Mujtahid al-Mutajazzi
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Al-Mujtahid al-Mutajazzī (Arabic: المجتهد المتجزّئ, lit. partial mujtahid) is a person who has the ability of inferring religious rulings only in a part of jurisprudential issues,[1] unlike a al-Mujtahid al-Mutlaq (absolute jurist) who can infer all Religious rulings.[2] Most jurists believe that ijtihad in specific jurisprudential areas is possible, and an al-Mujtahid al-Mutajazzi can perform ijtihad in a specific field without having complete mastery over fiqh.[3] However, some jurists consider it rationally impossible.[4]
According to jurists, when a partial mujtahid reaches a definitive ijtihad in an issue, acting upon his own opinion is obligatory for him, and he cannot practice Taqlid (emulate) others.[5] There are two views regarding the permissibility of others doing Taqlid of a Mujtahid al-Mutajazzi: A group believes that one can refer to his ijtihad, and he can be recognized as a Marja' in specific issues.[6] However, others do not consider Taqlid of such a jurist permissible,[7] because the Sira of Rational People or the Sira of the Mutasharri'a does not involve referring to a partial mujtahid, and the evidences for the permissibility of Taqlid do not include him.[8]
Guardianship (Wilaya) and undertaking jurisprudential and judicial affairs are exclusive to a fully qualified jurist, and individuals lacking complete ijtihad can only judge in the absence of an Absolute Mujtahid .[9]
Notes
- ↑ Khoei, Mawsūʿat al-Imām al-Khūʾī, vol. 1, p. 189; Mishkīnī, Iṣṭilāḥāt al-uṣūl, 1416 AH, p. 19.
- ↑ Makārim Shīrāzī, Anwār al-uṣūl, 1416 AH, vol. 3, p. 609.
- ↑ ʿAllāma al-Ḥillī, Tahdhīb al-wuṣūl, 1380 Sh, p. 283; Shahīd al-Awwal, Dhikrā al-Shīʿa, 1419 AH, vol. 1, p. 43; Khurāsānī, Kifāyat al-uṣūl, 1409 AH, p. 466.
- ↑ Khoei, Kitāb al-ijtihād wa l-taqlīd, 1410 AH, p. 33; Narāqī, Mustanad al-Shīʿa, 1415 AH, vol. 17, p. 29.
- ↑ Makārim Shīrāzī, Anwār al-uṣūl, 1416 AH, vol. 3, p. 618.
- ↑ See: ʿIrāqī, Nihāyat al-afkār, 1417 AH, vol. 4, p. 225; Khumaynī, Mawsūʿat al-Imām al-Khumaynī, 1434 AH, vol. 1, p. 6.
- ↑ Ṭabāṭabāʾī Yazdī, Al-ʿUrwa al-wuthqā, 1419 AH, vol. 1, p. 26.
- ↑ Khurāsānī, Kifāyat al-uṣūl, 1409 AH, p. 466.
- ↑ Khumaynī, Taḥrīr al-wasīla, 1392 Sh, vol. 1, p. 460; Fāḍil Lankarānī, Tafṣīl al-sharīʿa, 1430 AH, p. 138.
References
- ʿAllāma al-Ḥillī, al-Ḥasan b. Yūsuf al-. Tahdhīb al-wuṣūl ilā ʿilm al-uṣūl. Edited by Muḥammad Ḥusayn Raḍawī Kashmīrī. London, Muʾassasat al-Imām ʿAlī (a), 1380 Sh.
- Fāḍil Lankarānī, Muḥammad. Tafṣīl al-sharīʿa-Kitāb al-amr bi-l-maʿrūf wa l-nahy ʿan al-munkar. Qom, Markaz-i Fiqh-i Aʾimmat al-Aṭhār (a), 1st ed, 1430 AH.
- ʿIrāqī, Ḍiyāʾ al-Dīn al-. Nihāyat al-afkār. Qom, Muʾassasat al-Nashr al-Islāmī, 1417 AH.
- Khoei, Sayyid Abū l-Qāsim al-. Kitāb al-ijtihād wa l-taqlīd. Qom, Dār al-Hādī, 1410 AH.
- Khoei, Sayyid Abū l-Qāsim al-. Mawsūʿat al-Imām al-Khūʾī. Qom, Muʾassasat al-Imām al-Khūʾī al-Islāmiyya, n.d.
- Khumaynī, Sayyid Rūḥ Allāh al-. Mawsūʿat al-Imām al-Khumaynī. Tehran, Muʾassasat Tanẓīm wa Nashr-i Āthār-i Imām al-Khumaynī, 1434 AH.
- Khumaynī, Sayyid Rūḥ Allāh al-. Taḥrīr al-wasīla. Tehran, Muʾassasat Tanẓīm wa Nashr-i Āthār-i Imām Khumaynī, 1392 Sh.
- Khurāsānī, Muḥammad Kāẓim al-. Kifāyat al-uṣūl. Qom, Muʾassasat Āl al-Bayt (a) li-Iḥyāʾ al-Turāth, 1409 AH.
- Makārim Shīrāzī, Nāṣir. Anwār al-uṣūl. Qom, Intishārāt-i Nasl-i Javān, 1416 AH.
- Mishkīnī, ʿAlī. Iṣṭilāḥāt al-uṣūl wa muʿẓam abḥāthihā. Qom, al-Hādī, 6th ed, 1416 AH.
- Narāqī, Aḥmad b. Muḥammad Mahdī al-. Mustanad al-Shīʿa fī aḥkām al-sharīʿa. Qom, Muʾassasat Āl al-Bayt (a), 1st ed, 1415 AH.
- Shahīd al-Awwal, Muḥammad b. Makkī al-. Dhikrā al-Shīʿa fī aḥkām al-sharīʿa. Qom, Muʾassasat Āl al-Bayt (a), 1419 AH.
- Ṭabāṭabāʾī Yazdī, Sayyid Muḥammad Kāẓim al-. Al-ʿUrwa al-wuthqā fī-mā taʿumm bih al-balwā. Edited by Aḥmad Muḥsinī Sabzawārī. Qom, Daftar-i Intishārāt-i Islāmī, 1st ed, 1419 AH.