He also said:

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As for “the abrogation of the Quran by the Sunnah,” al-Shāfi‘ī does not permit it, nor does Ahmad according to the best-known position reported from him, though he permits it according to another report. This is also the position of the followers of Abū Hanīfah and others. They have argued for it on the grounds that the injunction to make a bequest to parents and close relatives was abrogated by the statement:

“Allah has given everyone entitled to a share their due, so no bequest may be made to an heir.”

This is mistaken. Rather, it was abrogated by the verse concerning inheritance, as the early generations agreed. For, after mentioning the prescribed shares, Allah says:

“These are the limits set by Allah. Whoever obeys Allah and His Messenger, He will admit them into Gardens beneath which rivers flow, to abide therein forever. That is the great triumph.”

“But whoever disobeys Allah and His Messenger and transgresses His limits, He will admit him into a Fire, to abide therein forever, and he will have a humiliating punishment.”

By declaring the prescribed shares to be His limits and forbidding their transgression, He made it clear that no one may be given more than Allah has allotted them. This is the meaning of the Prophet’s words, may Allah bless him and grant him peace:

“Allah has given everyone entitled to a share their due, so no bequest may be made to an heir.”

Taken on its own, however, this hadith was narrated only by Abū Dāwūd and other compilers of Sunan collections; it is not