SUNNA, 'PRACTICE' AND 'LIVING TRADITION' 81
consensus.1 The idea of consensus, as used in the ancient schools, is in fact another aspect of their concept of 'living tradition', and it is only because it has become an independent principle in the classical theory of Muhammadan law, that we shall discuss it in a separate chapter.
1 See above, pp. 62 f., 64 f., 68, n. 2, 69, 70.