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How can one find an easy and accessible research method for the sayings of scholars and their differences on jurisprudential issues, specifically the sayings of scholars and the Four Schools of Thought on a particular issue?

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Searching for Shar'i (Islamic legal) issues, especially with the availability of electronic libraries, has become easy for a student of knowledge, whereas it might be difficult for a non-specialist to understand or find these issues. To know the opinion of a specific madhhab (school of thought), one should search in the books of that madhhab in the dedicated chapters, for example, searching for the ruling on tanned leather according to the Hanbalis in the book of purification, chapter on vessels. To know the opinions of the madhhabs generally, there are old books such as "Bidayat al-Mujtahid" by Ibn Rushd, and modern ones such as "The Kuwaiti Fiqh Encyclopedia." To know the opinion of a specific scholar like Ibn Taymiyyah, one should search in his books, or the books of his students like Ibn al-Qayyim.

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