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**Slonopotam845** · 05-13-2011, 11:06 AM

I heard that the Dhahiri madhab was pretty big in Andalus but it all died out now. You can't even revive it because you need a living chain (i.e. scholars) rather than just picking up the books and implementing what you find in them. Dhahiri madhab was really literalist too because of the lack of even basic analogy

Actually, one of the unique things about the Dhahiri madhhab is that many of its scholars adopted the madhhab from reading books about it, since there was a great scarcity of Dhahiri shuyukh to transmit the madhhab. Ibn Hazm (rahimahullah) the most famous Dhahiri, actually learned the madhhab from books. His education from shuyukh was in the Maliki and Shafi'i madhhabs.

And as pointed out, there are Dhahiri-revivalist scholars in Saudi. I've heard of one in al-Hasa.

05-13-2011, 11:06 AM	#15
Slonopotam845 Join Date Jan 2006 Posts 5,251 Senior Member	I heard that the Dhahiri madhab was pretty big in Andalus but it all died out now. You can't even revive it because you need a living chain (i.e. scholars) rather than just picking up the books and implementing what you find in them. Dhahiri madhab was really literalist too because of the lack of even basic analogy Actually, one of the unique things about the Dhahiri madhhab is that many of its scholars adopted the madhhab from reading books about it, since there was a great scarcity of Dhahiri shuyukh to transmit the madhhab. Ibn Hazm (rahimahullah) the most famous Dhahiri, actually learned the madhhab from books. His education from shuyukh was in the Maliki and Shafi'i madhhabs. And as pointed out, there are Dhahiri-revivalist scholars in Saudi. I've heard of one in al-Hasa.
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