MUSTAFĪḌ REPORTS IN SHĀFIʿĪ LEGAL THEORY
Journal Title: Ankara Üniversitesi İlahiyat Fakültesi Dergisi - Year 2018, Vol 59, Issue 2
Abstract
It is generally accepted that the majority of the fuqahāʾ (legal experts), except for the Ḥanafī school, divide the reports from the Prophet, with regard to the number of transmitters, into two parts: al-mutawātir and al-āḥād. Ḥanafīs, on the other hand, accept, beside these two, a third category in between: al-mashhūr. However, contrary to this widely accepted view, we see that Shāfiʿī uṣūl al-fiqh (legal theory) tradition contains discussions about mustafīḍ reports along with al-mutawātir and al-āḥād. This study deals with discussions about the presence, acceptance and epistemological value of mustafīḍ reports in the Shāfiʿī legal theory. Furthermore, al-mustafīḍ’s similarity or dissimilarity to the Ḥanafīs’ al-mashhūr and its categorical relations with the mutawātir and āḥād reports will also be examined. We may argue that discussions of Shāfiʿī’s on mustafīḍ reports have eventually approximated their position to the Ḥanafīs’ tripartite division of reports and minimized the differences between the two schools.
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Davut Eşit
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