If it is objected:

What you have said might suggest that no one may challenge a hadith or find its meaning problematic. Yet the Companions used to do so. Indeed, it is reliably recorded in the authentic collection that when the Prophet, peace and blessings be upon him, said:

“Whoever is subjected to a detailed reckoning will be punished,”

‘Ā’ishah said, “O Messenger of Allah, does Allah not say, ‘As for the one who is given his record in his right hand, he will receive an easy reckoning’ [al-Inshiqāq: 7, 8]?”

He replied, “That refers to the presentation of deeds. Whoever is subjected to a detailed reckoning will be punished.”

And when he said:

“No one who pledged allegiance beneath the tree will enter the Fire,”

Hafsah said to him, “Does Allah not say, ‘There is none of you who will not come to it’ [Maryam: 71]?”

He replied, “Have you not heard His words, ‘Then We will save those who feared Allah and leave the wrongdoers within it on their knees’ [Maryam: 72]?”

‘Umar also said to him in the year of al-Hudaybiyyah, “Did you not tell us that we would come to the House and circumambulate