«فَتَحْرِيرُ رَقَبَةٍ»
Then freeing a slave.
«فَتَحْرِيرُ رَقَبَةٍ مُؤْمِنَةٍ»
Then freeing a believing slave.
The wording for some expiations mentions a slave without specifying faith, whereas the expiation for accidental killing specifies a believing slave. Can that qualification automatically be carried into other expiations?
The Hanafi analysis resists qualifying the unrestricted Quranic command by mere analogy. The Shafiʿi method may correlate the expiations and extend the faith qualification through its own reasoning.