Exploring how Shia jurisprudence act was before Imam Muhammad Baqir (AS)

The issue of practicing Shia law in the period before the Pontificate of Imam Muhammad Baqir(PBUH) is something that many consider it vague and even does not come to mention it and have been passed by without talking about more.Clarifying this issue in the period that have mentioned can create new windows in the science of jurisprudence.The investigation of present study and the first jurisprudence after the death of Prophet peace be upon him and his progeny before Imam Muhammad Baqir(PBUH), looking how to act and obtain and review the Jurisprudence of shia for this period; The time when the first four Shia Imams peace be upon them with numerous problems such as facing Umayyad rule, lack of concern on jurisprudential issues for thelater periods,the events after the incident of Karbala and not having a strong Shia government for the development and spread of pure Shia jurisprudence. Jurisprudential story and narration from history shows that the Shias are practicing the methods of ijtihad based on the principlesinduced by the Imams in Shiite cities far from the center, questioning him directly, question his companions and followers and shia scholars or going back to written that have left from imams from before such as imam Hassan al-Mujtaba(pbuh) and Imam Sajjad(pbuh) or their companions such as Abu Raf’e and his two sons and they were finding the issue of their jurisprudences. Indeed sometimes the Shias before Imam Muhammad Al-Baqir(pbuh), they were going to non shia scholars to get the answer to legal issue.