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Muhammad Ibn Ali al-Shawkani lived in Yemen between the years of 1173 (1760 AH) and 1250 (1834 AH). Through his childhood he received education from both leading scholars and his father in the form of Zaidi method, which was dominant in his homeland. He had received commendation from his peers even before he finished his education. While continuing his own education, he had already become a teacher. In his twenties he started giving fatwa to the questions addressed to him, resulting him being a famous mufti. Alongside giving fatwa and teaching others he has authored a great number of books. Before he was thirty years old, he had left Zaidi school and claimed himself as a Mutlaq Mujtahid. Dedicating himself solely to scholarship, fatwa and authoring he became Head Qadi of Yemen. He stayed in this title until his death and played important roles in the affairs of state. Shawkani refused taqlid and supported the idea of continuous ijtihad. In almost every piece of work he has done, he accused members of schools of putting their school's masters in front of Allah and his Prophet. Aim of this study is analyzing Shawkani's ideas in the light of musarrah hadith and the conclusions driven from them, which is an important part of muamalat. The main focus of this study is musarrah hadith. The word of musarrah comes from cattle which isn't milked for a time in order to make them look like full of milk and therefore appealing to the customers. In hadith it is told the one who bought such a cow is allowed to back out from the trade deal because he's deceived. Even though they dispute about the details of the hadith, all three schools, except Hanafi agree to act according to this hadith and they call these kind of permissions "right of rescind". [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]