Mesorat%20hashas for Shabbat 282:13

אלא לאביי דאמר לצורך גופו מותר לצורך מקומו אסור מאי איכא למימר

This is well according to Raba, who maintained: It is permitted [to handle] an article whose function is for a forbidden purpose, whether it is required itself or for its place: then it is correct. But on Abaye's view that it may be [handled] for itself, but it is forbidden [to handle it] when its place is required,<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' V. notes supra 123b. ');">¹¹</span>

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