How do we understand some of the texts in which there is disagreement, such as: (faith is seventy and some parts), or (sixty and some parts), (twenty-five degrees)

The questioner: Regarding ... .

The Shaykh: First: Before I answer your question, I want to correct something in your wording, for you say, as others do, "I, as a Muslim," do not say "I, as a Muslim"; because if you say so-and-so is like a lion, it does not mean that he is a lion, so if you say "I, as a Muslim," it means that I am not a Muslim as a Muslim, say: "in my capacity as a Muslim."
As for the answer to the question, here one should ... two sciences, the science of hadith and the science of the principles of jurisprudence, and the first is the one with which one begins, then the second is followed, if the two wordings are as you exemplified with twenty-five degrees and twenty-seven degrees, they were two wordings established from the perspective =
-- Give us a paper, Dr. Yahya, what do you call it? We call it a clinic ... I don't know what you call it. May Allah reward you with good --
= So the first thing is that it is obligatory for us to study the two wordings from the hadith perspective, and if they are established, and it is not necessary that their establishment be equal in validity, but rather as Ibn Hajar says in "Sharh al-Nukhba" that each of them be from the category of the acceptable, and the lowest of the acceptable is the hasan li ghayrihi hadith, at that time we apply the second science, which is the science of the principles of jurisprudence, for example, in what concerns the two conflicting texts that conflict in a way that reconciliation between them is not possible, the abrogating is sought from the abrogated between them, if knowing that is possible, then good, otherwise it is resorted to preferring the stronger; that is: if one of them is hasan and the other is sahih, the hasan is left and the sahih is taken, but in our issue, the rule "the addition of the trustworthy is accepted" is applied, so the hadith of seventy is acted upon; because the hadith of twenty-five falls under it, likewise it is said in the hadith of faith, the greater is taken over the greater, but the previous condition is that each of the numbers be established, in the first example, the issue of congregational prayer, both are sahih, so the reconciliation is taking the added over the added, but in the other example: there are two narrations, now I feel that I am unable to remember the preferred narration from the weaker one, but it remains in my mind that the narration of Muslim is the preferred one, unlike the narration of al-Bukhari, and the rule is the opposite, but here it is the opposite; the opposite of the opposite, the narration of Muslim is the preferred one, but if you asked me what is the wording of this and what is the wording of that? I say: now I do not recall, but I refer to "My Summary of Sahih al-Bukhari," for I addressed this issue, and mentioned the preferred narration of Muslim, and clarified that the narration of al-Bukhari is the weaker one.