Endnotes

1 For his life and works see al-Khwansan, Rawdat al-jannat (Qum, 1394/1974), v. 4, pp. 118-120; al- Tunikaburn, Qisas al-'ulama' (Tehran, n.d), pp. 228-230; Äghä Buzurg al-Tihrani, al-Dhari'a ila tasdnif al-Shi'a (Beirut, 1403/1983), v.

2 Gleave, Scripturalist Islam (Leiden, 2007), pp. 239-241; pp. 263-264.

3 Weiss, The Search for God’s Law (Salt Lake City, 2010), pp. 682-685; pp. 690-697; Chaumont, “La problematique classique de l’ijtihad et la question de l’ijtihad du prophete: ijtihad, wahy et 'isma,” SI 75 (1992), pp. 105-139.

4 Descriptions of the Majlis-e Shüra-ye Islami (or Majlis-e Shüra-ye Milli) Library manuscripts can be found in the printed catalogue: Dirayati, Fihrist-e Ketabkhaneh-ye Majlis-e Shüra-ye Milli/Islami M1: v. 9.1, p. 9; M2: v. 24.2, p. 164; M3: v. 11, p. 302; M4: v. 10.4, p. 1893).

5 Qur’an 53:3-4.

6 Qur’an 59:2.

7 Qur’an 53:3-4.

8 Qur’an 53:3-4.

9 Qur’an 59:2.

10 Qur’an 9:43.

11 Qur’an 3:159.

12 Al-Sijistani, Sunan Abi Dawüd (Cairo, 1420/1999), v. 2, p. 771.

13 Ahmad b. Hanbal, Musnad al-Imam Ahmad b. Hanbal (Beirut, 1416/1995), v. 4, pp. 133-134.

14 Ibn Qayyim al-Jawziyya states that this report has no basis (la asl lahu). See Ibn Qayyim al-Jawziyya, Tafsir al-Qur'an al-Karim/al-Tafsir al-Qayyim (Beirut, 1410/1989), p. 80.

15 Al-'Allama al-Hilli, Tahdhib al-wusul ila 'ilm al-usul (London, 1421/2000), p. 284.