«العدد والعدالة»
The required number of witnesses and their integrity—both.
«إما العدد أو العدالة»
Either number or integrity—one of the two.
The distinction between these expressions carries the governing point. For adversarial disputes in the second category, and joins two conditions. For agency revocation and restriction in the fourth, or states alternatives in the principle attributed to Imam Abu Hanifa.
The rule for judicially proving a disputed financial claim cannot therefore be copied mechanically into the context of communicating an agent’s revocation. The two settings differ in the way compulsion arises.