Differences of Opinion among Prominent Scholars over the Abrogation

of Particular Qur’anic Verses

Abrogated
        
Forgive and be indulgent (toward them) until Allah gives command.
2:109
Abrogator
       

     

        

  
Then, when the sacred months have passed, slay the idolaters
wherever you find them, and take them (captive), and besiege them,
and prepare for them each ambush. But if they repent and establish
prayer and pay zakaah, then leave their way free. 9:5
Agree Disagree
Nahhaas Ibn al-Jawzee
Makee ibn Abee Taalib Suyootee
Shah Waliullaah
Zarqaanee
Abrogated
            
Unto Allah belong the East and the West, and wheresoever you turn,
there is Allah’s Countenance. Indeed, Allah is All-Embracing, All-
Knowing. 2:115
Abrogator
         

       

We have seen the turning of your face to heaven (for guidance, O
Muhammad). And now verily We will make you turn (in prayer)
toward a qiblah which is dear to you. So turn your face toward the
Inviolable Place of Worship, and you (O Muslims), wheresoever you
may be, turn your faces toward it (when you pray). 2:144
 Agree Disagree
Makee ibn Abee Taalib Nahhaas
Ibn al-Jawzee
Suyootee
Shah Waliullaah
Zarqaanee
Abrogated
         

       

 
180 It is prescribed for you, when death approaches one of you, if he
leave wealth, that he bequeath to parents and near relatives in
kindness. (This is) a duty for all those who ward off (evil).
Abrogator
       

        

     

7 To the men (of a family) belongs a share of what parents and near
kindred leave, and to the women a share of what parents and near
kindred leave, whether it be little or much – a legal share.
Agree Disagree
Makee ibn Abee Taalib Ibn al-Jawzee
Nahhaas
Suyootee
Shah Waliullaah
Zarqaanee
Abrogated
        

       

183 O you who believe! Fasting is prescribed for you, even as it was
prescribed for those before you, that you may ward off (evil);
Abrogator
         
         

       

         

         

     

It is made lawful for you to go in to your wives on the night of the
fast. They are raiment for you and you are raiment for them. Allah is
Aware that you were deceiving yourselves in this respect and He has
turned in mercy toward you and relieved you. So hold intercourse
with them and seek what Allah has ordained for you, and eat and
drink until the white thread becomes distinct to you from the black
thread of the dawn. Then strictly observe the fast till nightfall. 2:187
Agree Disagree
Makee ibn Abee Taalib Ibn al-Jawzee
Nahhaas Shah Waliullaah
Suyootee Zarqaanee
Abrogated
       
…and for those who can afford it there is a ransom: the feeding of a
man in need…2:184
Abrogator
        

        

 
The month of Ramadan in which was revealed the Qur’an, a guidance
for mankind, and clear proofs of the guidance, and the Criterion (of
right and wrong). And whoever of you is present, let him fast the
month… 2:185
Agree Disagree
Makee ibn Abee Taalib Shah Waliullaah
Nahhaas
Suyootee
Ibn al-Jawzee
 Zarqaanee
Abrogated
         

 
And fight not with them at the Inviolable Place of Worship until they
first attack you there, but if they attack you (there) then slay them.
2:191
Abrogator
          
And fight them until persecution is no more, and religion is for Allah.
2:193
Agree Disagree
Makee ibn Abee Taalib Shah Waliullaah
Nahhaas Suyootee
Ibn al-Jawzee
Zarqaanee
Abrogated
           

        

         

 
They question you (O Muhammad) with regard to warfare in the
sacred month. Say: Warfare therein is a great (transgression), but to
turn (men) from the way of Allah, and to disbelieve in Him and in the
Inviolable Place of Worship, and to expel His people thence, is a
greater with Allah; for persecution is worse than killing. 2:217
Abrogator
     
Then, when the sacred months have passed, slay the idolaters
wherever you find them. 9:5
Agree Disagree
Makee ibn Abee Taalib Shah Waliullaah
Nahhaas Zarqaanee
Suyootee
Ibn al-Jawzee
 Abrogated
      

       

(In the case of) those of you who are about to die and leave behind
them wives, they should bequeath to their wives a provision for the
year without turning them out. 2:240
Abrogator
       

    

Such of you as die and leave behind them wives, they (the wives) will
wait, keeping themselves apart, four months and ten days. 2:234
Agree Disagree
Makee ibn Abee Taalib Shah Waliullaah
Nahhaas
Suyootee
Ibn al-Jawzee
Zarqaanee
Abrogated
          

 
…and whether you make known what is in your minds or hide it,
Allah will bring you to account for it. 2:284
Abrogator
       
Allah tasks not a soul beyond its scope. 2:286
Agree Disagree
Suyootee Shah Waliullaah
Zarqaanee Ibn al-Jawzee
Makee ibn Abee Taalib
Nahhaas
Abrogated
         
O you who believe, keep your duty to Allah as much as He has the
right to be feared. 2:102
Abrogator
     
