It is in his hands, he speaks by it, and acts by it, and narrates it.

It is in his hands, he speaks by it, and acts by it, and narrates it. He says, ‘I have heard this from the Messenger of Allah saww . If the Muslims think it to be imagination they should reject it, and if they know it to be from him saww then it is an obligation’. And the third man heard from the Messenger of Allah saww something that he saww ordered then prohibited it later on, and he did not know, or prohibited it, and then ordered it later on, and he did not know.

He memorised the abrogated and did not memorise the abrogating. Had he known it to have been abrogated, he would have rejected it, and had the people known that what they have heard from his is an abrogated order, they would have rejected it.

وآخر رابع لم يكذب على رسول الله ( صلى الله عليه وآله ) ، مبغض للكذب خوفا من الله ، وتعظيما لرسول الله ( صلى الله عليه وآله ) ، لم ينسه ، بل حفظ ما سمع على وجهه ، فجاء به كما سمعه ، لم يزد فيه ، ولم ينقص منه ، وعلم الناسخ من المنسوخ ، فعمل بالناسخ ، ورفض المنسوخ ، فان أمر النبي ( صلى الله عليه وآله ) مثل القرآن ، منه ناسخ ومنسوخ ، وخاص وعام ، ومحكم ومتشابه .

And lastly is the one who did not ascribe lies to the Messenger of Allah saww , hated lying due to his fear of Allah azwj , and respect for the Messenger of Allah saww , and did not forget it, but memorised what he had heard exactly. He went with it as he had heard it, did not add anything to it, and did not leave anything out from it, and knew the abrogating from the abrogated.

He acted upon the abrogating one, and rejected the abrogated one, for the order of the Prophet saww is similar to the Quran, from which there is the Abrogating and the Abrogated, and the special and the general, and Decisive and Allegorical.

وقد كان يكون من رسول الله ( صلى الله عليه وآله ) الكلام له وجهان ، وكلام عام ، وكلام خاص مثل القرآن ـ إلى أن قال : ـ فما نزلت على رسول الله ( صلى الله عليه وآله ) آية من القرآن إلا أقرأنيها وأملاها عليّ ، فكتبتها بخطي ، وعلمني تأويلها وتفسيرها ، وناسخها ومنسوخها ، ومحكمها ومتشابهها ، وخاصها وعامها ، ودعا الله لي أن يعطيني فهما وحفظا ، فما نسيت آية من كتاب الله ، ولا علما أملاه عليّ وكتبته . الحديث .