How can one reconcile the saying that it is recommended to have witnesses to a debt, with the Hadith that mentions that whoever has money owed to him by a man and does not have witnesses to it, his supplication will not be answered, knowing that this Hadith is a strong text and was authenticated by Al-Albani, and is this Hadith abrogated or does it have another interpretation?
The verse of debt (Ayat al-Dayn) is not abrogated, and the command within it is for recommendation, not obligation.
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