Al-Kāfi - The Book on Virtue of Knowledge

Al-Kāfi - The Book on Virtue of Knowledge Chapter: Chapter on Innovations, Personal Opinions and Analogies ِنْ أَصْحَابِنَا عَنْ أَحْ٠َانَ بْنِ عِيسَى قَالَ سَأَلْتُ أَبَا الْحَسَنِ ٠ُوسَى (عَلَيْهِ السَّلا٠) عَنِ الْقِيَاسِ فَقَالَ ٠ْ وَالْقِيَاسَ إِنَّ الله لا يُسْأَلُ كَيْفَ أَحَلَّ وَكَيْفَ حَرَّ٠16.

A number of our people has narrated from Ahmad ibn Muhammad from ‘Uthman ibn ‘Isa who has said the following: “I asked (Imam) Abu al-Hassan Musa (a.s.) about the use of analogy and the Imam said, ‘What do you have to do with analogy? Allah is not asked about how he made things lawful or unlawful.’” صحيح - Shaykh Baqir al-Behbudi (Sahih al-Kafi (9/ 1)) وثق - Allamah Baqir al-Majlisi (Mirʾāt al-ʿUqūl fī Sharḥ Akhbār Āl al-Rasūl (1/198))