Combining and preferring when evidence conflicts
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The questioner:
The Shaykh’s case regarding the issue of response: if combining is not possible unless the combining is crushed, what is the combining of the hadiths?
The Shaykh:
That is not combining; this is a case where there is combining, there is preferring. The scholars say that when evidence conflicts, one proceeds to combining if possible. If combining is not possible, one proceeds to preferring, taking the stronger position and leaving the weaker position. If preferring is difficult, one proceeds to abrogation, looking at which is the earlier and which is the later, and acting on the later, meaning it becomes appropriate. This is the hall. Yes, what we have now is not combining, but rather preferring. Yes.
The Shaykh’s case regarding the issue of response: if combining is not possible unless the combining is crushed, what is the combining of the hadiths?
The Shaykh:
That is not combining; this is a case where there is combining, there is preferring. The scholars say that when evidence conflicts, one proceeds to combining if possible. If combining is not possible, one proceeds to preferring, taking the stronger position and leaving the weaker position. If preferring is difficult, one proceeds to abrogation, looking at which is the earlier and which is the later, and acting on the later, meaning it becomes appropriate. This is the hall. Yes, what we have now is not combining, but rather preferring. Yes.
Source
شرح بلوغ المرام من أدلة الأحكام [ صالح الفوزان ]، تابع كتاب الصيام - 1 — islamhouse.com (55:12)
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