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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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    See it all connected

    Every question, evidence, narrator and scholar is one graph. Explore it.

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