What is the aspect of goodness or similitude in the verse that abrogates the ruling of stoning, and does that mean the nullification of the ruling of stoning?
Abrogation has types. There is that whose wording was abrogated but its ruling remained, and there is that whose ruling and wording were abrogated, or whose ruling was abrogated without its wording. Examples of what was abrogated in wording but not in ruling include the verse of stoning, and what came in Surat Al-Bayyinah: "Indeed, the religion with Allah is the Hanifiyyah, not Judaism, nor Christianity, nor Magianism, and whoever does good, it will not be disbelieved." As-Suyuti mentioned that the wisdom behind this appears in the obedience of the Ummah by hastening to sacrifice their lives through conjecture. Abrogation may occur without the abrogator being aware of it, such as the hadith "If the son of Adam had a valley of gold," and what was revealed concerning the martyrs of Bi'r Ma'unah. As-Suyuti responded to the verse in Surat Al-Baqarah by saying that everything confirmed in the Qur'an and not abrogated is a substitute for what was abrogated in its recitation. And everything that Allah abrogated from the Qur'an, which we do not know now, He has replaced with what we have learned and whose wording and meaning have reached us through continuous transmission. Abrogation is intended to mean the nullification of a thing and the removal of its last standing, or the removal of a thing without another taking its place, as in His saying, the Most High: ﴿Then Allah nullifies what Satan casts forth﴾. Many scholars have gone to the permissibility of abrogation without a substitute, while some scholars have gone to the view that abrogation does not occur except with a substitute.
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