Gaskiya ita ce cewa Al-Istishaab ba ta zama Daleel a kan Hukunci ba, domin Daleel shi ne abin da ake ɗaukar Hukunci daga gare shi a kan wani al'amari ko wani aiki. Hukunci kuwa ko dai Fard ne, ko Mandoob, ko Mubaah, ko Makrooh, ko Haraam, kuma babu wani Hukunci da ake ɗauka daga Al-Istishaab. Maimakon haka, Al-Istishaab yana nufin ci gaba da zama na Hukuncin da wata hujja ta kafa a baya, wadda asalinta ba Al-Istishaab ba ce. Wannan kuwa saboda Al-Istishaab ba ya kafa sabon Hukunci, sai dai Hukuncin da ya gabata, wanda Daleel mai karɓuwa (Mu'tabar) ya kafa, yana ci gaba ta hanyar Istishaab.

The truth is that Al-Istishaab does not represent a Daleel upon the Hukm because the Daleel is that which the Hukm for a matter or an action is taken from. The Hukm is either Fard, Mandoob, Mubaah, Makrooh or Haraam and no Hukm is taken from Al-Istishaab. Rather Al-Istishaab means the remaining or continuance of the Hukm that had been established by an evidence previously which was not in origin Al-Istishaab. That is because Al-Istishaab doesn’t establish a new Hukm but rather the previous Hukm established by its legitimately recognised (Mu’tabar) Daleel continues by way of Istishaab.