22 Actually, this argument of al-Shafi's opponents was part of a larger argument that the Prophet's Companions had seen him behave in all sorts of situations and had acted in his spirit; that the succeeding generation had, in their turn, witnessed the behavior of the Companions; and that through this process - involving mutual advice and criticism - by the third generation, the Prophetic Sunnah can be assumed to have been established in practice in the Community and, therefore, the vehicle of mass-scale Hadith - beset with dangers of lack of verifiability was not needed to support this Sunnah. 23 ' This argument was disallowed resolutely by al-Shafi.
Nami nasema, kama ilivyo katika kuthibitisha jambo la ibada, basi pia inakuwa hivyo hivyo katika jambo la kuanzishwa kwa jambo la kiibada bila ya tofauti yoyote. Pili, Kauli isemayo kuwa kuanzishwa kwa adhana ni kutokana na ndoto aliyoiota Abdallah bin Zaid inapingana na cheo cha utume na uwekaji sharia nayo inazingatiwa na inakataliwa katika upande huu hali ikiwa kauli hii ina uwiano na nafasi ya unabii wala haipingani na misingi iliyokubaliwa na pande mbili.