Now apply the same distinction in the other direction:
• A ruling may remain operative even when no wording about it is present in the Mushaf as a Quranic verse.
• The author illustrates this with the operative legal punishment for zina by a married person, while stating that wording about it is not transmitted in the Mushaf as a Quranic verse.
• The lesson's limited conclusion is: an operative ruling does not by itself make reported wording Quranic. Its proof may belong to another source.
This is a source-classification example only. This level does not study the offence, evidence, conditions or punishment.