7 Aug 2026, 11:55 UTC54 views10 reactionsread 11 August 2026 ”There is no ijma’ on what ijma’ is”
The mainstream Sunni usuliyin broadly accepted ijma as an authoritative proof. But once they tried to define exactly what ijma is, who participates in it, how agreement is established, when it becomes binding, and how we know it actually occurred, major disagreements appeared.
Even the definitions differ.
Ibn Qudamah defines ijma as:
ومعنى الإجماع في الشرع اتفاق علماء العصر من …
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6 Aug 2026, 23:18 UTC224 views11 reactionsread 11 August 2026 Photo
❝Five books which, if you devote yourself to them, will benefit you greatly in understanding the principles of the Shari'ah, its foundations, its rulings and its objectives, and will give you a strong ability to properly understand what comes from Allah and His Messenger ﷺ:
- al-Risalah by al-Shafi'i
- al-Qawa'id al-Nuraniyyah by Ibn Taymiyyah
- I'lam al-Muwaqqi'in by Ibn al-Qayyim
- al-Muwafaqat by al-Shatibi
- al-…
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5 Aug 2026, 23:37 UTC81 views11 reactionsread 11 August 2026 Posted without readable text
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4 Aug 2026, 23:30 UTC103 views5 reactionsread 11 August 2026 The Methodology of Imam Ibn Hazm in Hadith Criticism
The following points summarise the defining features of Imam Ibn Hazm's methodology in taʿlil al-ahadith (identifying defects in hadith), based on the inductive study of Badr al-ʿUmrani al-Tanji and as presented by Sh. Mahir ibn Yasin al-Fahl. They also provide a useful overview of how Ibn Hazm's approach compares with the broader methodology of the Andalusian and…
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4 Aug 2026, 15:01 UTC87 views4 reactionsread 11 August 2026 Classical Islamic Scholarship on Hadiths and Reports that Contradict Reason
Imam al-Khatib al-Baghdadi (d. 463 AH) said:
وَلَا يُقْبَلُ خَبَرُ الْوَاحِدِ فِي مُنَافَاةِ حُكْمِ الْعَقْلِ، وَحُكْمِ الْقُرْآنِ الثَّابِتِ الْمُحْكَمِ، وَالسُّنَّةِ الْمَعْلُومَةِ، وَالْفِعْلِ الْجَارِي مَجْرَى السُّنَّةِ، وَكُلِّ دَلِيلٍ مَقْطُوعٍ بِهِ، وَإِنَّمَا يُقْبَلُ بِهِ فِيمَا لَا يُقْطَعُ بِهِ، مِمَّا يَجُوزُ وُرُودُ التَّعَبُّد…
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3 Aug 2026, 20:29 UTC106 views7 reactionsread 11 August 2026 Photo
One thing that stood out is that the whole mutawatir vs ahad framework doesn't seem to have originally come from the hadith scholars themselves. And any critical thinking and advances student of hadith would also reach such a conclusion. Sh. Suheil Laher argues that the concept of tawatur was likely taken up by the Arabic philosophers, probably through the Greek empiricists, either directly or via the Mu'tazilah. At …
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3 Aug 2026, 03:20 UTC118 views5 reactionsread 11 August 2026 Ease Is a Foundational Principle of Sacred Law
❝Ease (taysir) is one of the foundational principles of the Shari'ah.
For example, when we say that the basic principle in mu'amalat is permission, this is one of the greatest manifestations of ease. Any new transaction—whether economic, administrative, political, or otherwise—is presumed to be permissible. We do not need a specific Shar'i text to establish its permiss…
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2 Aug 2026, 12:57 UTC106 views6 reactionsread 11 August 2026 Imam Ibn Qayyim al-Jawziyyah (may Allah be pleased with him) said:
"الرسل صلوات الله وسلامه عليهم لم يخبروا بما تحيله العقول وتقطع باستحالته ، بل أخبارهم قسمان:
أحدهما : ما تشهد به العقول والفطر .
الثاني: ما لا تدركه العقول بمجردها ، كالغيوب التي أخبروا بها عن تفاصيل البرزخ واليوم الآخر وتفاصيل الثواب والعقاب ، ولا يكون خبرهم محالا في العقول أصلا ، وكل خبر يظن أن العقل يحيله ، فلا يخلو من أحد أمرين : إما أن يكون الخ…
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2 Aug 2026, 02:29 UTC127 views5 reactionsread 11 August 2026 Sh. Ahmad Ma'bad Abdul Karim - The Science of 'Ilal al-Hadith: A Means of Protecting the Sunnah or a Door to Doubt? (Personal Notes)
https://youtu.be/jjOE2DeP3Rs?si=qhYzRLmwPpUU5RLw
Introduction to the Science of 'Ilal (0:00 - 5:53)
The moderator introduces 'Ilal al-Hadith (finding the hidden defects of hadith) as one of the most advanced sciences of hadith. It investigates hidden reasons that affect whether a hadit…
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1 Aug 2026, 15:01 UTC107 views5 reactionsread 11 August 2026 Why Didn't Ibn Taymiyyah and Ibn al-Qayyim Write a Book on Usul al-Fiqh?
❝There is a particular approach that I want to discuss, namely the approach of critical analysis and revision (naqd and tashih). The leading figures of this approach are Shaykh al-Islam Ibn Taymiyyah and his student Ibn al-Qayyim.
Neither Ibn Taymiyyah nor Ibn al-Qayyim wrote a dedicated book on Usul al-Fiqh.
As for al-Musawwadah, Ibn Taymiyy…
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31 Jul 2026, 18:41 UTC112 views4 reactionsread 11 August 2026 That project served an important purpose. It gave students a curriculum, muftis a dependable framework and judges a practical reference point. The later codification answered real institutional needs.
At the same time, practical codification shouldn't be confused with the complete intellectual history of the school.
- The later manuals generally tell us what the madhhab settled upon.
- The earlier literature often …
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31 Jul 2026, 18:41 UTC100 views7 reactionsread 11 August 2026 Reflections on Reducing the Hanbali Madhhab to Its Later Mu'tamad
I was genuinely pleased to have come across that previous section or clip from Sh. Yusuf al-Ghafis's lesson in al-Masjid al-Nabawi. It touched on something I've been thinking about for quite a while. Many students today seem to encounter the Hanbali madhhab almost entirely through its later codification. The school becomes al-Iqna, Muntaha al-Iradat, …
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