The Meaning of Doubtful Matters in the Hadith of the Clear Halal
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The questioner:
Honorable Shaykh, may Allah grant you success, the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) said:Musannaf Ibn Abi Shaybah 12:2035 So what are the doubtful matters? And I ask for an example to be clarified?
The Shaykh:
The doubtful matters are those in which there is disagreement among the scholars, the disputed issues where there is a family of differing evidence, disagreement among them regarding the ruling, and the evidence has not become clear to favor one side over the other. Each opinion is possible as the correct one because the evidence has not become clear in them. These are encompassed by doubt. Leaving them is safer. Leaving the doubtful matters means one has protected his religion and his honor. For example, you are traveling in this country, a small town, and there is disagreement regarding breastfeeding, but you do not know it; you are not with the women of this village and you do not know them. It is better that you do not marry from this village because it is doubtful; it is possible that the one you marry is your sister, or a group of women whose breastfeeding makes them your sisters, but you do not know them specifically. Yes. There are many issues of doubt, many. Every issue in which there is disagreement and the evidence has not become clear to favor one of the two groups is doubtful. Yes.
The questioner:
Honorable Shaykh, may Allah grant you success, what is the ruling on the supplication that a person makes?
The Shaykh:
The doubtful matters, no, avoiding the doubtful matters in such a case is not obligatory; it is from the category of scrupulousness and precaution, so it is obligatory,
The questioner:
Honorable Shaykh, may Allah grant you success. The supplication that.
The Shaykh:
What comes in, for example, a sheep slaughtered by a Muslim or a People of the Book, and one slaughtered by a disbeliever, and some of them benefit from it, this comes from the halal, this is derived, that one falls into the forbidden, fearing that the sheep from which one ate is the forbidden one, I am avoiding the doubtful matters, yes.
Honorable Shaykh, may Allah grant you success, the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) said:
The lawful is clear, and the forbidden is clear, and between them are matters of doubt
الحلال بين والحرام بين وبينهما أمور مشتبهاتThe Shaykh:
The doubtful matters are those in which there is disagreement among the scholars, the disputed issues where there is a family of differing evidence, disagreement among them regarding the ruling, and the evidence has not become clear to favor one side over the other. Each opinion is possible as the correct one because the evidence has not become clear in them. These are encompassed by doubt. Leaving them is safer. Leaving the doubtful matters means one has protected his religion and his honor. For example, you are traveling in this country, a small town, and there is disagreement regarding breastfeeding, but you do not know it; you are not with the women of this village and you do not know them. It is better that you do not marry from this village because it is doubtful; it is possible that the one you marry is your sister, or a group of women whose breastfeeding makes them your sisters, but you do not know them specifically. Yes. There are many issues of doubt, many. Every issue in which there is disagreement and the evidence has not become clear to favor one of the two groups is doubtful. Yes.
The questioner:
Honorable Shaykh, may Allah grant you success, what is the ruling on the supplication that a person makes?
The Shaykh:
The doubtful matters, no, avoiding the doubtful matters in such a case is not obligatory; it is from the category of scrupulousness and precaution, so it is obligatory,
The questioner:
Honorable Shaykh, may Allah grant you success. The supplication that.
The Shaykh:
What comes in, for example, a sheep slaughtered by a Muslim or a People of the Book, and one slaughtered by a disbeliever, and some of them benefit from it, this comes from the halal, this is derived, that one falls into the forbidden, fearing that the sheep from which one ate is the forbidden one, I am avoiding the doubtful matters, yes.
Source
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