Reliability Of Ijma And Tawatur
I think ijma should be stated in Ahadith, if something gets the status of ijma, and that thing is not in quran or Ahadith then this ijma is questionable or can be rejected, for example the covering of head, there is almost ijma on head covering but i think ghamidi sahib rejected it because it has no basis in Ahadith or quran, similarly the case of beard
As Faisal sb said “in a written record only one person is penning down established history” and once it’s penned down it’s secured, and people can go back and cross check it every time they need to know if something is correct or not. That’s what all of us are doing including the scholars. If we leave it and depend on just ijma and tawatur changes come as the years go by