she recited His words, exalted be He: “Indeed, you cannot make the dead hear” [al-Rūm 52]. When she denied that he had seen his Lord, exalted be He, she recited His words: “Vision cannot encompass Him” [al-An‘ām 103], and His words: “It is not for any human being that Allah should speak to him except by revelation or from behind a veil” [al-Shūrā 51].

Because she thought that the Quran contradicted that report, she attributed an error to its narrator, although the leading Companions and the majority of Muslim scholars affirmed the hadith and held that there was no incompatibility between it and the Quran.

The point is that none of the Companions said that the Quran or a transmitted report contradicts reason and rational proofs, and that one must therefore accept what reason and rational proofs dictate, while the Quran must either be disregarded and thus abandoned, or have interpretations devised for it that entail distorting words from their proper places. On the contrary, they all agreed on reverence for the Quran and that it was never interpreted