The report concludes by describing the Prophet's approval of that ordered exercise of judgment. Its methodological significance is that disciplined reasoning, after proper regard for revealed texts, is not dismissed as inherently illegitimate.
Essential distinction: A jurist may be obliged to investigate, while an individual conclusion may remain open to error. The authority of a method is not the same as the infallibility of every use of it.
Jurists therefore examine the original case, its effective cause and its extension to the new case. Criticism of a particular analogy does not by itself negate analogy as a legal method.