Colleges

Course Topics:
First: An introduction to the reality of legal evidence, its divisions, and its characteristics
1 – The Guide: Its Definition and Distinguishing It from Related Terms
2 – Divisions of Evidence with Multiple Considerations. .
The difference between the evidence for the validity of legal rulings and the evidence for their occurrence
4 - Characteristics of evidential traditions from the Quran and Sunnah, their status, and their stance on reason.
Second: The First Proof: The Holy Quran
1. Definition of the Holy Quran according to Ahl al-Sunnah
2 – Characteristics of the Holy Quran
3 – Is there any non-Arabic word in the Quran?
4 – Does the Quran contain figurative language?
5 – Quranic Readings: Their Types, Conditions, and the Ruling on Using Aberrant Readings and Their Impact on Jurisprudential Applications. .
6. The reality of the unequivocal and ambiguous verses in the Holy Qur'an, their types, the stance of the Salaf concerning the ambiguous verses, and the impact of deviation therein, with application through authentic examples. .
Third: The Second Proof: The Prophetic Sunnah
1 – Definition of Sunnah, its divisions, and the distinction between the methodologies of the Usuliyyun and the Hadith scholars
2 - The Authority of the Sunnah and a Refutation of the Doubts of Its Deniers
3 – The Relationship between the Sunnah and the Quran. .
Does the Sunnah have legislative authority?
5- The Actions of the Prophet, peace be upon him: Their categories, the evidentiary status of each category, with examples. .
6 – Introduction to the news, its divisions, and distinguishing between them
7 - Mutawatir Hadith: Its Conditions, Types, Examples, its Yielding of Certainty, and the Ruling on Acting Upon It
8 - Ahaad Hadith: Its conferring of certainty or conjecture, and its worship in intellect and law: Proofs for its authentication and refutation of opponents' doubts.
9 – Conditions of acting upon Ahad Hadith, those agreed upon and those disagreed upon, in summary
10 – Introduction to the Novel and Differentiating It from Similar Genres
11. Conditions for an acceptable narrator
12 - The ruling on acting upon isolated hadith concerning matters of widespread public concern, and its jurisprudential effect
13 – Introduction to Jarh and Ta'deel, and Related Principles in Brief
14 – The Justice of the Companions (May Allah be pleased with them)
15 – Ranks and Methods of Narrating the Prophetic Hadith
16 - Narrating Hadith with Meaning
17 – Definition of a mursal hadith, its types, ruling on using each type as proof, along with its jurisprudential impact
Fourth: The reality of abrogation, and its most important issues:
1 – The reality of abrogation and the difference between it and specification.
2 – The Legitimate Purpose of Abrogating Some Rulings.
3. What is abrogated and what is not.
4 - License to copy its occurrence between laws, in rulings, and a response to its deniers.
5 – Agreed and Disputed Conditions of Copying.
6 – Copy the command before executing it.
7 – Is adding to a text considered copying, and what is its jurisprudential impact?.
8 – Types of Copying Based on Multiple Considerations and the Ruling on Each Type, with Examples. .
9 – Copying the Quran by Tradition, and its examples.
10 – The Sunnah and the Quran: Examples of Abrogation and their Cases.
11 – The نسخ of consensus, analogy, and understanding, and their نسخ with it.
12 - Ways to Identify Copies with Examples.