The Book of Mosques and Places of Prayer-06a

The reciter: And 'Abd ibn Humayd narrated to us, Yunus ibn Muhammad narrated to us, Hammad ibn Salama narrated to us from Ayyub from Nafi' from Ibn 'Umar: .

The Shaykh : This is like the first one. The counting of fifty-three was not fully grasped by him, but it is known among the Arabs; they mention numbers by counting on their fingers, like this or that or that. The author of *Subul al-Salam* mentioned it when discussing this hadith, and it is difficult to visualize, because we have not grasped it practically, and looking into these matters is difficult for a person.
And his saying: : does not contradict the generality of the first wording, which is 'Abdullah from Nafi'—this is Ayyub from Nafi', and that is 'Abdullah from Nafi'—because mentioning some individuals of a general category with a ruling that does not contradict the general category does not necessitate specification, as the scholars of usul al-fiqh mentioned, and they said: if I said, "Honor the students," and then I said, "Honor Zayd," and he is among them, this does not contradict specifying the honor for Zayd. So here we say: when he sat in the prayer, it was not restricted by his saying "in the tashahhud." As for the second wording: when he sat in the tashahhud, it is restricted, but it does not contradict the generality of the first wording.