The Companion Shaddad bin Aws and his Jurisprudential Choices

Abstract

God Almighty wanted this law to be the final and purest of all laws, and He, may He be glorified and exalted, chose His chosen one of His creation, Muhammad (may God bless him and grant him peace), to convey this message. He conveyed the message, fulfilled his trust, and advised the nation. Through him, God removed the distress, and he struggled in God as he should have fought.

So God revealed His true religion over all other religions, and it is a complete blessing of God Almighty that He chose for His Prophet (may God bless him and grant him peace) companions who supported him and supported him, so they borrowed from him the meanings of this religion that came from him, and their hearts were illuminated by his love, so they carried the Qur’an and the Sunnah and the objectives that came from it, so they were more keen in mind and more distant. Given, and deeper, understanding of the texts of Sharia than what those who came after them did not understand, they were the bearers of this religion to those who came after them, so they were guided by their guidance and enlightened by the light of their knowledge.

Among these is the venerable companion Shaddad bin Aws al-Ansari (may God be pleased with him), and in this research I wanted to collect his publications and jurisprudential opinions that researchers have often overlooked, even though he was unique in more than one issue and participated with other companions, may God Almighty be pleased with them, in issues on which their opinion was the preponderant one. In writing this research, I followed the inductive and analytical approach, so the research was comparative jurisprudence with weighting.

The research plan required it to be divided into two sections. In the first section: the life of the companion Aws bin Shaddad, and in the second section: jurisprudential issues, then the conclusion. I also made a list of the sources and references that were used in writing this research.