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"It is to these experts that the Mujtahid Imāms directed their advice concerning ijtihad, such as Imam al-Shafi'i's instruction that 'if you find a hadith that contradicts my verdict, then follow the hadith.' It is obvious that whatever some writers nowadays like to believe, such counsels were intended for the Imam's sophisticated pupils, and were never intended for use by the Islamically- uneducated masses."