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What Is Ijma According To Javed Ahmed Ghamidi'S Understanding?
The classical scholars had different views over what ijma is. It seems as if there was no ijma on the definition of ijma itself.
Malik ibn Anas held the view that the religiously binding consensus was only the consensus of Muhammad’s companions and the direct successors of those companions in the city of Medina.[11]
According to Iraqi academic Majid Khadduri, Al-Shafi’i held the view that religiously binding consensus had to include all of the Muslim community in every part of the world, both the religiously learned and the layman.[12][13] Thus, if even one individual out of millions would hold a differing view, then consensus would not have been reached. In an attempt to define consensus in a form which was more likely to ever occur, Al-Ghazali expanding on al-Shafi’i’s definition to define consensus as including all of the Muslim community in regard to religious principles and restricting the meaning to only the religiously learned in regard to finer details.[14]Abu Hanifa, Ahmad ibn Hanbal and Dawud al-Zahiri, on the other hand, considered this consensus to only include the companions of Muhammad, excluding all generations which followed them, in Medina and elsewhere.[15][16]
Views within Sunni Islam branched off even further in later generations, with Abu Bakr Al Jassas, a hanafi scholar, defining even a simple majority view as constituting consensus and Ibn Taymiyyah restricting consensus to the view of the religiously learned only.[16] Muhammad ibn Jarir al-Tabari’s position was not entirely clear, as modern scholarship has attributed to him both the view that consensus means a simple majority,[16] and that it means only the consensus of the companions of Muhammad.[17]
According to Ahmad Hasan, the majority view is split between two possibilities: that religiously binding consensus is the consensus of the entire Muslim community, or that religiously binding consensus is just the consensus of the religiously learned.[18]
The names of two kinds of consensus are:
ijma al-ummah – a whole community consensus.ijma al-aimmah – a consensus by religious authorities.[19]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ijma
What is the definition of ijma according to Ustadh Javed Ahmed Ghamidi’s understanding?
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