ENACTMENT NO. 12 OF 1994 SYARIAH COURT EVIDENCE ENACTMENT 1994
PART I - RELEVANCY CHAPTER 2 - QARINAH
Section 9. Facts necessary to explain or introduce relevant fact.
Facts necessary to explain or introduce a fact in issue or relevant fact, or which support or rebut an inference suggested by a fact in issue or relevant fact, or which establish the indentity of any thing or person whose indentity is relevant, or fix the time or place at which any fact in issue or relevant fact happened, or which show the relation of parties by whom any such fact was transacted, are qarinah so far as they are necessary for that purpose.
ILLUSTRATIONS
(a) The question is whether a given document is the will of A.
The state of A's property and of his family at the date of the alleged will may be qarinah.
(b) A is accused of a crime.
The fact that soon after the commission of the crime A absconded from his house is qarinah under section 8 as conduct subsequent to and affected by facts in issue.
The fact at the time when he left home he had sudden and urgent business at the place to which he went is qarinah as tending to explain the fact that he left home suddenly.