• “Precautions are forbidden”: this does not follow; the second passage instructs avoidance.
• “Discard one Hadith immediately”: when reconciliation is possible, both are followed.
• “Invent a preferred meaning”: that is not reconciliation; the explanation must fit the wording and reliable scholarly explanation.
The definition requires that reconciliation be possible; it does not authorize independently resolving every apparent difference.
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Mukhtalif al-Ḥadīth: Reconciling Apparent Differences
• “Precautions are forbidden”: this does not follow; the second passage instructs avoidance.
• “Discard one Hadith immediately”: when reconciliation is possible, both are followed.
• “Invent a preferred meaning”: that is not reconciliation; the explanation must fit the wording and reliable scholarly explanation.
The definition requires that reconciliation be possible; it does not authorize independently resolving every apparent difference.