Religion and Theology

Traditionist fiqh scholars maintain the inference of Islamic law from the Hadith.  This premise stresses further the importance of taqlid (imitation) as a keystone in the interpretation and exposition of Islamic law.  This influence extends to the underlying principles that establish the doctrines of the Usulis.

It is imperative with traditionist fiqh to rely with strong assimilation on the scholars who took the task of establishing intellectual principles of general application.  Traditionist fiqh scholars proposed that Islamic law be inferred from hadith, reports of what the Prophet, his leading Companions, and the Followers had said or done, without significant resort to reason.  Contradictions among hadith reports they either resolved by means of isnd comparison or simply let stand, refusing to define the law by their own preferences   In the later ninth century, rationalistic jurisprudents took up many of the forms formerly peculiar to the traditionist-jurisprudents, especially formal dependence on hadith and isnd comparison to sort the sound from the unsound. Traditionist-jurisprudents in turn accepted the need for separate expertise in legal reasoning besides hadith criticism.  (Melchert, 2001, p.1)
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