Sayyiduna Hudhayfah (may Allah be pleased with him) said: One of three can give a fatwa. The one who has knowledge of the abrogating and abrogated. The people asked: Who is such a person? He replied: Sayyiduna Umar ibn al-Khattab (may Allah be pleased with him), or such a leader who has no choice but to give a fatwa, or a foolish person who takes it upon himself. Then Muhammad ibn Sirin (may Allah have mercy on him) said: I am not among those two (i.e., the ruler or governor), and I hope not to become the third (the foolish self-imposer) either.