What is the reference you recommend consulting regarding consensus?
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The questioner : The questioner says: Your Eminence, what is the reference you recommend consulting regarding the topic of consensus?
The Shaykh : What is the topic of what?
The questioner : Ijma'.
The Shaykh : Consensus. The best book on defining what is truly consensus, and the consensuses that are claimed to be consensus, is the book by Ibn Hazm titled "Al-Ihkam fi Usul al-Ahkam" (The Decisive Rules on the Principles of Rulings).
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The Shaykh : What is the topic of what?
The questioner : Ijma'.
The Shaykh : Consensus. The best book on defining what is truly consensus, and the consensuses that are claimed to be consensus, is the book by Ibn Hazm titled "Al-Ihkam fi Usul al-Ahkam" (The Decisive Rules on the Principles of Rulings).
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