Re: Understanding Fiq'ha : Concept, validity, reasoning
Its is interesting to note that...there are 1,15,000 sahabas which are muhadiseen.....which give atleast one hadees of prophe(pbuh)....
but surprisingly ..there are .....only 110 fuqhas among all the tens of thousans of sahabas......
and out of 110....there are only 7 or 8 sahabas which are considered as the ...Imam ul Fuqhas ....
they are
* ali
* umar
*abdullah ibne masood
* muaz bin jabbal
*abdullah ibne umar
* aisha
*abdullah ibne abbas..
all above 7 ..are considered as "authentic" in any fiqah issues./...people used to to solve fiqah problems from them........
Imam Abu Hanifa chief teacher was Imam Shaibi...one of the greatest scholar of quran and fiqah..and all great historians reported trhat..Imam Shaibi was Tabai...but sahabas used to sit with respect in front of him...to gain knowledge of fiqah.......in front of Tabai..it is said that Imam Shaibi ...learnt ahadees from 500 sahabas.....
In damasqus....many great and older age ansari and qureshi sahabas ..used to sit ..in front of a young..beautiful ...man...with great respcet ..as they are sitting in front of a very graet scholar....the teacher was very young ...but sahabas in front ofhim were very experienced...very pious ..having many virtues and merits.....but they used to sit in front of that young man...who was master in knowledge of fiqah...
the name of this young man was Muaz Bin jabal Ansari.....the governor of Yemen nominated by prophet(pbuh) and is considred as the founder of fiqah..when prophet(pbuh)asked questions from him..as discussed above...