«لِفُلَانٍ عَلَيَّ أَلْفٌ لَا بَلْ أَلْفَانِ»
“I owe so-and-so one thousand—no, rather two thousand.”
An admission of debt is treated differently from an operative divorce declaration. In the principal Hanafi view presented here, the first statement of an amount of the same kind can be corrected by the second; the two amounts are not automatically added to make three thousand. The admitted amount is two thousand.
Imam Zufar is reported as holding that three thousand are owed in this example. The dispute turns on the extent of permissible correction and the effect of the first admission.