It is clear that Allah is not forgetful and therefore has not omitted any other food because of forgetting it; as He has said: ﴿وَمَا كَانَ رَبُّكَ نَسِيًّا﴾[1]; “And your Lord is not forgetful.” Thus, generalizing these four foods to dozens of other foods through the Sunnah of the Prophet—which is often not widely transmitted and accessible to a limited number of people—is unreasonable and contrary to Allah’s justice and grace. The only exceptions are when other foods are mentioned as detested for the purpose of discouragement, since in that case, there is no contradiction between the two; or when the ruling of the Quran is general and based on a criterion, as in His saying: ﴿وَيُحَرِّمُ عَلَيْهِمُ الْخَبَائِثَ﴾[2]; “And He makes impure things unlawful for them.” In such a case, the ruling of the Sunnah of the Prophet is actually not a generalization of the ruling of the Quran, but rather an instruction to its other examples, in view of the existence of its criterion in them and the possibility of adherence to it in them if its existence is certain—such as the prohibition of human excrement and all other things whose impurity is certain, even though they are not mentioned alongside the four foods, and the principle is that impurity is restricted to them—to the extent that it is not unlikely that eating other things is undesirable, not religiously illegal; just as eating rotten and bitter things is not unlawful, but rather undesirable and unfit for the taste of most people.

[The Necessity of Assessing Narrations Against the Quran]

From here, it is understood that the Quran has not been abrogated, specified, or generalized by the Sunnah. Therefore, narrations that wholly or partially conflict with the Quran are not acceptable, nor are they considered part of the Sunnah. Examples include narrations that abrogate the obligation of a waiting period after every divorce by permitting three divorces in a single sitting; that abrogate the permissibility of enjoying women or marrying women from among the People of the Book by prohibiting both; that restrict the impossibility of seeing Allah with the eyes to the worldly life; that restrict the prohibition of inclining toward oppressors to those other than rulers;