Shāfiʿiyyah

A Qurʾān-and-Sunnah centred school renowned for systematic usūl, textual fidelity, and the refined legal method of al-ʾImām ash-Shāfiʿī.

Founder

Muḥammad ibn ʾIdrīs ash-Shāfiʿī

Central Focus

Uncompromising adherence to the Qurʾān and authentic Sunnah through a disciplined legal method that subordinates opinion to transmitted evidence.

7 sections

Overview

Origins, standing, and the school’s place among the four transmitted madhāhib.

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Uncompromising adherence to the Qurʾān and authentic Sunnah through a disciplined legal method that subordinates opinion to transmitted evidence.

10 sections

Well-known rulings and usūlī commitments that mark the school out from the others.

5 sections

Its historical relation to al-ʾAsḥʿariyyah, the Atharī strand within the school, and its place in the wider Sunni tradition.

31 sections

Its historical spread, textual transmission, and the chain of relied-upon Shāfiʿī works.