Explicitly Said or Only Implied?

There are two main approaches in Islamic legal theory to the classification of a meaning as explicit or implicit. The two approaches-i.e. the Šāfiʿite and the Ḥanafite-differ with regard to their underlying hermeneutic paradigms. It is sometimes assumed that the "standard" Šāfiʿite approach corresponds to that of Āmidī (d. 631/1233). However, as this paper argues, there were two other authors who had a major impact on the evolution of the Šāfiʿite approach: the post-Avicennian polymath and Šāfiʿī jurist Faḫr ad-dīn ar-Rāzī (d. 606/1210); and the Mālikite jurist Ibn al-Ḥāǧib (d. 646/1249) who creates his own classification-on the basis of both Āmidī's approach and the Ḥanafite paradigm. Aḍud ad-dīn al-Īǧī (d. 756/1355) eventually modified Ibn al-Ḥāǧib's classification using Rāzī's framework-and this is the version which is nowadays referred to as the Šāfiʿite approach.