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﴿ فَاسْأَلُوا أَهْلَ الذِّكْرِ إِن كُنتُمْ لَا تَعْلَمُونَ ﴾

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There are many beautiful theoretical conditions, but they are not applied because they are difficult to achieve.

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The Shaykh : This is a matter that often happens; some people, especially, set out beautiful theoretical conditions and then do not uphold them because they are difficult to achieve. For example, the Hanafis hold in their principles of jurisprudence that it is not permissible to specify a mass-transmitted text with a limited-chain report, yet you see them in their detailed legal rulings contradicting this rule. In fact, no jurist can consistently apply this rule and say that it is not valid to restrict a mass-transmitted text with a limited-chain text. For instance, they forbid gold and silk, and even silver, for men, despite the saying of Allah the Exalted:
Say, "Who has forbidden the adornment of Allah which He has produced for His servants and the good [lawful] things of provision?" Say, "They are for those who believe during the worldly life [but] exclusively for them on the Day of Resurrection." قل من حرّم زينة الله التي أخرج لعباده والطيبات من الرزق قل هي للذين آمنوا في الحياة الدنيا خالصة يوم القيامة
[Al-A'raf 7:32]
So where is this rule they established but did not adhere to in the case of forbidding gold, and even forbidding silver, which we see is lawful for men except for silver vessels? Is this example clear?
Source alathar.net

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