So keep your duty to Allah as best you can… 63:16
Agree Disagree
Suyootee Shah Waliullaah
Zarqaanee Ibn al-Jawzee
Makee ibn Abee Taalib
Nahhaas
Abrogated
      

       

         

       

         

As for those of your women who are guilty of lewdness, call to
witness four of you against them. And if they testify (to the truth of
the allegation) then confine them to the houses until death take them
or (until) Allah appoint for them a way (through new legislation).
And as for the two of you who are guilty thereof, punish them both.
And if they repent and improve, then let them be. Indeed, Allah is
ever relenting, Merciful. 4:15-6
Abrogator
         
The [unmarried] man and [unmarried] woman found guilty of illicit
intercourse, whip each one of them a hundred lashes. 24:2
Agree Disagree
Suyootee Shah Waliullaah
Zarqaanee
Ibn al-Jawzee
Makee ibn Abee Taalib
Nahhaas
Abrogated
      
And to each We have appointed heirs of what parents and near
kindred leave; and as for those with whom your right hands have
made a covenant, give them their due. 4:33
Abrogator
         
…and those who are akin are nearer one to another in the ordinance
of Allah. 8:75

Agree Disagree
Suyootee Shah Waliullaah
Zarqaanee
Ibn al-Jawzee
Makee ibn Abee Taalib
Nahhaas
Abrogated
        

    

O you who believe! Do not approach prayer when you are drunken,
till you know what you say… 4:43
Abrogator
       

      

  
90 O you who believe! Strong drink and games of chance and idols
and divining arrows are only an infamy of Satan’s handiwork. Leave
it aside in order that you may succeed.
Agree Disagree
Ibn al-Jawzee Shah Waliullaah
Makee ibn Abee Taalib Zarqaanee
Nahhaas Suyootee
Abrogated
         

        

Those are the ones, the secrets of whose hearts Allah knows. So
oppose them and admonish them, and address them in plain terms
about their souls. 4:63
Abrogator
     
[S]lay the idolaters wherever you find them... 9:5
Agree Disagree
Ibn al-Jawzee Shah Waliullaah
 Zarqaanee
Suyootee
Makee ibn Abee Taalib
Nahhaas
Abrogated
       
So leave them alone and put your trust in Allah. 4:81
Abrogator
     
[S]lay the idolaters wherever you find them... 9:5
Agree Disagree
Ibn al-Jawzee Shah Waliullaah
Makee ibn Abee Taalib Zarqaanee
Suyootee
Nahhaas
Abrogated
         

      

         

        

       

        

         

      

     

if they turn back (to enmity) then take them and kill them wherever
you find them, and choose no friend nor helper from among them,
90 Except those who seek refuge with a people between whom and
you there is a covenant, or (those who) come to you because their
hearts forbid them to make war on you or make war on their own
people. Had Allah willed He could have given them power over you
so that assuredly they would have fought you. So, if they hold aloof
from you and wage not war against you and offer you peace, Allah
allows you no way against them.
91 You will find others who desire that they should have security
from you, and security from their own people. So often as they are
returned to hostility they are plunged therein. If they keep not aloof
from you nor offer you peace nor hold their hands, then take them
and kill them wherever you find them. Against such We have given
you clear warrant.
Abrogator
     
[S]lay the idolaters wherever you find them... 9:5
Agree Disagree
Ibn al-Jawzee Shah Waliullaah
Makee ibn Abee Taalib Zarqaanee
Nahhaas Suyootee

Abrogated
          

        

    

O you who believe! Profane not Allah’s monuments nor the Sacred
Month nor the offerings nor the garlands, nor those repairing to the
Sacred House, seeking the grace and pleasure of their Lord. 5:2
Abrogator
     
[S]lay the idolaters wherever you find them... 9:5
Agree Disagree
Ibn al-Jawzee Shah Waliullaah
Suyootee Zarqaanee
Nahhaas
Makee ibn Abee Taalib
Abrogated
        
If they come to you [for judgment, Muhammad] judge between them
or disclaim jurisdiction. 5:42
Abrogator
       
 So judge between them by what Allah has revealed… 5:49
Agree Disagree
Suyootee Shah Waliullaah
Zarqaanee
Ibn al-Jawzee
Nahhaas
Makee ibn Abee Taalib
Abrogated
        

        

        

 
106 O you who believe! Let there be witnesses between you when
death draws near to one of you, at the time of bequest – two
witnesses, just men from among you, or two others from another
[religion], in case you are traveling through the land and the calamity
of death befalls you.
Abrogator
     
and call to witness two just men from among you…65:2
Agree Disagree
Shah Waliullaah
Suyootee
Zarqaanee
Ibn al-Jawzee
Nahhaas
Makee ibn Abee Taalib
Abrogated
        

        

        

And when you see those who meddle with Our revelations, withdraw
from them until they meddle with another topic. And if the devil
cause you to forget, sit not, after the remembrance, with the
congregation of wrong-doers. 6:68
 Abrogator
     
