Origins of Muḥammadan jurisprudence
Origins of Muhammadan Jurisprudence
Publisher
Oxford At The Clarendon Press
Publication Year
1950 AH
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Origins of Muḥammadan jurisprudence
Joseph SchachtOrigins of Muhammadan Jurisprudence
Publisher
Oxford At The Clarendon Press
Publication Year
1950 AH
FIRST HALF OF THE SECOND CENTURY A.H. 179
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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