As demonstrated in the preceding chapters, Ja'far alSdiq's legal thought fell very much within the general legal discourse of late Umayyad and early Abbasid times. It was common for the judges and jurists of the period to maintain sharp differences of opinion and to disagree on just about every point.
The community had accepted this diversity of opinion alongside a core that all Muslim jurists agreed upon and that formed the essential elements of Islamic religious thought and culture.
As also noted earlier, some of Ja'far alSdiq's legal opinions are quoted in the general sources of Islamic law. They reflect certain characteristics of his school as well as disagreements between him and other jurists of the time. With the advancement of legal “orthodoxy” and the growing popularity of a small number of legal schools, many early opinions, including much that was supported by or attributed to the school of Ja'far alSdiq gradually disappeared in the legal discourse of the majority Sunni tradition. In more recent times, certain issues in Ja'far alSdiq's legal legacy have been brought up in sectarian debates and treated in ways that are ahistorical and decontextualized. This chapter examines a few of these issues in an effort to understand them within the historical and legal discourse of their time.
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