At this point—and this brief note cannot accommodate a multitude of illustrations—let us be content with two examples:

1. ʿĀʾishah held that the aqrāʾ are the intervals of purity. Aḥmad records this in al-Masāʾil, 185, and Mālik relates it in the Muwaṭṭaʾ 2/96 with an exceptionally sound chain, wherein she said:
   “Do you know what the aqrāʾ are? They are the intervals of purity.”
   A similar wording appears in the Masāʾil of Imām Aḥmad transmitted by his son ʿAbd Allāh, p. 231.

   I say: It is firmly established in the Sunnah that the qurʾ denotes menstruation, and that is the position of the Ḥanafī school—of which the gentleman himself is a member. Will he now abandon his own madhhab—even though it accords with the Sunnah—solely on account of this statement of ʿĀʾishah? Or will he treat her opinion as evidence of abrogation, just as he did in our present discussion?!

2. ʿĀʾishah—may Allah be pleased with her—said: “The Messenger of Allah ﷺ entered and saw on my hand several silver rings. He asked, ‘What is this, ʿĀʾishah?’ I replied, ‘I had them made so I could adorn myself for you, O Messenger of Allah!’ He said, ‘Do you pay their zakāt?’ I said, ‘No,’ or, ‘Whatever Allah wills.’ He said, ‘It is…’”