and others besides them have likewise not differed over the fact that no error may be allowed to remain in what he conveys from Allah. Their only disagreement concerns whether a lapse might occur that he later corrects and clarifies, so that it does not conflict with the purpose of the mission—such as the report that he once recited: "tilka al-gharānīq al-ʿulā, wa anna shafāʿatahā la-turtajā" ("Those are the exalted cranes, and truly their intercession is hoped for"). On this point people hold two views: some of them