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28 foes, his neighbours, his brothers, his close companions, or his mater- nal aunts and mothers, his paternal aunts or his sisters, or all those who lived in those places, towns, and dwellings. We do not find any of them alive in this age. Thus, who- ever claims that only Jesus, out of all of them, survived and did not die, he declares him as an excep- tion. Therefore, it lies upon him to prove this claim. You are aware that according to the Hanafis, there are four types of arguments to estab- lish the claims of the claimants, as is not hidden from scholars. First: [The argument that is] qa t ‘ i ath-thub u t wad-dal a- lah [ decisive in both authentic- ity and implication] which is free from every flaw and defect. For example, unambiguous Quranic verses as well as those a ha d i th that are mutaw a tir [possessing numerous uninterrupted chains] and s a hih [authentic]—with the proviso that they are independ- ent of the interpretations of the interpreters and free from such وجیرانه وأحبّائه أعدائه من وخاالته وخالنه وإخوانه وأمهاته وعمّاته وأخواته، وكل البلدان تلك في كان من والدیار والعمران، كلهم ماتوا وما نری أحدًا منهم في هذا الزمان؛ فمَن ادّعی أن ّ عیسی بقي منهم حیًّا وما دخل في الموتی فقد استثنی، فعلیه أن یُثبت هذا الدعوی. وأنت تعلم إ ثبات ال أن االٔدلة عند الحنفیّین انواع ار بعة المدّعین ادعاء كما ال یخفی علی المتفقهین. ّ الثبوت قطعي االٔوّل والداللة ولیس فیها شيء من یات آ ال كا والالكلة، الضعف القرآنیة الصر یحة، واالٔحادیث بشرط الصحیحة، المتواترة