> Lessons in Usool al-Fiqh and the Intermediate Aspects of the Shariah

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Lessons In Usool And Fiqh from Various Legal Schools of Jurisprudence

Most of the material addressed in this page is derived from the work of Ibn Rushd’s Bidayatul-Mujtahid wa Niyaatul-Muqtasid “The Diligent Beginning and the Thrifty End” which was a work whose primary focus was to mould the jurists in the field towards being specialists in the field of legal theory.

Takhreej by Yahya Ibraheem

Edited & Distributed by al-Mustaqeem Publications

• Introduction
• The Qur’anThe Meaning of Sunnah
• The Classifications of the Sunnah
• The Qur’an and Sunnah in the Time of the Prophet
• T’awil (Interpretation)
• Unclear Words
• Introduction to Bidayatul-Mujtahid of Ibn Rushd: Lessons on Istinbaat (extracting rulings)
• T’awil (interpretation) Part II
• Mutlaq and Muqayyid – Unspecified and Qualified
• Literal and Metaphorical
• Textual Implications Commands and Prohibitions
• Naskh (Abrogation) Part 1
• Nasikh Wa Mansookh (Abrogating and the Abrogated) Part II
• Ijma (Consensus)
• QIYAS (Analytical Deduction)
• Classifications of Qiyaas (Analytical Deductions)
• Istihsaan (Juristic Preference)
• Masaalih al-Mursalah (Public Interest)
• Istishab – Continuity of existence or Lack of
• Sadd ad-Dharai (Blocking the Means)
• Hukm Shar’i (Authority of Religious Rule)
• Hukm Taklifi (Defining Law)
• Hukm al-Wadi (Declaratory Law)
• Taa’rud (Conflict of Evidences)
• Ijtihaad (Ability of Deriving Law from the Sources of Legislation)
• Ikhtilaaf (Differences of Scholastic Opinion)