Hassan Ilyas Sahabs Post On Tawatur
If a faqeeh disagrees with another faqeeh, it’s stated in their books and the different fiqhs are followed by many people of the time. Khabar-e-wahid is something entirely different where a few people are relating their understanding of an incident.
Read the history of islamic fiqh: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fiqh?wprov=sfti1
This is not where i have a confusion. Figh is not necessarily based on ijma n tawature. Take for example Muwatta Imam Malik. The whole fiqha is based on ahadiths – khaber e wahid. Apparently they did not follow the principle of ijma n tawatur. Similarly there is a famous sayings from Imam Abu Hanifa, to ‘discard his view if one finds a hadith against it. This indicates they compiled the deen based on ahadith and some kiyas and not tawatur. Their views become the mainstream practice (so called ‘tawatur’) after the state enacted them as the law of the land and therefore it does not help verify ijma n tawatur that can be linked to what prophet SA gave us. In fact fiqha broke the ijma n tawtur that was being practiced during the first 100 years. After that deen was ‘corrected’ based on ahadiths.
Finally we are on the same page There is a story for everything – even Quran got stories that we reject for their conflict with the mainstream. Why would anyone trust my story re Malaysia? Only a State or an influencer (e.g a prophet or imam) can make a dent in tawatur. Like Saudi’s changed the pratice to wahabism in early 19th century and now everyone does rafa yadan as ijma n tawatur. So my point is the state has been using fiqha to ‘correct’ deen since the pre historical time – it was the state who decided on the official version of Quran and destroyed other variants. The first 100 yrs after Prophet Mohammad SA was an undocumented era. We have no reliable record of state of affairs during that period. After that fiqha was rolled out in the muslim world that lost us the ijma and tawatur coming from the source of deen. I am not saying everything was changed but it did change a bit. At least the line between religion and culture was intermingled and many things become far more important than before.