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The above list of contents follows Khadduri's translation. However, Khadduri rearranged the treatise in two places. Khadduri's chapters 8 and 3 (in that order) both follow Shafi'i's chapter on Traditions in the original. Khadduri rearranged those chapters because they did "not appear to fit into the
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On the question of consensus, Shafi'i obligated affirmation of all living Muslims - both the learned and the laymen - in order to declare a true consensus. Later followers of his school considered this to be practically impossible, and thus expanded upon the definition.
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logical order of the book." Therefore, if one wishes to read Khadduri's translation while following Shafi'i's original arrangement, one can read the chapters in the following order: 1, 2, 4, 5, 6, 7, 9, 8, 3, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15.
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in Arabic means a "message" or "letter". Shafi'i's treatise received its name owing to a traditional, though unverified, story that Shafi'i composed the work in response to a request from a leading
17: 325: 114:, though this division based on four has been attributed to later commentators on the work rather than to Shafi'i himself. 77: 95:, ‘Abd al-Raḥmān bin Mahdī; the story goes that Ibn Mahdī wanted Shafi'i to explain the legal significance of the 310: 234: 259:"Does Shafi'i Have a Theory of 'Four Sources' of Law?, taken from the PhD dissertation of Joseph E. Lowry, 264: 330: 33: 42: 320: 8: 315: 144:
On the Nature of God's Orders of Prohibition and the Prophet's Orders of Prohibition
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The Legal-Theoretical Content of the Risala of Muhammad B. Idris al-Shafi'i
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In this work, al-Shafi'i is said to have outlined four sources of
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The primary sources of law attributed to Shafi'is book are the
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On the Obligation of Man to Accept the Authority of the Prophet
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Al-Risala (al-Shafiʽi book)
Al-Risalah (Ibn Abi Zayd)
Risala (disambiguation)
al-Shafi'i
Arabic
Islamic jurisprudence
principles of Islamic jurisprudence
traditionist
Basra
Quran
sunna
Islamic law
Ikhtilaf
Qur'an
prophetic tradition
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