The Position and Value of the Practices of the Reasonable People in Imami Jurisprudence

The term “practices of the reasonable people” has gained an important and influential position since its introduction to the literature of jurisprudence and principles of jurisprudence. Jurists and scholars of principles of jurisprudence have referred to it in
their arguments in different issues in their respective fields. Its function as a rule maker has especially become so prominent that it can even be considered as a revolutionary theory in contemporary Imami principles of jurisprudence. Despite the detailed by experts about the nature and reliability of the practices of the reasonable people, fundamental questions are still unanswered including whether it has achieved such level of richness and independence to be appointed a separate position along with previously accepted four main sources or it still needs to be analyzed as a subset of one of the reliable sources. Another question is that from which source it has originated. This article
studies the nature of the practices of the reasonable people from the viewpoint of Imami scholars of principles of jurisprudence and the questions about its position and value.