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.”

Four [affairs] of Jāhiliyyah that the people will not leave: Wailing over the dead; reviling ancestors; tying rain to the rising or setting of stars, and contagion.