In summary, the claim that the hadiths prohibiting gold for women have been abrogated is utterly without evidence; indeed, it runs contrary to the principles of uṣūl (legal theory). What is required is to reconcile those reports with the narrations that permit gold for women by reading the unrestricted in light of the restricted, or the general in light of the specific, as we have already explained. The result is that every form of gold is lawful for women except al-muḥallaq (jewellery that forms a continuous circle), just as it is unanimously forbidden for them to use utensils made of gold or silver. Accordingly, we maintain that there is no abrogation—contrary to what the Doctor understood and on which he based his entire discussion, as his preceding remarks about the supposed contradiction clearly show. Allah is the Guide; there is no Lord but Him.

Refuting the earlier hadiths with permissive narrations—and the reply to that

3. Some people attempt to dismiss these hadiths by citing other reports that allow al-muḥallaq of gold for women. Our answer is that those reports most certainly pre-date the prohibition, and the explanation is as follows:

It is self-evident that a prohibition concerning something capable of being lawful or unlawful can only be issued after an initial period of permissibility; therefore, to cling to that earlier state at the time of the later prohibition is an explicit contradiction.