Analysis of Ibn al-Humām's views about talfīq

In Hanafi jurisprudential sources, it is said that Tarasūsī spoke first about the permissibility of talfīq. Then Ibn al-Humām mentioned several ambiguous phrases in his books Tahrīr and Fath al-Qadīr, which indicated the permissibility of tatabbu' al-rukhos and the non-prohibition of talfīq. It is known to everyone that Ibn al-Humām was one of the most prominent scholars in the field of usūl al-fiqh, as well as all Islamic sciences in his time. Due to this, his views and approaches to problematic issues have always been in the spotlight of usūlī scholars. Qāsim bin Qutlūbughā, one of the scholars who is most likely to understand the true meaning of these phrases due to his study in the presence of Ibn al-Humām, has stated in many places that talfīq is not permissible. But the debate about these ambiguous phrases of Ibn al-Humām did not end there; rather, it heated up even more. A clear example of this is Ibn Nujaym al-Miṣrī, who issued a fatwā in several places using talfīq and attributed the opinion of its permissibility to Ibn al-Humām. Another example is Mullā Farrūkh, who wrote an independent risālah to prove that the talfīq is a type of legal reasoning and tried to prove its permissibility. Thus, Ibn al-Humām's ambiguous expressions are examined a lot by usūlī scholars to this day. The main goals of this master's paper are to reveal what Ibn al-Humām intended from these expressions and that these phrases cannot be proof of the validity of talfīq