The Authority of Injunctive Fame of Earlier Prominent Jurists with an Approach based on Imam Khomeini's Views

In a general classification, fame is divided into narrative, behavioral and injunctive, but in this paper we mean injunctive fame among earlier prominent jurists, i.e. the injunction or decree that has risen to fame but its documentations are unknown. The authority of such a decree is in question. Some jurists like the late Grand Ayatollah Khoyi do not attach authority to injunctive fame per se and only reject the reasoning by the supporters of the injunctive fame, thus challenge the views of the earlier jurists in many cases by negating the validity of the fame. On the contrary, some others like the late Ayatollah Borujerdi, the late Imam Khomeini and the late Ayatollah Bojnourdi give authority to the injunctive fame of earlier jurists. In their view, any fame comes from principles that have been received from the Infallible Imam directly and without any change. Thus earlier prominent jurists have only narrated the principles they have received while they had access to the reliable documents and evidence, some of which we have not received so far. The most important reason for the authority of the injunctive fame of earlier prominent jurists is the existence of the basis of authoritative consensus in injunctive fame that is the same as conclusive narration of what they have received from the Infallible Imam.