Early and Formative-Era Islamic Jurists

Early and Formative-Era Islamic Jurists gathers the jurists of the first two or three Islamic centuries, the companions of Muhammad, the following generation of Successors, tabi'un, and the early independent scholars whose rulings and methods fed into the classical schools of law before those schools crystallized into the named traditions grouped elsewhere in this subcategory. Their surviving legal opinions and hadith transmissions are foundational sources that every later school of Islamic law continued to draw on.