proof: The "ayah of imprecation" (li'an) — an-Nur 6 — replaces the four witnesses requirement, but only for one kind of person — the husband of the alleged adulteress. It allowing him to pursue charges of zina against his wife provided he takes four different oaths to tell the truth and invoked the curse of God upon himself if he is telling a lie. This partially repeals Ayah Q.24:4. takhsees Takhsees ['specification', also spelled takhsis] and istithnā (exception) resemble "partial naskh" described above. Like partial naskh, takhsees qualifies a general ruling [aam], so that it only applies in certain cases. Examples include the qualification of the Quranic injunction in Q.5:38 to amputate the hand of the thief, the takhsees given by Muhammad requires that the thief must have stole something above a certain value. the qualification on entering uninhabited houses. verse Q.24:27 states: 'Do not enter houses other than your houses,' but verse Q.24:29 gives an exception: 'There is no blame upon you for entering houses not inhabited in which there is convenience for you.' (At-Tabari) Takhees is sometimes called another name for partial naskh. However (according to Deen Communication Limited), Takhsees differs from naskh in that it may involve revelations making observations, predictions, etc., rather than laws and rulings [ahkaam]; it need not be revealed after the verse/hadith it is qualifying; and need not be restricted to the Qur"an or Sunnah, but may apply to ijmaa`, or qiyaas and may be based on common sense or ijtihaad. Naskh of ruling, Naskh of verse, or both Another set of types of naskh are those divided by what is abrogated — ruling, text, or both. (John Burton calls these the three "modes" of the theory of naskh.) 1. naskh al-hukm dūna al-tilāwa , also 'supersession' or ibdal. The types of naskh mentioned above involve abrogation of an Islamic regulation/ruling (hukm), but not the text it is based on. If the regulation/ruling is based on a Qur'ānic verse, that verse is still found in the Mus'haf (the written Quran). This mode of naskh — known as — has received widespread recognition, and has been called the "classic" mode of naskh. But there are two other less accepted (and much less common) varieties of naskh that do abrogate text, i.e. involve revealed verses that were omitted from the text of the Mus'haf(and thus creates a distinction between the Qur'an as temporally contingent document-i.e.