What are the conditions of the rule: "The absence of mention is not a mention of non-existence"?
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The Shaykh : No, I mean, if the situation required that something be mentioned but it was not mentioned, yet it is clarified in other hadiths, it must be clarified. For example, if this ruling is clarified in other hadiths, and then this evidence comes and does not mention it, and someone wants to use this hadith to contradict what was mentioned in the other texts, we say there is no contradiction, because the absence of mention is not a mention of non-existence. It does not mean that one establishes something that the evidence has not established; that is prohibited in the chapter of worship. Their saying that "the absence of mention is not a mention of non-existence" is so that it is not used to contradict the texts that mention this matter.
The Shaykh : No, I mean, if the situation required that something be mentioned but it was not mentioned, yet it is clarified in other hadiths, it must be clarified. For example, if this ruling is clarified in other hadiths, and then this evidence comes and does not mention it, and someone wants to use this hadith to contradict what was mentioned in the other texts, we say there is no contradiction, because the absence of mention is not a mention of non-existence. It does not mean that one establishes something that the evidence has not established; that is prohibited in the chapter of worship. Their saying that "the absence of mention is not a mention of non-existence" is so that it is not used to contradict the texts that mention this matter.