«حكمه: هو بمنزلة خبر الواحد، يوجب العمل دون العلم، ويكون مقدماً على القياس كخبر الواحد»
Its status resembles a solitary report: it obliges action without establishing certain knowledge, and is preferred to qiyas as such a report is.
The difference between requiring action and producing certainty matters. In this ranking a source can require practical compliance without occupying the highest level of conclusive knowledge.
Its priority over qiyas means that the ruling is not set aside merely for analogical deduction. The next chapter introduces qiyas and its conditions.