Abu Hurayrah (may Allah be pleased with him), Shah Wali Allah al-Dihlawi, and others already named. And there must have been still more people who practiced these hadiths whose identities are unknown to us, for Allah never guaranteed to preserve the names of everyone who acted upon a specific verse or report; He pledged only to preserve the Quran and Sunnah themselves, as He said: “Indeed, it is We who have sent down the Reminder, and indeed We will guard it” [15:9]. Hence we are obliged to follow any explicit text, whether or not we know who upheld it, so long as its abrogation has not been established—exactly the situation in the issue before us.

I will end this discussion with a fine remark from the meticulous scholar Ibn al-Qayyim, may Allah have mercy on him, which is highly pertinent here. He wrote in Iʿlām al-Muwaqqiʿīn, 3/464–465:

“The righteous predecessors were vehement in their denunciation and anger toward anyone who opposed a hadith of the Messenger of Allah ﷺ with opinion, analogy, personal preference, or the saying of any individual, whoever he might be. They would boycott such a person and censure those who contrived excuses for him. They allowed nothing but complete submission to the Prophet ﷺ, yielding to him and receiving his teachings with hearing and obedience. It never crossed their minds to withhold acceptance until practice, analogy, or the concurrence of so-and-so bore witness to it.”