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hadith who held the Quran and the authentic hadith to be the only acceptable sources in matters of law and creed. Alongside Malik ibn Anas, Islamic scholar Ibn Idris al-Shafi'i is widely regarded among the earliest leaders of the Athari school. In the debates between rationalists and the traditionalists, al-Shafi'i was able to successfully uphold the superiority of the hadith over other devices (such as rational arguments, local traditions, customs, ra'y, etc. ) as

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