This, then, is a plain instance of ʿĀʾishah (may Allah be pleased with her) acting against her own report.1 If that could occur with her, it is all the more conceivable that she might oppose a hadith transmitted by someone else—one she herself did not narrate. In any case, she will be rewarded. So what will the person in question say about this discrepancy? Will he leave the hadith and the school for the sake of her statement, or will he hold fast to the hadith and set her statement aside, offering whatever acceptable excuse he can for her, as duty requires?

At any rate, it has now become evident to every attentive heart that what was once thought inconceivable—indeed, absolutely impossible—we have proven through rigorously authentic chains of transmission. The necessary conclusion is that a Muslim must not give any weight to a view that conflicts with what is soundly established from the Prophet ﷺ, no matter how virtuous, knowledgeable, or pious its proponent may be, for none after him is infallible. This is among the reasons that spur us to persist in our course: holding firmly to the Book and the Sunnah and disregarding everything else.