Authority of Qiyas and Five Conditions for Sound Analogy
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- What limits qiyas to its proper place among legal proofs?
- What distinguishes legal analogy from superficial resemblance?
- What is the farʿ in an analogy?
- What is the ruling of the original case?
- What does "ajtahidu bi-raʾyi" convey in the report about Muʿadh?
- How does authority of qiyas differ from validity of a particular qiyas?
- Which case functions as the original in the pilgrimage comparison?
- Which conclusion is not justified by the debt/pilgrimage comparison alone?
- What is the legally relevant link in the pilgrimage/debt example?
- What is the central reasoning in the report "Is it not part of his body?"?
- What standard did Ibn Masʿud use when no dower had been specified and the husband died?
- What does "neither diminution nor excess" teach regarding comparable dower?
- What does Ibn Masʿud’s recognition of possible error illustrate?
- How many conditions of sound qiyas are stated?
- What does the first condition, "not opposing a text," require?
- Which proposed cause is mistaken in comparing laughter and false accusation during prayer?
- What is the main methodological point of the loud-laughter example?
- What kind of inference is barred by the second validity condition?
- Which original ruling does the third condition exclude from analogy?
- Which statement correctly distinguishes ḥikmah from ʿillah?
- Why cannot a prescribed number in worship simply be altered by appeal to possible benefits?
- What does the fourth condition require of the effective cause?
- What does not necessarily follow when two acts share an ordinary label?
- What is meant by the fifth condition that the farʿ not be textually governed?
- A direct text governs a case but a proposed analogy gives the opposite result. What should prevail?
- The original rule is established but the cause is unproven in the new case. What follows?
- Qiyas may be used to contradict a superior, applicable text.
- Comparable dower was used as a relevant standard when no dower amount had been specified.
- Any plausible wisdom behind a legal ruling automatically becomes a transferable legal cause.
- If a valid text directly governs the new case, a conflicting analogy cannot displace it.