Ibn Idris and the Status of Indicating Consensus A New and Complemented View

Abstract

Consensus is one of the proofs of deduction that has been discussed and disputed for a long time. Ibn Idris al-Hilli believed that the evidence for deduction is limited to definitive evidence that bequeaths knowledge, but -unlike other fundamentalists- he viewed Consensus as the definitive evidence, and it is a disproof if it was revealing the saying of the infallible, and his detective was connotative and moderating, and even considered in some source the strongest evidence and giving it among all other evidence, which led to his adherence to it in sources that no one else has said.