Development of the Sunni Fiqh and the application of analogy

This is a duplicated post from this topic

I am re-producing it here to serve as an index to a list of posts made earlier this year. The topic is about the development of the Sunni Fiqh and the application of the qiyas/analogy in deriving Islamic laws.

Al-Ray means opinion. I have written about Application of ra'y (opinion) in Sunnism

I have also written about how did Ra’y (opinion) become Qiyas (analogy). The reason I focused on Sunnis is because their scholars were the forefront of the opinioned analogy. The most significant contribution in this are is by the Sunni Imam Abu Hanifah

And the reason the Shias were not playing with Qiyas is because 1) We had the Imams of Ahlul Bayt who were our teachers and 2) we were warned by our Imams not to use the Qiyas framework to derive Islamic laws as shown in this conversation between Imam as-Sadiq and the Sunni Imam Abu Hanifah

After reading the above exchange you know exactly the deficiency of the qiyas framework.

Mind you that other Sunni Imams such as Imam Shafie and Imam Hanbal heavily criticized the qiyas framework. People even went as far as making joke about the approach.

And then they started clashing with each other

And then people started thinking more about the current practice

Then the Sunni Imam Shafie created a better framework (according to the Sunnis) for using the qiyas