Can a Qur’anic Ruling Be Abrogated by Hadith?

Question

Question: A certain person holds the belief that a hadith of the Prophet ﷺ can by no means abrogate [a ruling of] the Noble Qur'an, and that if there were a hadith indicating that a hadith can serve as an abrogator (nasikh) of the Great Qur'an, we would consider such a hadith to be not the speech of a human being but the speech of Shaytan. The question is: what is the belief ('aqidah) of the People of Truth (ahl al-haqq)

Answer

Regarding the abrogation of the Book (Qur'an) by the Sunnah there is disagreement: according to the Hanafis it is permissible, according to the Shafi'is it is not. [ar]إِنَّمَا يَجُوزُ النَّسْخُ بِالْكِتَابِ وَالسُّنَّةِ مُتَّفَقًا وَمُخْتَلِفًا، فَيَجُوزُ نَسْخُ الْكِتَابِ بِالْكِتَابِ وَالسُّنَّةِ، وَكَذَا يَجُوزُ نَسْخُ السُّنَّةِ بِالسُّنَّةِ وَالْكِتَابِ، فَهِيَ أَرْبَعُ…

Source: Fatawa Mahmudiyya

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