limiting the general by mentioning some of its individuals (تَخْصِيصُ الْعَامّ بِذِكْرِ بَعْضِ أَفْرَادِهِ)

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التعريف :

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This is a question of basic rules: ‘if a text gives a general ruling and another text confirms that the same ruling applies to some particular cases of that general ruling, is the general ruling then considered to apply to those particular cases but not others?’.