and the discussion on it. However, he concluded at the end that a neighbor does not have the right to prevent his neighbor from placing [an object], as he said (pp. 796-797): "Thus, by proceeding with what he was forbidden by Allāh to do, he is disobedient to Allāh and opposing the prohibition of His Prophet (ṣallá Allāhu ʿalayhi wa-sallam), without it being a right of the neighbor to prevent him, which obligates the judges to rule in favor of the one preventing, whether the one preventing likes it or not." I say: What Imām al-Ṭabarī concluded is correct, if Allāh wills, except for what he mentioned regarding the judges. I believe that should be left to the sharīʿah court to judge according to the circumstances and the time, as the situation has reached an unbearable level of selfishness and authoritarianism, and the prevention of mutual benefit, due to man-made laws based on material interests rather than moral principles. A trustworthy person told me that when he prepared to build his house on his land, he placed building materials on a barren land beside him, and the owner prevented him from doing so. The law supported the owner, and he could not continue building until he paid this greedy oppressor some dinars to silence him and drop the lawsuit he had filed against the builder! Even though he is one of the wealthy, and Allāh has spoken the truth: "No! Indeed, man transgresses because he sees himself self-sufficient" (Sūrah al-ʿAlaq, verse 6-7). Nothing benefits such a tyrant except what the Anṣār did in a similar case, as narrated by al-Bayhaqī in his "Sunan" (6/69) through the route of Isḥāq ibn Ibrāhīm al-Ḥanẓalī with a sound isnād to Yaḥyá ibn Jaʿdah—a trustworthy Tābiʿī—who said: A man in Medina wanted to place a beam on his neighbor's wall without his permission, and he was prevented. Then, whoever you wished from the Anṣār would narrate from the Messenger of Allāh that he prohibited him from preventing it, so he was compelled to allow it. In the chain to Isḥāq—who is Ibn Rāhwayh—there is Shaykh al-Bayhaqī Abū ʿAbd al-Raḥmān al-Sulamī, and there is much discussion about him. If he was followed up, then the report is authentic, which appears to be the case from the actions of..