Emergence of UsË al-Fiqh(The principle Islamic jurisprudence) After the prophetic period, Muslims refer to Quran and Sunnah as the last resort to find solutions to the problems they had In the search for the solutions Muslim scholars resorted to reason as a means to interpret the Quran and Sunnah Reason being naturally subjective1, there are differences in the interpretation of certain words. To avoid having unguided interpretation, scholars of the first and second centuries concerned themselves with laying down the rules of interpretation introducing methods that will govern the use of reason. This has led to the emergence of schools of Fiqh. A well developed science known as UsËl al-Fiqh later emerged from those rules of interpretation and methods of reasoning. Definition of UsËl al-Fiqh Usul mean foundation or basis upon which the Fiqh is built. Usul al-fiqh is a body of principles and methods by which the rules of Fiqh ar...