Fiqhchilarning qiyos (analogiya) tatbiqidagi turlicha yondashuvlari ular o'rtasidagi ixtiloflarning, ehtimol, eng katta manbai bo'lgan. Ba'zilari qiyosni qo'llash uchun bir qator shartlar qo'yish orqali uning doirasini toraytirgan, boshqalari esa uning doirasini kengaytirgan.

The various approaches which jurists took in their application of Qiyaas were perhaps the largest source of defferences among them. Some narrowed down the scope of Qiyaas by setting a number of preconditions for its use, while others expanded its scope.

Ushbu tamoyil boshqalariga qaraganda ko'proq fikrga asoslangan edi, shu sababli uni chegaralaydigan qat'iy qoidalar yo'q edi va natijada keng ko'lamdagi farqlar paydo bo'ldi.182

Because this principle was based on opinion to a greater extent than any of the others, there were no hard and fast rules with which to contain it, and thus a wide range of differences developed.182