How to deal with a ruling that has no evidence in a specific text but has evidence in another narration
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The Shaykh : Yes, honor.
The questioner : The principle they mentioned a moment ago, and because if evidence is not delayed when it is needed,
The Shaykh : About what?
The questioner : The text mentions the gift or the reward along with the supplication for need, so this indicates that there is nothing, but sometimes we may have evidence, and then other narrations come to us that validate attaching this to the hadith, as is often clear. So what is the method, or the one that regulates this station for the student of knowledge?
The Shaykh : The method, may Allah bless you, is that if the ruling is established by another text, the Shari'ah is one and its source is one. Here, there is no evidence for the obligation of the fidyah (ransom payment) in general; I am saying this in general. When we find a text that does not contain a condition that establishes this condition, it is not considered if the need arises to explain it. But if another evidence comes to us indicating the obligation, we take it. For example, we have the hadith of the one who messed up his prayer, which contains many obligatory things that were not mentioned in it, but by other texts. The tashahhud (testification recited while sitting in prayer) is obligatory, as Ibn 'Abbas said before the tashahhud was made obligatory upon us, and yet it was not mentioned in the hadith of the one who messed up his prayer.
The questioner : Should we say that if one follows the evidence, it becomes clear?
The Shaykh : He who stops at what he has heard has done well, and a person is not burdened with more than he can bear, but generally, something arises in a person's mind based on the general principles he understands, so he needs to research.
The questioner : The principle they mentioned a moment ago, and because if evidence is not delayed when it is needed,
The Shaykh : About what?
The questioner : The text mentions the gift or the reward along with the supplication for need, so this indicates that there is nothing, but sometimes we may have evidence, and then other narrations come to us that validate attaching this to the hadith, as is often clear. So what is the method, or the one that regulates this station for the student of knowledge?
The Shaykh : The method, may Allah bless you, is that if the ruling is established by another text, the Shari'ah is one and its source is one. Here, there is no evidence for the obligation of the fidyah (ransom payment) in general; I am saying this in general. When we find a text that does not contain a condition that establishes this condition, it is not considered if the need arises to explain it. But if another evidence comes to us indicating the obligation, we take it. For example, we have the hadith of the one who messed up his prayer, which contains many obligatory things that were not mentioned in it, but by other texts. The tashahhud (testification recited while sitting in prayer) is obligatory, as Ibn 'Abbas said before the tashahhud was made obligatory upon us, and yet it was not mentioned in the hadith of the one who messed up his prayer.
The questioner : Should we say that if one follows the evidence, it becomes clear?
The Shaykh : He who stops at what he has heard has done well, and a person is not burdened with more than he can bear, but generally, something arises in a person's mind based on the general principles he understands, so he needs to research.
Source
قناة «فضيلة الشيخ محمد بن صالح العثيمين»، [3110] كيفية التعامل مع الحكم الذي لا دليل عليه في نص معين وله ما يدل عليه من رواية أخرى -ابن عثيمين — youtube.com
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