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Origins of Muḥammadan jurisprudence

Origins of Muhammadan Jurisprudence

Publisher

Oxford At The Clarendon Press

Publication Year

1950 AH

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certainly not a representative of the ancient Medinese school of law, but beyond this his personality remains vague,1 and the bulk of the traditions which go under his name must be credited to anonymous traditionists in the first half of the second century A.H.

1 In Mud. iii. 8, Nāfi‘ is asked his opinion on the question whether one ought to lay waste enemy country; but his alleged answer is shown as spurious by the development of doctrine on this point since Umaiyad times (see above, p. 144 f., and below, p. 204 f.). Occasionally, remarks of Nāfi‘ appear appended to his traditions, but none of them seems to be authentic.

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