الإجماع السكوتي
al-Ijmāʿ al-Sukūtī
Tacit consensus: one or more jurists give a ruling and the others, aware of it, raise no objection.
What it means
Al-ijmāʿ al-sukūtī means silent consensus. It arises when a jurist or several jurists derive a ruling from a source and the other jurists of the age know of it and do not object, so their silence is read as acceptance. Faruqi defines it by the jurists’ not objecting to the derivation of a given prescription from a source. Schools differ on its weight. Some, including many Hanafi scholars, accept it as a proof, with conditions, while others, among them many Shafiʿi scholars, hold that silence alone cannot establish agreement. It is the weaker of the two kinds, set against express consensus (al-ijmāʿ al-ṣarīḥ).
Term and Arabic as listed in Ismail al Faruqi, Toward Islamic English (International Institute of Islamic Thought, 1995), p. 52, listed as AL IJMĀ' AL SUKŪTĪ. The definition is restated here.