The opinion of the mujtahid and its effect on rulings

Abstract

This research deals with one of the things that afflict the human soul in levels of suspicion, and the third demand dealt with the focus of this research, which is the effect of suspicion on Islamic rulings. It was determined through this research that suspicion has multiple meanings through the use of this word in the Qur’an and Sunnah, and that what is meant by suspicion among jurists is what is less than certainty, so that the mujtahid is overcome by the correctness of what he went to, and by following perceiving things, which is suspicion and its relationship to deriving rulings, explaining the confusion that some people have fallen into as a result of their misunderstanding of the Qur’an’s use of this word, and how scholars of jurisprudence have employed it in deriving many jurisprudential rulings. This was through an introduction, three demands, and a conclusion. The first demand discussed the nature of suspicion and its types, while the second demand was about the the sources of jurisprudential rulings, it became clear that many jurisprudential rulings are based on suspicion. If we abandon this approach, many jurisprudential rulings that were built on the preponderance of suspicion would be lost.