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6-10 witnesses constitue Jamee-Ghafeer in Hanafi Madhab?



This I accept Mufti Saheb and hence the reason I have no problems with the Ulama declaring Ramadhan following the Guidance of Hazrat Thanwi (RA).
But the world has moved on and Shaykh (Mufti) Taqi Usmani (HA) disagrees with his father and considers Astronomical Sciences sufficient to negate an impossible testimony and YET we have Ulama in California who are still clinging to where science was in 1960s...
British Ulama like (Mufti) Yusuf Danke (HA) etc don't consider this number high number when it contradicts Astronomical data and 6-10 witnesses is not enough to throw away records between 1895-now
Allah (SWT) knows best.


But Mufti Taqi Usmani (HA) says that "impossible" sighting has can be negated with Astronomical data. Ulama who back this California sighting are quoting Usool (which I agree they have the right to make an Ijtehad upon).
BUT these Ulama are questioning Science and validity of data what is their evidence for that?



When Mufti Shafi Usmani (RA) wrote his treatise in 1960's we neither had a lot of data nor the updated danjon limits or the ability to crunch data in such hight numbers; now we do.
Ulama accepted their sighting based on Usool from 1960's (fair enough) because these guys happened to be Sufi-Deobandees (fair enough). What is your evidence for conclusively proving that the moon was seen?
Are 2 seprate matters, Mufti Saheb. I am with you on 1 but respectively disagree with 2 (unless you can prove it).
Khudayri has decades of experience in Moon Sighting and he trains others and his experience clearly outweights our Ulama from California so I am Sorry the argument to follow Saudi still holds...



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