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[[Al-Sayyid Na'matullah al-Jaza'iri]] in his ''[[Manba' al-haya]]'' and [[Mulla Radi al-Qazwini]] in his ''[[Lisan al-khawas]]'' have mentioned major points of disagreement between Akhbaris and Usulis. Moreover, [['Abd Allah b. Salih al-Samahiji al-Bahrani]] has mentioned 40 points of dispute between them in his ''[[Munya al-mumarisin]]''. [[Al-Shaykh Ja'far Kashif al-Ghita']] has considered such disagreements in his ''[[al-Haq al-mubin]]'', and [[Mirza Muhammad al-Akhbari]] has cited 59 points of disagreement in his ''[[al-Tuhr al-fasil]]''. [[Al-Sayyid Muhammad al-Dizfuli]] has referred to 86 points of dispue in his ''[[Faruq al-haq]]'', and [[al-Hurr al-'Amili]] has mentioned 92 disagreements in his ''[[al-Faqa'id al-tusiyya]]''.

Proponents of Akhbarism take [[ijtihad]] to be [[haram]], that is, forbidden or illegitimate by [[Shari'a]], but proponents of Usulism take it to be [[al-wajib al-kafa'i]] or a "social obligation" (that is, it is obligatory to be carried out by a sufficient number of people in which case it would not be obligatory for others) and some of them take it to be [[al-wajib al-'ayni]] or an "individual obligation" (that is, obligatory for everyone). In his well-known book, ''[[al-Faqa'id al-madaniyya]]'', [[Mulla Muhammad Amin al-Astarabadi]] denies the method of ijtihad, holding that such a method was never practiced by early Shiite scholars.