Text copied Link copied

Al-Fatawa – home

﴿ فَاسْأَلُوا أَهْلَ الذِّكْرِ إِن كُنتُمْ لَا تَعْلَمُونَ ﴾

Scholar
Search mode

Can a verse be abrogated by a solitary report?

Machine translationRead the Arabic original
The questioner : Our brother asks: Can a verse be abrogated by a solitary report?

The Shaykh : There is no difference between the Qur'an and the Sunnah in the view of the scholars of the Salaf, because both spring from a single source. The important thing is that the hadith be authentic. An example that is appropriate to mention here, though it involves a degree of restriction, is the saying of the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him):
There is no bequest for an heir لا وصية لوارث
The Qur'anic text encompasses people in its statement:
a bequest for the parents and near relatives الْوَصِيَّةُ لِلْوَالِدَيْنِ وَالْأَقْرَبِينَ
[Al-Baqarah 2:180]
When inheritance came, it abrogated the bequest to the parents by virtue of his (peace and blessings be upon him) saying:
There is no bequest for an heir. لا وصيَّة لوارث
That is, it is not permissible for a Muslim who has wealth to bequeath any of it to someone who inherits from him; there is no bequest for an heir. This clarifies that a part of the verse is abrogated. This is called restriction in the terminology of the scholars. In reality, there is no difference between abrogation and restriction, because as is said regarding some general terms: "All roads lead to the mill." That is, a ruling explicitly stated in the Qur'an is lifted by a hadith, whether the lifting is called restriction, specification, or abrogation.
Other than that?
Source www.al-albany.com

The Arabic text is copied verbatim from the original source, without any edits.

Similar fatwas