@article{article_179722, title={Al-Samarqandī’s Use of The Prophetic Hadīth in His Tuhfat al-Fuqahā}, journal={Journal of Istanbul University Faculty of Theology}, pages={217–250}, year={2016}, author={Tırabzon, Abdullah}, keywords={Prophetic Sunna,Hanafi school,ijtihad,legal reasoning of ahl al-ra’y}, abstract={

Islamic schools of law agree on the validity of Sunna as the second source for inferring legal rulings. There is no disagreement between the two main approaches known as ahl al-hadith and ahl al-ra’y. However, it became a misleading widespread argument that ahl al-ra’y especially Hanafis rarely used hadith narration and that they preceded ra’y and qiyas over Sunna. This argument has no sufficient evidence .  The Hanafi books, in fact, are full of hadith narrations whom they use as evidence against their opponents including the jurists of ahl al-Hadith. As its status, Hadith precedes qiyās according to Hanafis just like others . They do not ignore any Hadith narration, unless it fails to reach their authenticity conditions. Again, this is something common among all jurists and schools of law .