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Motivated by recent indications that the rates of colour-allowed non-leptonic channels are in tension with their Standard Model predictions based on QCD factorisation, we investigate the potential to study CP asymmetries with these decays. In the Standard Model, these flavour-specific decays are sensitive to CP violation in $B^0_{(s)}$--$\bar{B}^0_{(s)}$ mixing, which is predicted with low uncertainties and can be measured precisely with semileptonic decays. Allowing beyond Standard Model contributions to the non-leptonic decay amplitudes, we derive explicit expressions for the flavour-specific CP asymmetries in a model-independent way. We find that BSM contributions could lead to significant enhancements to the CP asymmetries. Therefore measurements of these quantities and subsequent comparison with the CP asymmetries measured with semileptonic decays have potential to identify BSM effects without relying on Standard Model predictions that might be affected by hadronic effects. In addition, we discuss the experimental prospects, and note the excellent potential for a precise determination of the CP asymmetry in $\bar{B}_s \to D_s^+ \pi^-$ decays by the LHCb experiment.