Mawaddah: Jurnal Hukum Keluarga Islam
##issue.vol## 4 ##issue.no## 2 (2026): November

Digital Asset Based Prenuptial Agreements: Reconstructing Crypto Asset Regulation Through Qawāʿid Al-Fiqhiyyah

Eko Pratama Putra (Universitas Islam Negeri Sultan Maulana Hasanuddin Banten)
Yuslina Yuslina (Universitas Islam Negeri Sultan Maulana Hasanuddin Banten)
Efendi Sugianto (Universitas Pertiba Pangkalpinang, Indonesia)
Aspandi Aspandi (Universitas Islam Negeri Sultan Maulana Hasanuddin Banten)
Wazin Wazin (Universitas Islam Negeri Sultan Maulana Hasanuddin Banten)
Husain Husain (Sekolah Tinggi Agama Islam Negeri Majene)



Article Info

Publish Date
23 Oct 2026

Abstract

This article reconstructs the regulation of crypto assets in Indonesian Muslim marital property through a structured application of qawāʿid al-fiqhiyyah. It argues that economic value does not establish ownership, joint-property status, contractual validity, or Sharia permissibility. A normative legal method combines statutory interpretation, conceptual distinctions, comparative materials, and a sequence linking identified risks to relevant maxims, limiting rules, and contractual consequences. The analysis distinguishes five questions: asset status, lawful entitlement, marital classification, contractual authority, and the permissibility of the particular asset and transaction. Indonesian law already accommodates intangible joint property; the problem concerns specification, evidence, governance, and implementation rather than an absolute legal vacuum. Islamic legal maxims generate duties of disclosure, preservation, accountable management, and differentiated risk allocation, while maqāṣid al-sharīʿah evaluates their effects on wealth protection and family obligations. The resulting normative model contains operational clauses on asset schedules, tracing, consent, secure access, ordinary losses, misconduct, valuation, dissolution, and third-party safeguards. Its application to hypothetical cases demonstrates that private-key control cannot displace marital entitlement and that an agreement cannot validate prohibited investment. The proposed model is a doctrinal design for adaptation to individual circumstances, not an empirically validated instrument or a general fatwa approving cryptocurrency.

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Journal Info

Abbrev

mawaddah

Publisher

Subject

Religion Law, Crime, Criminology & Criminal Justice

Description

Mawaddah: Journal of Islamic Family Law, an electronic journal that provides a forum for publishing research articles, literature reviews, field research and or book reviews on Islamic family law. The scope is as follows: 1. Marriage 2. Divorce 3. Joint Property 4. Child Custody 5. Inheritance 6. ...