Uṣūl al-Fiqh (The Legal Evidences)

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...