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al-Nu'man ibn Bashir al-Ansari

النعمان بن بشير الأنصاري

A companion of the Prophet from the Ansar; he transmits the hadith 'the lawful is clear and the unlawful is clear and between them are doubtful matters', the sixth hadith of al-Nawawi's Forty, transmitted from him by al-Sha'bi and included by both Shaykhs in their Sahihs; Ibn Rajab calls it the soundest hadith of its chapter.

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Arba'un 6 — the lawful is clear and the unlawful is clear

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The lawful, the unlawful and the doubtful· Arba'un 6 — the lawful is clear and the unlawful is clear

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  • Jami' al-Ulum wal-Hikam — Ibn Rajab al-Hanbali
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The lawful, the unlawful and the doubtful

The division of rulings and things into plainly lawful, plainly unlawful, and doubtful matters between them that many people cannot assign to either side though the firmly grounded in knowledge are not in doubt; Ibn Rajab gives as plainly lawful the good foods — crops, fruits, cattle — and marriage and concubinage when acquired by a valid contract; as plainly unlawful carrion, blood, pork, wine, marriage within the prohibited degrees, silk for men and unlawful gains such as usury, gambling, theft and usurpation; and as doubtful what is disputed as to its lawfulness — animals such as horses, mules, donkeys and the dabb lizard, intoxicating-when-abundant drinks, and disputed transactions such as 'ina and tawarruq — this being Ahmad's and Ishaq's and other imams' explanation of the doubtful; whoever avoids the doubtful clears his religion and honour, and whoever falls into it is like a shepherd at the edge of God's sanctuary.