''The Interpretation of Conflicting Narrations'' or ''Treatise on Hadith Differences'' ( ar, Ta’wīl Mukhtalif al-Hadīth, script=Latn, italic=yes) is a book written by Ibn Qutaybah (828 – 885 CE / 213 – 276 AH), a renowned Islamic scholar of the

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, in which he defends and reconciles hadiths that Mu'tazilites and

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had dismissed as contradictory or irrational. ''The Interpretation'' was cited by the Christian author

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in his ''

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'' around 1010 to highlight the contradictions of the hadiths. It was translated and edited by Gerard Lecomte as ''Le traité des divergences du hadit d'Ibn Qutayba'' (Damascus: Institut Français du Damas, 1962, xlviii, 460 p. 25 cm.).

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