When they are asked about something they don’t know about...
When they are asked about something they don’t know about, they do not admit their ignorance, but make use of opinion and go astray and lead others astray.’ [41] Is Fatawa Based on a Hadith: First of all a Fatwa is not a Hadith, it is rather someone’s judgement/conclusion, if we assume it’s origin is from Hadith then there is no room for the Ijtihad, as Ijtihad is carried out when there are no clear instructions found from the Book and the Sunnah [42] .
Since, one can find a Fatwa on almost all aspects of the religious issues, and Mujtahids do not narrate Ahadith which would mean that there is not a single clear Divine Message and all of it is ambigious (nouzobillah).
One, however, may say that Fatwa is in fact a Hadith expressed in one’s own words but from the Hadith below this is also forbidden as replacing a Masoom -asws ’s name by one’s own name is not only unethical but also forbidden, the following Hadith clearly negates this: وعن أحمد بن محمد ، عن علي بن الحكم ، عن أبي بكر الحضرمي ، عن الحجاج بن الصباح ، قال : قلت لأبي جعفر ( عليه السلام ) : إنا نحدث عنك بالحديث ، فيقول بعضنا : قولنا قولهم ، قال : فما تريد ؟ أتريد أن تكون إماما يقتدى بك ؟ !
من رد القول إلينا فقد سلم . And from Ahmad Bin Muhammad, from Ali Bin Al Hakam, from Abu Bakr Al Hazramy, from Al Hajjaaj Bin Al Sabaah who said: ‘I said to Abu Ja’far -asws , ‘I narrate from you -asws a Hadith. Some of us say ‘Our words are their -asws words’. He -asws said: ‘What do you want?’ Do you intend to be Imams to be followed? One who refers the words to us -asws is safe’.