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Fiqh

فقه

إجماع

Ijmāʿ

Definition

Consensus of the qualified scholars of the Ummah on a ruling — a binding source when proven.

Example

The five daily prayers and the amounts of zakāh are established by Qur'an, sunnah and ijmāʿ.

See also

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Qiyās

Analogy — extending a ruling from a textual case to a new case that shares the same ʿillah (legal cause).

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Ijtihād

The qualified scholar's effort to derive a ruling from the sources when no clear text is available.

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