[S]lay the idolaters wherever you find them... 9:5
Agree Disagree
Ibn al-Jawzee Shah Waliullaah
Zarqaanee
Nahhaas
Makee ibn Abee Taalib
Suyootee
Abrogated
             

   

Follow what is inspired in you from your Lord; there is no God but
Him; and turn away from the idolaters. 6:106
Abrogator
     
[S]lay the idolaters wherever you find them... 9:5
Agree Disagree
Ibn al-Jawzee Shah Waliullaah
Zarqaanee
Nahhaas
Makee ibn Abee Taalib
Suyootee
Abrogated
        

     

         

   

He it is Who produces gardens trellised and untrellised, and the date-
palm, and crops of diverse flavor, and the olive and the pomegranate,
like and unlike. Eat you of the fruit thereof when it fruits, and pay the
due thereof upon the harvest day…6:141
Abrogator
       
       

      

Zakaah is only for the poor and the needy, and those who collect it,
and those whose hearts are to be reconciled, and to free the captives
and the debtors, and for the cause of Allah, and (for) the wayfarer; a
duty imposed by Allah. 9:60
Agree Disagree
Nahhaas Shah Waliullaah
Zarqaanee
Ibn al-Jawzee
Makee ibn Abee Taalib
Suyootee
Abrogated
         
They ask you (O Muhammad) about the spoils of war. Say: The
spoils of war belong to Allah and the Messenger… 8:1
Abrogator
         

     

 
And know that whatever you take as spoils of war, indeed, a fifth
thereof is for Allah, and for the Messenger and for the kinsman (who
has need) and orphans and the needy and the wayfarer 8:41
Agree Disagree
Nahhaas Shah Waliullaah
Zarqaanee
Ibn al-Jawzee
Makee ibn Abee Taalib
Suyootee
Abrogated
      
And if they incline to peace, incline you also to it… 8:61
Abrogator
     
[S]lay the idolaters wherever you find them... 9:5
 Agree Disagree
Nahhaas Shah Waliullaah
Zarqaanee
Ibn al-Jawzee
Makee ibn Abee Taalib
Suyootee
Abrogated
         

        

        

  
O Prophet! Exhort the believers to fight. If there be of you twenty
steadfast they will overcome two hundred, and if there be of you a
hundred (steadfast) they will overcome a thousand of those who
disbelieve, because they (the disbelievers) are a people without
intelligence. 8:65
Abrogator
          

         

          

Now has Allah lightened your burden, for He knows that there is
weakness in you. So if there be of you a steadfast hundred they will
overcome two hundred, and if there be of you a thousand (steadfast)
they will overcome two thousand by permission of Allah. Allah is
with the steadfast. 8:66
Agree Disagree
Shah Waliullaah Nahhaas
Suyootee Ibn al-Jawzee
Zarqaanee Makee ibn Abee Taalib
Abrogated
          

  
And those who believed but did not leave their homes, you have no
duty to protect them till they leave their homes… 8:72
 Abrogator
         
…and those who are akin are nearer one to another in the ordinance
of Allah. 8:75

Agree Disagree
Shah Waliullaah Zarqaanee
Nahhaas Makee ibn Abee Taalib
Ibn al-Jawzee Suyootee

Abrogated
       

  
Go forth, light-armed and heavy-armed, and strive with your wealth
and your lives in the way of Allah! 9:41
Abrogator
          

        

      

122 And the believers should not all go out to fight. Of every troop of
them, a party only should go forth, that they may gain sound
knowledge in religion, and that they may warn their people when they
return to them, so that they may beware.
Agree Disagree
Suyootee Zarqaanee
Makee ibn Abee Taalib
Shah Waliullaah
Nahhaas
Ibn al-Jawzee
Abrogated
     
So forgive, (O Muhammad), with a gracious forgiveness. 15:85
Abrogator
     
[S]lay the idolaters wherever you find them... 9:5
 Agree Disagree
Nahhaas Shah Waliullaah
Ibn al-Jawzee Zarqaanee
Makee ibn Abee Taalib Suyootee
Abrogated
     
…and withdraw from the idolaters. 15:94
Abrogator
     
[S]lay the idolaters wherever you find them... 9:5
Agree Disagree
Nahhaas Shah Waliullaah
Ibn al-Jawzee Zarqaanee
Makee ibn Abee Taalib Suyootee
Abrogated
     
…and reason with them in the better way. 16:125
Abrogator
     
[S]lay the idolaters wherever you find them... 9:5
Agree Disagree
Nahhaas Shah Waliullaah
Zarqaanee
Suyootee
Ibn al-Jawzee
Makee ibn Abee Taalib
Abrogated
          

          

The adulterer will not marry other than an adulteress or an idolatress,
and the adulteress none will marry other than an adulterer or an
idolater. All that is forbidden to believers. 24:3
Abrogator
      

 
And marry the unmarried among you and the pious of your male and
female slaves. 24:32