It is obvious that Rivash, on the other hand, does understand Rambam to be espousing the nontraditional view that the child did not actually die. Indeed, Abarbanel begins his lengthy discussion of this brief Maimonidean passage with the assertions that:
[A]ll the commentators have stumbled and there is no help, and they have all agreed that the opinion of the Master [Rambam] was that the son of the woman of Shunem did not die… and they have also said that his opinion was that the son of the woman of Sarepta also did not die …