Tawatur Not Recorded
But we don’t know that the ijma and tawattur was there in the first century- we have no way to prove that
Doesn’t depend on books but checked the same way language is checked through dictionary; none of this activity challenges the independent existence of language itself or makes it dependable on dictionary.
We don’t, but at the same time we have the best possible mode of transmission that could’ve had been made available for transmission of religion ( especially when seen in comparison to other modes of transmission ).
You’re assuming when there is a break in the chain, even when this happens, those words and their old usage can be traced back. We not just know the archaic words, we also know the obsolete words. Because humans always find a way to preserve and transmit their knowledge (that is why it is called historic era and differentiated from pre-historic era) especially for something as perpetual and important as language. This is all assuming there was a break of chain in transmission, but no such break of chain ever happened in religious tawatur and all the evidence of tracing back, tawatur, Ijma of 1300 years (for your satisfaction) proves no such break. Therefore, scientifically speaking, all this evidence takes us to the level of almost virtual certainty that this has all been intact, preserved and being practiced since the first day. To disprove this, something more concrete and more convincing than this evidence needs to be presented by critics.