Kuwait Court of Cassation principle number 104

Testimony. The general rule is that it must be direct. Testimony by common repute. Its admissibility in proving a husband's harm to his wife, whereby a witness testifies to something he did not personally perceive by sight or hearing, having heard it from a group whose collusion in falsehood is inconceivable, reports of it having reached him recurrently and his heart having accepted their truth. The reason for this. What is established by recurrent reports and what is perceived by the senses are equivalent. - Testimony by hearsay or hearsay testimony. It differs from testimony by common repute in the Sharia sense, and its source is the litigant himself in whose favor the testimony is given, and it is relayed from him. - 338 - Personal Status