[1] The ruling Taliban has maintained a strict Hanafi-only approach, ignoring enumeration of international rights, that bears greater similarity to Iran and its "Ja'fari only" jurisprudential stance than countries like Pakistan which follow a non-exclusive parliamentary approach to Islamic law.
The supreme law of the land is currently Sharia however there is complex legislation that stems from different historical periods.
For instance, the so-called four volumes of civil law were developed on the basis of Egyptian models and promulgated in the time of the monarchy.
The cessation stage could also have been deliberated with two or more participant judges, applying the constitution and laws of the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan.
The Amir al-Mu'minin (Supreme Leader) now directly appoints judiciary with the title of Shaykh, Mufti and Maulvi that suggest knowledge of prophetic tradition, Madrassa training and qualification to issue answers in Islamic law according to the Hanafi school.