Menimbang maslahah sebagai dasar penetapan hukum: kajian terhadap pemikiran Muhammad Abu Zahrah

This article tries to describe briefly the views imam Muhammad Abu Zahrah, a leading Islamic jurist from Egypt, relating to the sources of Islamic law and the methods of interpretation contained in his work on the theory of Islamic law, entitled Ushull al-Fiqh, with a primary focus on one of the interpretations of the sources of law, namely maslahah through by theory of maqasid al-Sharia. At the end of the article concluded that in Islamic law, maslahah was the main purpose and first in muamalah problems. Maslahah can be seen in the short-term purpose and long-term purpose, and has been agreed as a proposition of law jurists law. Nevertheless, there are differences of opinion with regard to the levels of use of pure reason in an attempt to find the maslahah unaided nass at all, the opinion of one effusive in adhering to pure reason, and another opinion effusive in stopping the nass at all. But Imam Malik ibn Anas, is in the middle of these two opinions, by not making "reasoning" in finding maslahah exceed the limit and position that could lead to conflict with nas}s}qat}'iyand ijma