This article discusses the footsteps of the maharaja Imam
Muhammad Basiuni Imran in the application of Islamic law in
Sambas, West Kalimantan. Muhammad Basiuni Imran is a
charismatic cleric from Sambas with qualified religious
knowledge who has several works that are recognized by the
Islamic world in reference to Islamic law and has many
teachers, one of which is Rasḫid Rihda, a middle eastern cleric
who is very famous for his knowledge of legal reform and works
he became a reference for world Islamic scholars, especially
scholars of the Indonesian archipelago. The focus of this
research is how Muhammad Basiuni Imran as the head of the
sharī’ah court office in the application of Islamic law in
Sambas, West Kalimantan? While the method in this study usesa descriptive qualitative type and the nature of the research is
literature. While the approach in this study is to use a historical
approach. The findings in this study in the application of
Islamic law Muhammad Basiuni Imran were faced with the
problem of friday prayer law of less than 40 people, disputes
about talkins in society, debates on the issue of marriage faskḥ,
developing the concept of masḫlahāh mursālah, the application
of the concept of al-Tahāluf al-siyasi and the application of the
concept of tadārruj