batil and Fasid Marriages
    8. Rights and Obligations between Spouses
    9. Property Relations between Spouses
    10. Divorce
    11. Legitimacy, Children, and Adoption
    12. Support
    13. Parental Authority
    14. Custody and Guardianship
    15. Other Salient Provisions
    16. Selected Supreme Court Cases

  3. Succession, Wills/Adjudication, and Settlement of Estates

    Recorded weight: 35% of the whole exam
    1. Islamic Law of Succession and Inheritance
    2. Settlement and Partition of Estate
    3. Legal Succession
    4. Doctrines under Islamic Succession
    5. Successional Rights
    6. Testamentary Succession

  4. Procedure in the Shari'ah Courts

    Recorded weight: 15% of the whole exam
    1. History of Procedural Law in the Islamic Justice System
    2. Justice and Evidence Compared with Shari'ah Procedure in the Philippines
    3. General Principles and Shari'ah Courts
    4. Special Rules of Procedure Governing Shari'ah Courts
    5. Rules on Evidence
    6. Legal Writing and Legal Forms
    7. Civil Registry