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 Post subject: Was 24:58 abrogated?
PostPosted: 25 Jan 2010, 05:27 
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As-Suyooti reports that some have said that 24:58 was abrogated but he doesn't say by which verse. This verse is about youngsters and servants having to get permission from adults before entering their private rooms. As-Suyooti says that other scholars have said that 24:58 was not abrogated but that people have neglected complying with it. He agrees that it has not been abrogated.

Here is the verse. I include it here for completion until I find a reference to its abrogator.


It doesn't make sense to me that a mandate be left unfollowed without authorities enforcing it, so I must conclude that either this verse does not mandate, which is my humble view, or that it has indeed been abrogated. But by what?

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 Post subject: Re: Was 24:58 abrogated?
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It doesn't make sense to me that a mandate be left unfollowed without authorities enforcing it

I am less worried about that part since if it is a mandate, it is in the privacy of people's homes so I don't see how it can be enforced by authorities.

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 Post subject: Re: Was 24:58 abrogated?
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Linguistic wrote:
It doesn't make sense to me that a mandate be left unfollowed without authorities enforcing it, so I must conclude that either this verse does not mandate, which is my humble view, or that it has indeed been abrogated. But by what?

As mentioned in this post, Ibn Abbaas has said that the command in 24:58 has been neglected by people. Perhaps that is what As-Suyooti meant when he said that it was abrogated. If so, that's not abrogation; that's people not following orders!

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 Post subject: Re: Was 24:58 abrogated?
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Linguistic wrote:
As mentioned in this post, Ibn Abbaas has said that the command in 24:58 has been neglected by people. Perhaps that is what As-Suyooti meant when he said that it was abrogated. If so, that's not abrogation; that's people not following orders!

Adding to the list of the modes of abrogation: Abrogation by negligence! It seems that abrogation has become an all-encompassing way to legitimize disobeying verses in the Quran.

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 Post subject: Who said what
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Ibn Abbaas (quoted by Shu`la, but he clearly meant contingent ruling).

Against:
Ibn Abbaas (implied),
Ash-Sha`bi, Jaabir ibn Abdillah and Ibn Zayd (accroding to Shu`la),
Sa`eed ibn Jabeer (quoted by Dr. Faaris),
Abu-`Ubayd (according to Dr. Faaris),
As-Suyooti,
Shah Waliullah Dehlvi,
Muhamamd Al-Khudhari (Bek).

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 Post subject: Re: Was 24:58 abrogated?
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Linguistic wrote:
As mentioned in this post, Ibn Abbaas has said that the command in 24:58 has been neglected by people. Perhaps that is what As-Suyooti meant when he said that it was abrogated. If so, that's not abrogation; that's people not following orders!

Adding to the list of the modes of abrogation: Abrogation by negligence! It seems that abrogation has become an all-encompassing way to legitimize disobeying verses in the Quran.

Dr. M. Ibrahim Faaris, in his book صفوة الراسخ في علم المنسوخ والناسخ, page 158 in the footnotes, quotes Abu-Ubayd and Sa`eed ibn Jabeer saying that 24:58 was not abrogated but rather neglected. Abu-Abdillah Shu`la quoted Ash-Sha`bi, Jaabir and Ibn Zayd saying the same thing.

Shu`la also adds that what Ibn Abbaas said was that 24:58 was necessary when people did not have doors to their rooms, but when they did, asking permission to enter a room was no longer necessary, therefore the verse is abrogated. Shu`la then says, and I'm not sure if it's his words or he was still quoting Ibn Abbaas, that if people don't have doors again to their rooms, then the verse's mandate comes back.

Well, that is not abrogation. That's contingent ruling. Thus, either Ibn Abbaas or Shu`la used the word naskh to describe a contingent ruling. From what I learned about Ibn Abbaas over the years, it sounds to me that it was he who made that argument and that he was right. Naskh can mean abrogation but can also mean contingent ruling.

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