Principles of the Sunnis

“Osul” (jurisprudence principles) is a knowledge that derives the sharia rules from its sources. Books of Osul of the Sunnis have been published in two ways; way of theologians and way of jurists. The theologians have put the principles so that the jurisprudence rules could be extracted by using those principles. The jurists extracted those principles from jurisprudence. Some groups have taken the second method and some others have mixed the two methods and created a third way.Bifurcation of the minutiae from the principles is a special knowledge that lies beside the Osul and the jurists have put efforts on it. Shia’s scholars who go by the principles (Osul) also have published their books by the way of theologians.