Al-Sayyid Al-Allamah Al-Hujjah Muhammad ibn ‘Abdullah Awad al-Mu’ayyidi May Allah preserve him

A question was asked concerning the criticism of the Commander of the Faithful Imam ‘Alī (Peace be Upon Him) toward governors, where judges rule in a single case with different judgments, yet the governor approves all of them, while their...

Question: Is the ignorant person who follows, in his religion, scholars who are in error — whether from the Companions or others — excused due to his good intention and his seeking, by following them, the pleasure and forgiveness of...

Question: What is the evidence that disagreement in subsidiary ijtihād-based issues is permissible?

Question: Are the sciences of Ma‘ānī and Bayān necessary for ijtihād? Clarify this for us, even with some examples, may Allah reward you well.

Question: How can we know the abrogating text from the abrogated one if there is no explicit indication of it in a text from the Book, the Sunnah, or consensus, and the date of its revelation is not known? Is...

Question: We hear that so-and-so was granted authorization by such-and-such a scholar. What does authorization mean? Is it like a testimony that the one authorized is qualified to issue legal verdicts, or does it have another meaning?

Question: We found problematic the statement of the author of al-Fuṣūl: “It is forbidden to be lenient regarding ḥadīths of virtues and the like without clarifying their weakness or falsity,” etc.

Question: The scholars of uṣūl have said: the report of a single narrator does not yield more than presumption, so it is not acted upon except in subsidiary matters; and matters such as the obligation of prayer and the like—among...

Question: Is it valid that a ḥadīth, in the early eras, be mutawātir and known, then in later eras become āḥād and presumptive?

Question: It is said that the indication of apparent meanings is not definitive; therefore, one who opposes the apparent meanings of the Qur’an and the mass-transmitted Sunnah is not judged to be immoral (fāsiq). This is despite knowing that most...