A Third Principle in Reconciling Contradictory Texts: "The Narrator's Opinion Regarding the Interpretation of His Hadith Takes Precedence Over the Opinion of Those Who Come After Him."

The Shaykh : A third principle comes: and that is "The Narrator's Opinion Regarding the Interpretation of His Hadith Takes Precedence Over the Opinion of Those Who Come After Him". This is because the witness sees what the absent person does not see. The one who hears the hadith of the Messenger (peace and blessings be upon him) as it is, as is always the case with people, the witness sees what the absent person does not see. So when Abu Ayyub heard the hadith from the Messenger (peace and blessings be upon him), he understood from it the generality. Therefore, when they found the latrines in the land of Sham facing the qiblah, he sought forgiveness from Allah because he could not turn away from it. The opinion of this narrator, who heard from the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him), is more deserving of being adopted than the opinion of one who comes later and wants to interpret his hadith with an interpretation other than the narrator's interpretation of it. So the narrator's opinion regarding his hadith takes precedence over the opinion of others. Here we found this phrase from the narrator of the hadith, which makes us feel that he understood that the hadith does not distinguish between the desert and the buildings. This is one thing, and a second thing we take from a hadith, and a third we take from sound reasoning.