Companions of the Imams and Quranic Jurisprudence مقالة

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12 Al-Shafi'i says: In the interpretation of the Quran, everyone is subordinate to Muqatil ibn Sulayman, and he considers Sufyan ibn Uyaynah to be one of the two individuals who preserved the knowledge of Hijaz, 13 but most of the companions of the Imams who, after the Tabi'un, engaged in the interpretation of the Quran or the interpretation of the verses of Ahkam, were in were actually narrators of the interpretive traditions of the Imams (as) and not people of deduction and ijtihad. Regarding the first question, it must be said: Firstly, that group among the Tabi'un who were counted as companions of the Imams had reached such richness and growth due to their utilization of the Sunnah of the Prophet (saw) and learning from the school of the Ahl al-Bayt that it was impossible to remove their scholarly personality from the system of jurisprudence and Islamic knowledge. Thirdly, during the period of the Tabi'un, a serious demarcation and distinction between Shiite principles and Sunni beliefs regarding jurisprudential matters had not yet occurred, and political lines in the realm of creedal and practical discussions had not gained widespread influence; for this reason, those who were seeking to understand religious knowledge would narrate hadith and acquire knowledge from the scholarly companions of the Imams.