The ruling on taking advantage of dispensations in the story of Suhaib and Salim

The questioner:
Honorable Shaykh Abu Suhaib (may Allah be pleased with him), if he asked us in our house, he said: The Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) said, “Give me the surplus of Ali.” This indicates that it is prescribed for the Muslim to speak about a legal precedent.

The Shaykh:
If Allah wills.

The questioner:
The legal body.

The Shaykh:
No, we said that the correct view, and the one held by the majority, is that this is a specific case regarding Suhaib, and it has no general application. It is not permissible to follow stratagems or to follow legal dispensations, meaning the legal dispensations that Allah and His Messenger have legislated are fine, for Allah loves that His dispensations be taken. But the dispensations in which scholars have exercised independent legal reasoning, which are the opinions of scholars, no, it is not permissible for us to take except what is supported by evidence from the opinions of scholars.