Ijmāʿ, (Arabic: “consensus”) in Islamic law, the universal and infallible agreement of either the Muslim community as a whole or Muslim scholars in particular. The consensus-sometimes justified through a saying from the Hadith (traditions of the sayings and actions of Muhammad), “My people will never agree in an error”-constitutes one of the sources of Islamic jurisprudence, uṣūl al-fiqh.
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