How should one respond to those who say: Taking from the beard is established from five of the Companions?
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The questioner : The Shaykh ... b ... regarding not taking anything from the beard, they say that this action was not unique to Ibn 'Umar.
The Shaykh : Yes.
The questioner : Meaning, the narrators are five of the Companions.
The Shaykh : Yes.
The questioner : So what is the answer?
The Shaykh : Fine, I say that even if five hundred of the Companions had done it, the Companions were one hundred and twenty-four thousand. So if five, or ten, or twenty, or thirty, or fifty, or five hundred, or five thousand had done it.
The questioner : ... .
The Shaykh : Is there not consensus? If there is no consensus, then there is no doubt that the obligatory course is to adhere to the generality of the text.
The questioner : Do we say the same thing, O Shaykh?
The Shaykh : Yes?
The questioner : The action is not infallible.
The Shaykh : Yes.
The questioner : ... .
The Shaykh : Yes, what?
The Shaykh : Yes.
The questioner : Meaning, the narrators are five of the Companions.
The Shaykh : Yes.
The questioner : So what is the answer?
The Shaykh : Fine, I say that even if five hundred of the Companions had done it, the Companions were one hundred and twenty-four thousand. So if five, or ten, or twenty, or thirty, or fifty, or five hundred, or five thousand had done it.
The questioner : ... .
The Shaykh : Is there not consensus? If there is no consensus, then there is no doubt that the obligatory course is to adhere to the generality of the text.
The questioner : Do we say the same thing, O Shaykh?
The Shaykh : Yes?
The questioner : The action is not infallible.
The Shaykh : Yes.
The questioner : ... .
The Shaykh : Yes, what?