10 Facts About Zahiri

Zahiri school was initially called the Dawudi school after Dawud al-Zahiri himself and attracted many adherents, although they felt free to criticize his views, in line with the school's rejection of taqlid.

Parallel to the school's development in the east, Zahiri ideas were introduced to North Africa by theologians of the Maliki school who were engaged in lively debates with the Hanafi school, and to the Iberian Peninsula by one of Dawud al-Zahiri's direct students.

An increasing number of Zahiri scholars appeared starting from the late 9th century CE in different parts of the Iberian peninsula, though none of their works have survived.

Zahiri school enjoyed its widest expansion and prestige in the fourth Islamic century, especially through the works of Ibn al-Mughallis, but in the fifth century it lost ground to the Hanbalite school.

Al-Muhalla, a Medieval manual on Zahiri jurisprudence, served in part as inspiration for the revolt and as a primary source of the school's positions.

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Wael Hallaq has argued that the rejection of qiyas in Zahiri methodology led to exclusion of the school from the Sunni juridical consensus and ultimately its extinction in the pre-modern era.

The literalist school of thought represented by the Zahiri madhhab remains prominent among many scholars and laymen associated with the Salafi movement, and traces of it can be found in the modern-day Salafi movement.

Certain followers of the Zahiri school include religious inference as a fourth source of Islamic law.

Zahiri school has often been criticized by other schools within Sunni Islam.

At least with al-Balluti, one example of a Zahiri jurist applying Maliki law due to official enforcement is known.