Ijma And Tawatur In The Context Of Wuzu And Acts Which Nullify It
I think we can say some aspects of amali tawatur are more easily lost. Like no one will start doing three sajdas instead of two but little things like placing hands or sitting in a specific way perhaps could be changed
Last part doesn’t always have to be true. The same way people nowadays ‘learn a new sunnah from ahadith’ it could probably be accepted in that time with no backlash. The same way castles of thought like fiqh and kalaam were built on ahadith and the masses accepted it no problem. Also the masses are not in control. The state is. They could’ve very easily destroyed all records of any disagreement. And anyway- the masses have to follow the state so if they choose a particular method (eg taking sunnah from ahad) the masses will simply accept it
OK! I’ve increased it a bit. But the point you just mentioned, the ijma of ilm again negates that. Because despite all the disagreements, there has never been any disagreement on the former category of Sunnah and its status as being equal to Quran ( not even among the scholars holding extreme discord against each other ).
This actually negates the notion of your akhbar-i-ahad narrative. Imam Malik also gives preference to ijma and tawatur, but more preference to ijma and tawatur of Medina, which doesn’t change the former category of Sunnah.