Sunnah Tawatur And Ijma
So how do we know whether the source of eg the beard issue was the sunnah or actually the sunnah was noted down in the Hadith? And the same way I need to confirm my understanding or verify the meaning of a word from a dictionary sometimes as it’s obsolete can’t some actions of sunnah become obsolete and then to revive them the only way is to refer to old text? Because their reciprocation has been stopped or adulterated so we have to go back to old history books as it’s not with the same ijma and tawatur as it once was coming with supposedly
So how is this consensus of the past documented? Surely people don’t remember any chnages in the consensus