An Introduction to the Study of Mahomedan Law 1931

This is supposed to be the special characteristic of Hanafi Law ; it allows the Imam the founder of the school to exercise his faculty of reasoning and to deduce principles in consonance with the word of God and the actions and the words of His Prophet and these rules therefore have the force of law.3 Then if we examine the last line of the definition ' about which the learned have agreed ' [...] The Usul literally the Roots' of the Law and the Pun` the Branches of the Law. [...] The next period of great significance from the point of view of the law is the period A. H. 10 to 40 that is to say the thirty years of the orthodox Khilafat the Khilafat (Caliphate) of the first four Caliphs or successors of the Prophet. [...] The two things which we have to remember about this period are the close adherence to the practice that is the Sunnat of the Prophet and secondly the colletion and the editing of the text of the Qur'an the final recension of which took place in the reign of `Uthman the third Caliph. [...] The term Shi`a by itself means ' party ' and being an abbreviation of the term Shi'at 'Ali it means specifically that party which after the death of the Prophet attached itself to Ali the son-in-law of the Prophet cosidering him the successor of the Prophet both in temporal and in religious matters and denying the rightful succession of the first three Caliphs.' Out of 250 million adher