How to reconcile the hadith "Flee from the leper" with the hadith "There is no contagion"?

The questioner : In the hadith of the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) this indicates that if you are present, you should not flee. In the hadith, he commands fleeing from it. How do you reconcile the two? Here it says "flee," while this one says...

The Shaykh : The reconciliation between them is that the leper is not the plague. The plague is a general epidemic, while the leper is a specific affliction in a person. So you should not seek to mix with him; stay away from him. Now, this reconciliation we have mentioned is the best that has been said regarding the reconciliation between the hadiths. Some claimed abrogation, and among them, some said: The abrogating is and the abrogated is like , and some reversed it. The correct view is that there is no abrogation, because one of the conditions of abrogation is what? The impossibility of reconciliation. If reconciliation is possible, it is obligatory, because in reconciliation, both pieces of evidence are utilized, whereas in abrogation, one of them is invalidated. Utilizing both is preferable to invalidating one of them, because we considered both and made them a proof.

The questioner : Then, the reality...

The Shaykh : The reality testifies that it is not abrogated.