Restoring the Prophet's Authority, Rejecting Taglid Ibn Hazm's “Epistle xo the One Who Shouts from Afar" Coie Adeng Sometime in the fis a of dhe eleventh century ow schol wee ‘ited fom the Grew Monge in Cordoba, where hey had been ace Inglaw roan ee gromingmambec of mde from meng he common ope Theoret was sed bythe own inspector ofthe Andalusian ‘apt ierhe bad eee complains fom mero the Malis te Highs exablhment. The wo schol were obiden co held father sessions ort sue Basin the morgue Sever of thei tadens were ube mired or fen et ops, otha chirp dy ‘ices son dibandd, Hisham Ia Mea the it ofthe Uneyad faliphs of a-Andslas who had been peioned by Male eligi Sehola,aed the dessin! 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Only someone mho dd nat ave they tosearch he serge Independedy wisallowed tocol ely lane schol, wh ad to garanice har is aie would be eles bed onthe Quran and deka Tse sed sores ee nro bebjecde ney ‘tion morover beast God Hinslf snnounced inthe Qe an that Hi revelation wis tought o Mahara in a dea: Abie ong” (Qa6:i9s andar "xplening everything” (Q683) 0 needed a ther anal Ths one mast imi oes tothe nea seh cai ofthewst—hence the nanecf he shoe. “Tet on the woe tera ndervandng of the sced sire ed he Zahtsto eryimeresing fen ly onic and nt dom ‘ronal ipl opinions darn only trad che cone dh che ‘Malis ber onslnc ro tlle he ind of clas of Mani oday. Tantei opinion eek "Toy Ine preted your lion Frou, completed My bling upon you (Qs indeed athe el {fom of lm had rected perc orm daring ery Hine of the Prope and chs war nor be tanpered with, Wha bad been obit den by God and His rophe ws fbiden fret creeyones a had ben preerie by shemwa binding freer td on everyone ane ‘olga scolar had he ght dele what had been biden (Cabot dele frien what God had allowed lr) witht 2 cearindeation in he scp that hi was cle fo, Lies fo Biden wa resting esp oflef an oily gener ‘ue and generalising the appleby of laws en nga eid natre om the Zahic pott ofview whateves Gd an it Messenger fad noc exes probed was lowe, sd what they ha ot ley Imposed wate wo one dicen” Jaspers whe chose thee fandamenals were eying he ight path and dng re ‘who fallowed ice footeps down wih then. ‘A further carci tne ofthe Zab cool wa tha the only ‘ald consenss tobe followed was not tha ef the sha of Medina ‘he Mak caned bu at of he pes anesers aly adept ‘Recomenois ofthe Proper Companion tro teen th aged wich he Prophet eichigs and cons The opnons occurs ‘Finividal Compania or Folower er slon et shila (haa Resring Pipe Aubry, Rjeting Tad s dno value whatoerer if they di ot coincide with he phew ‘eran ot pratt isthe op, the, who ithe explo al fm behave, hee views had reaching consequeersor thee hotahip beeen he Zaki of aAndahs a cher Mali pes, "Whereas on Mati tok hisnacom hard and tres om pao lee fwch id noe howe, aap the Malik fom Sassi him). 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