المعنى الاصطلاحي

What has been transmitted from the Companions of the Prophet, may Allah's peace and blessings be upon him, of independent reasoning in one of the issues of the religion.

الشرح المختصر

"َQawl as-Sahaabi" (a Companion's statement) is one of the secondary sources of Islamic legislation. It means an opinion or a fatwa that is authentically attributed to one of the Prophet's Companions about a matter pertaining to religion. There are three divisions of "qawl as-Sahaabi": First: a "Sahaabi" says something, and his statement spreads among the Sahaabah (Companions), and they do not oppose him. This is called "ijmaa‘ sukooti" (silent consensus). Second: a "Sahaabi" says something, and his statement spreads, and some of the "Sahaabah" oppose him. Third: a "Sahaabi" says something, but his statement does not spread in the "Ummah" (Islamic community), and none of the "Sahaabah" oppose him. A "Sahaabi" is someone who met the Prophet, may Allah's peace and blessings be upon him, while he believed in him and died as a Muslim.