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The ruling on using the hadith of watering a dog as evidence for declaring major sins to be disbelief

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Question:
May Allah reward you, Your Eminence, father. The questioner says: In the hadith
The woman from the Children of Israelالمرأة التي من بني إسرائيل
she watered a dog, so Allah forgave her and admitted her to Paradise, can it be said that some righteous deeds expiate major sins?

Answer:
Which woman? Which woman from the Children of Israel? She was a Muslim, not a disbeliever. If she had been a disbeliever, Allah would not have forgiven her. But she was a Muslim, though she was a sinner or a wrongdoer. It is reported that she was a wrongdoer, meaning a transgressor. So Allah forgave her because of her kindness to this animal. However, one cannot derive a general ruling from this that a good deed causes Allah to expiate major sins. No, one cannot derive a general ruling from this. It may be a specific case for this particular woman, and Allah knows best. Yes.

Question:
I ask Allah for you, Your Eminence, the father. The questioner says.

Answer:
There is a rule: you do not take hadiths or verses in isolation from one another. It is necessary to combine the evidence in the issue; it is necessary to combine the evidence in the single issue. After that, one looks at their implications alongside the other evidence. As for the one who takes only one side, he follows the ambiguous.
He follows the ambiguous, which is a sign of deviation, and may Allah protect us from that. But the believer combines the texts, for the speech of Allah does not contradict itself, and the speech of the Messenger (peace and blessings be upon him) does not contradict itself. However, this requires knowledge; it requires jurisprudence and insight. Not everyone can cite the Qur'an or the Sunnah as evidence when he has no jurisprudence, no insight, and no knowledge of the known rules of deriving evidence. Yes.
Source قناة «العلامة الدكتور صالح الفوزان»، [2053- 4717] هل في حديث المرأة التي سقت الكلب فغفر لها دليل على أن الأعمال الصالحة تكفر الكبائر؟ — youtube.com

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