A Review on Sayyid Murtada’s and Ibn-i Idris’s Views about Acting in Accordance with the Reasons of Deduction

There is a need to appealing to reasons in order to make deductions about the religious regulations. Through the history, various principles have been proposed by the Shiite and Sunnite jurists to this end. Some scholars including Ibn-i Idris and Sayyid Murtada have suggested specific principles in this regard, based on which only the reasons are credible for making deductions and arrive at certainty. They believe that the real good is the result of certainty and the permission of uncertain acts imply the permission of acting in accordance with unjust regulations, which is not reasonable. Consequently judicial reasoning by analogy is not appropriate; because deciding about the secondary cases based on analogy with the primary cases results in uncertainty and is accompanied with the possibility of inappropriateness. Acting in accordance with analogy and isolated traditions has been prohibited in Sayyid Murtada’s and Ibn-i Idris’s fiqh books. For them, analogy and isolated traditions are invalid; meanwhile, the Qur’an, widely-transmitted traditions, consensus, reasoning and common conventions are valid sources.

Keywords: Ibn-i Idris, Sayyid Murtada, uncertainties, decisive reasons

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* Associate professor, Yasouj University

** M.A. in fiqh and the principles of Islamic law