Mention of a report in whose meaning some scholars have erred in and affirmed the contagion which the Prophet [sas] negated.

Imām al-Ṭahāwī [rh] addressed the issue of the apparent conflict between the various ḥadīths that have been connected to contagion.

That which is correct in our view is what is authentically reported from him [sas] that he said: “There is no contagion” and that nothing will afflict a soul except what has been written for it.

This is because [this reconciliation between the ḥadīths] negates contagion in principle, completely, as is stated explicitly in the authentic reports.

Imām Aḥmad (along with Imām Mālik) was upon the view of negating contagion [as a matter of superstition] and eating with the sick (leper) with trust upon Allāh.

Some people have carried [the ḥadīth] to mean that [the prohibition] is due to fear for the healthy on account of the one with the disease...

The twins differing health patterns present a mystery. Why did one become ill with a childhood disease, like measles for example, while the other did not?

The Qurʾān, Sunnah and consensus establish that the sun is in motion over the earth and through its motion, the phenomena of the night and day arise.

In these reports is the prohibition of leaving the land of the plague [intending to] flee from it.

As for his saying: “There is no contagion”, then it is a prohibition from that anyone should say: “A thing passes [what it has] to another thing.”