RELIGST 2Q03 Lecture Notes - Nabidh, Qiyas, Sunnah

• School: McMaster University
• Department: Religious Studies
• Course: RELIGST 2Q03
• Professor: Liyakat Takim

Document Summary

Shafi"s main concern was the sunnah and primarily the hadith. New science came out ilm al-rijal (the transmitters of traditions) Trying to create a system where by we would know whether hadith were acceptable or not; If there is no particular solution to a particular problem in the qur"an or hadith; then. What shafi meant was consensus or agreement of the scholars. Shafi meant agreement of the scholars; but others said that it was agreement of the community. If community agreed on something this was binding. Seeking something in the middle": when muslims when to kufa; they drank something called nabidh, so muslims were not sure to drink or not; Nabidh was made out of grapes and was intoxicating! Common denominator: for example, if you go look for a kind of drug that is not covered in islam; Because of these shafi was known as a systematizer; putting islamic law;