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And this was the norm of al-Ṣaḥābah (ie: the Companions) and those who followed them in goodness,
وهذه عادة الصحابة والتابعين لهم بإحسان

Is that if one of them opposed the majority of them in an issue in which there is a stated naṣṣ (ie: text from the Book of Allah or the Sunnah),
إذا خالف أحدٌ منهم جمهورَهم في مسألة فيها نصٌّ؛

They would refute him with that naṣṣ,
ردواعليه بالنص

And would not say: “You opposed the majority”,
ولم يقولوا له:(خالفت الجمهور)

Or “Your view is shāḏ, because it contradicts that of the majority.”
ولا: قولك شاذٌّ، لأنه خالف الجمهور

And if there were not in the issue a (specific) text, they would not object to him;
إن لم يكن في المسألة (نصٌّ) لم يُنكروا عليه،

Rather they would consider this to be one of the issues of al-ijtihād.
بل جعلوها من مسائل الاجتهاد!

Ibn Taymiyyah, Jāmīʿ al-Fuṣūl 1/250
ابن تيمية، جامع الفصول ١/٢٥٠
https://archive.org/details/20211101_20211101_1711/أسود%20ضعيفة/page/n250

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