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How a ruling is derived
From a question to a graded answer — the path of uṣūl al-fiqh.
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What is a masʾala?
A masʾala is a single legal question scholars answer — and often differ on. Browse the questions.
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A worked example
Does touching the body break wuḍūʾ? See the competing positions, side by side, attributed to their schools.
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Where the evidence comes from
Each position rests on a proof — here, the hadith of Buṣra. Read the matn and its chain.
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Who carried it
A hadith is only as strong as its narrators. Meet Mālik — narrator, scholar, and school-founder at once.
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Why the strength differs
Return to the masʾala: see how tarjīḥ (weighing) and ijmāʿ (consensus) raise one position over another.
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