Sometimes al-Bukhari titles a chapter by explicitly stating it and presents the hadith as a prohibition, such as the chapter on eating while reclining. Why is that?
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The questioner : Sometimes al-Bukhari titles a chapter as if he is explicitly stating the matter and presents the hadith as a prohibition, in the chapter on eating while reclining, and the hadith is like a prohibition. Here he says the hadith is the chapter on blowing into barley, and he presents the hadith as permission to blow... the chapter?
The Shaykh : How is it permission to blow?! That is what contradicts the chapter on eating while reclining, meaning what is the ruling of this meaning?
The questioner : He presents the hadith as a prohibition.
The Shaykh : This is how he clarifies its ruling.
The questioner : In many chapters.
The Shaykh : There is nothing in them; the ruling is the same whether the title affirms it or denies it. Yes, yes.
The Shaykh : How is it permission to blow?! That is what contradicts the chapter on eating while reclining, meaning what is the ruling of this meaning?
The questioner : He presents the hadith as a prohibition.
The Shaykh : This is how he clarifies its ruling.
The questioner : In many chapters.
The Shaykh : There is nothing in them; the ruling is the same whether the title affirms it or denies it. Yes, yes.