[Machine] If you testify, there is determination, and if you entrust him, there is broadness and we were informed by Al-Hassan al-Basri that he said, "If he wishes, he testifies, and if he wishes, he does not testify. Do you not hear his statement, 'So if one of you entrusts the other'?" [Surah al-Baqarah 2:283]. Al-Shafi'i said, may Allah have mercy on him, and it has been preserved from the Prophet ﷺ that he pledged allegiance to a Bedouin in relation to a horse, and the Bedouin denied the orders of some hypocrites, and there was no evidence between them.  

إِنْ أَشَهَدْتَ فَحَزْمٌ وَإِنِ ائْتَمَنْتَهُ فَفِي حِلٍّ وَسَعَةٍ وَرُوِّينَا عَنِ الْحَسَنِ الْبَصْرِيِّ أَنَّهُ قَالَ إِنْ شَاءَ أَشْهَدَ وَإِنْ شَاءَ لَمْ يَشْهَدْ أَلَا تَسْمَعُ إِلَى قَوْلِهِ {فَإِنْ أَمِنَ بَعْضُكُمْ بَعْضًا} [البقرة 283]؟ قَالَ الشَّافِعِيُّ رَحِمَهُ اللهُ وَقَدْ حُفِظَ عَنِ النَّبِيِّ ﷺ أَنَّهُ بَايَعَ أَعْرَابِيًّا فِي فَرَسٍ فَجَحَدَ الْأَعْرَابِيُّ بِأَمْرِ بَعْضِ الْمُنَافِقِينَ وَلَمْ يَكُنْ بَيْنَهُمَا بَيِّنَةٌ