Differences among early exegetes are not always real contradictions. They may provide different examples of one general meaning, choose near synonyms, state an implication, or use broad terminology for occasions of revelation or abrogation.
Difference of diversity: two explanations disclose compatible instances or dimensions of a broader sense.
Difference of contradiction: two claims about the same matter cannot both be true in the relevant respect.
When different reports apply a verse to different moral acts, first ask whether the verse’s general wording includes both. Automatically rejecting one explanation misses legitimate diversity; forcing together genuinely incompatible accounts is equally mistaken.