Muʿjam al-Aḥādīth al-Muʿtabara - Book of Principles of Jurisprudence

Muʿjam al-Aḥādīth al-Muʿtabara - Book of Principles of Jurisprudence Chapter: Reasons for Differences between Narrations [-/1] الكافي: علي، عن أبيه، عن ابن أبي نجران، عن ابن ح٠، قال: قلت لأبي عبد الله عليه السلا٠ا بالي أسألك عن ال٠سألة فتجيبني فيها بالجواب ث٠يجيئك غيري فتجيبه فيها بجواب آخر؟ فقال: إنا نجيب الناس على الزيادة والنقصان.

قال: قلت: فأخبرني عن أصحاب رسول الله صلى الله عليه واله صدقوا على ٠د صلى الله عليه واله أ٠كذبوا ؟ قال: بل صدقوا قلت: ف٠أن الرجل كان يأتي رسول الله صلى الله عليه واله فيسأله عن ال٠سألة فيجيبه فيها بالجواب، ث٠ا ينسخ ذلك الجواب فنسخت الأحاديث بعضها بعضا 1.

[1/-] Ali from his father from Ibn Abi Najran from Asim b. Humayd from Mansur b. Hazim who said: I said to Abi Abdillah عليه السلاÙ: what is my condition – I ask you about a matter so you answer me in it with a certain answer, then someone other than me comes to you and you answer him with a different answer? He said: we answer the people with deletion [in-short] and [at other times] with addition [in-depth].

I said: so inform me about the companions of the messenger of Allah صلى الله عليه واله – were they truthful about Muhammad or did they lie? He said: they were truthful, I said: so what was the matter with them that they differed?

He said: don’t you know that a man used to come to the messenger of Allah صلى الله عليه واله and ask him about a thing so he answers him in it with an answer, then he answers after that with that which abrogates the former answer, so the narrations abrogated one another.