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In Hanafi methodology, the specialization of the cause sometimes reflects theological identity. Although Karkhi, al-Jassas and al-Dabusi permitted the specialization of the cause, the prevailing approach to the specialization of the cause in Hanafi methodology in the period starting with Sarakhsi was to reject it. The leading scholar of this approach, Sarakhsi considered the permission for “the specialization of the cause” to be “inclination towards Mu’tazilism”. According to him, those who approve the specialization of the cause also accept other principles of Mu’tazilism, especially the principle about “isabat in ijtihad (infallibility in ijtihad)”. Al-Bazdawi, who lived in the time of Sarakhsi, and al-Nasafi, who lived two centuries later after them, made a connection between “isabat in ijtihad” and “specialization of the cause”. This approach was adopted only by al-Sarakhsi, al-Bazdawi and al-Nasafi in Hanafi methodology, but in the modern era, it found many followers. Consequently, it is evaluated that Karkhi and al-Jassas approving the specialization of the cause was because the Iraqi Hanafism was strongly influenced by Mu’tazilism. The focus of the research is to question this evaluation. The debate about the specialization of the cause in Hanafi methodology, and its relation with the issue of “isabat in ijtihad”, and the historical background of the approach suggesting that allowing for the specialization of the cause is the inclination towards Mu’tazilism are scrutinized in this research.

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