لا صَلَاةَ إِلَّا بِفَاتِحَةِ الْكِتَابِ
There is no prayer without the Opening of the Book.
On its face, the report attaches a particular requirement to al-Fātiḥah. It therefore raises the methodological question of how a general Qurʾānic command relates to a specific prophetic report.
In the Hanafi reasoning presented here, the report is not read as restricting the general Qurʾānic obligation so completely that the prayer is necessarily invalid whenever al-Fātiḥah is omitted. Instead, its force is recognized at a distinct level of obligation.