How to reconcile evidence when it appears to conflict.

The Shaykh : In such a case, one must reconcile the texts, as is known from the rules of the principles of jurisprudence and the principles of hadith. Al-Hafiz al-Iraqi (may Allah have mercy on him) mentioned in his commentary on *Mukhtasar Ibn al-Salah*, in the section on conflicting hadiths, that if two hadiths appear to contradict each other, it is obligatory to reconcile them by one of the many methods of reconciliation, which number more than a hundred. This is a very important matter; otherwise, the student of knowledge will be left in confusion.
For example, we read the saying of Allah the Exalted: If we stop at this verse and do not take into account what the hadiths brought regarding the permissibility of eating sea carrion and locusts, we would forbid eating them, because the Qur'anic text includes them: