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[Impossibility of having access to the Sunnah of the Prophet of God after him]

Yes, most of his sayings and actions could be followed by people of his time; because although their authority is not inherently specific to them, they practically can be followed by those who are certain about them, while certainty about them is achieved by seeing and hearing them, which are possible for people of his time and are not possible for those after him except by mutawatir narrations that rationally indicate certainty; considering that their narrators in every level reach a number that makes it impossible that they would all agree on error or collude in lying, and these two are the only ways to benefit from what God has sent down to His Prophet; as He Himself has explicitly stated it and said: ﴿إِنَّ فِي ذَلِكَ لَذِكْرَى لِمَنْ كَانَ لَهُ قَلْبٌ أَوْ أَلْقَى السَّمْعَ وَهُوَ شَهِيدٌ[1]; “Indeed, there is a reminder in it for whoever has the intellect or gives ear while he is present,” and therefore, there is no reminder in it for one who does not have access to a rational reason, such as mutawatir narrations from the Prophet , or a sensory reason, such as acquiring from him in person, while acquiring from him in person is not possible for those after him, and mutawatir narrations from him have not sufficiently reached them either, nor do they exist in many scholarly and practical chapters; because the narrations that exist in many of them are ahad narrations, and ahad narrations naturally do not indicate certainty; considering that their narrators in most cases do not exceed one or two men, and therefore, there is a possibility of lies, error, and forgetfulness in them, and for this reason, they result in conjecture of posterity in the best possible case, while the lack of authority and sufficiency of conjecture is one of the essential rules of Islam.

Based on this, the Sunnah of the Prophet , although it is proof for all Muslims, is only accessible to people of his time, and those after him cannot have access to it in a certain manner;

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