Ra'y
idea · 2 works · 3 mentions · 4 anchored passages
الرأي · legal reasoning · judgment · opinion · raʼy
in the texts
Bayān zaghl al-ʻilm wa-al-ṭalab
Independent legal reasoning, normally the opposite pole to hadith, cited here to sharpen the insult: even the men of raʼy knew hadith better than today's specialists.
And how many a man renowned in the old time for jurisprudence and for legal reasoning (*raʼy*) is better in hadith than the moderns;
The Ḥanafī jurists are men of exactitude and of legal reasoning (*raʼy*) and of quick intelligence, and good is to be looked for from such men — provided they are kept clear of contrivance and of the legal devices (*ḥiyal*) for usury and for voiding the alms-tax, (1) and of pecking at the prayer, and of acting upon those cases in which they hear the prophetic texts run against them.
Adab al-wazīr
Raʼy, the faculty and act of sound political judgment, treated as the thing consultation augments and old age both weakens and refines.
For that reason kings are companioned only upon their own choosing, and they hold fast to none but him who agrees with them in their opinions.
The man of feeble judgment is a squanderer of his chance — until, when the matter has slipped away, he reproaches the decrees of fate
soundness of judgment, purity of intention, and the keeping of a secret.