Retracting His Own Fatwa: The Feast Given by the Bride’s Family

Answer

Yet along with this there was not the least stubbornness or obstinacy in his own opinion. He would show his fatwas to men of learning; and if anyone offered counsel in the light of the evidence, he accepted it with the most open countenance, was glad of it, and was indeed grateful.

Source: Fatawa Mahmudiyya

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