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How to reconcile the hadith “The one who performs cupping and the one who is cupped have broken their fast” with the hadith of Ibn 'Abbas that the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) was cupped while fasting?

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Question:
The questioner says: It is reported in al-Tirmidhi and Ibn Majah from Rafi' ibn Khadij from the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him)
The one who cups and the one who is cupped have broken their fast.قال أفطر الحاجم والمحجوم
Mishkat al-Masabih 2012
And in the hadith of Ibn 'Abbas, it is stated that the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him)
He was cupped while fasting, and in another narration, while in the state of ihram and fasting.احتجم وهو صائم، وفي رواية وهو محرم صائم،
The question is: How do you reconcile these two hadiths?

Answer:
The reconciliation between these two hadiths is that the narration “he was cupped while fasting” is an error; it is not authentic. Even if it is in al-Bukhari, this wording is not preserved, as Imam Ahmad says, and as Shaykh al-Islam Ibn Taymiyyah and Ibn al-Qayyim say. This narration, “while fasting,” is not preserved. The authentic version is that he was cupped while in the state of ihram only.
As for the narration “he was cupped while fasting,” it is not preserved. Therefore, Imam Muslim turned away from it and did not narrate it, while his teacher al-Bukhari narrated it. He turned away from it because it is not preserved. The authentic version is that the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) was cupped while in the state of ihram. This is the authentic version. So the saying of the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him), “The one who performs cupping and the one who is cupped have broken their fast,” remains on its original basis and in its proper category: that cupping breaks the fast, because it draws out the blood by which the human body is strengthened.
Source قناة «العلامة الدكتور صالح الفوزان»، كيف الجمع بين حديث «أفطر الحاجم والمحجوم» وحديث ابن عباس أن النبي صلى الله عليه وسلماحتجم وهو صائم؟ — youtube.com

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