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Dialogue and responses · 512Fiqh and daily practice · 469Belief and theology · 461Hadith studies · 343Current events and society · 303History and the Prophet's life · 288Quran and tafsir · 282Psychology, grief and wellbeing · 81Relationships and family · 64Books, poetry and ideas · 63
18 Oct 2025MindTrap with Mufti Abu Layth Opening: music and sharing the link with the guest Music and housekeeping while the host shares the stream link with the guest. Announcement machine1 min 35 s0:00on YouTube
18 Oct 2025MindTrap with Mufti Abu Layth Apology for the delay and how the dialogue was scheduled The host apologises for being late, explains why Friday evenings suit guests in America, and says he postponed another MindTrap to hold this dialogue. AnnouncementBr Muhammad (MFG, MuhammadFromGod channel) machine3 min 17 s1:35on YouTube
18 Oct 2025MindTrap with Mufti Abu Layth LatestHow the dialogue came about: a guest who waited two hours at the last meetup The guest waited two hours at the previous meetup, said his followers wanted a dialogue, and tonight the host wants to hear a Quranist make the case for the Quran-only position. AnnouncementBr Muhammad (MFG, MuhammadFromGod channel)Quranist (Quran-only) machine2 min 40 s4:52on YouTube
18 Oct 2025MindTrap with Mufti Abu Layth LatestWhy does the host see the Quran-only movement as a reaction of anger? The host sees the Quran-only movement as a reaction of anger, sometimes justified, to hadith that are misused, such as the Bukhari report on Aisha's age, the report on killing apostates and reports used to justify abuse; the question is what Quranists actually mean by rejecting hadith. Lessonposition checkedBr Muhammad (MFG, MuhammadFromGod channel)Quranist (Quran-only)AishaSahih al-Bukhari machine3 min 12 s7:32on YouTube
18 Oct 2025MindTrap with Mufti Abu Layth LatestIs there a middle way between rejecting all hadith and accepting every hadith? There is a middle way between rejecting hadith and hadith absolutism: Malik and Abu Hanifa distinguished Sunnah from hadith and accepted reports only if they do not contradict reason, the Quran, the living tradition or a principle of Islam. The host says Quranists should be met with love, not cornered, and recalls his own past anger. Lessonposition checkedBr Muhammad (MFG, MuhammadFromGod channel)Imam MalikAbu HanifaSunnah machine4 min 54 s10:44on YouTube
18 Oct 2025MindTrap with Mufti Abu Layth LatestIs the Quran-only position an argument from epistemology or from principle? The guest says the Quran-only position rests on principle, since God refers earlier communities only to their books, and is confirmed by epistemology, since hadith are contradictory and insulting; Quranists reject the religious authority of hadith, not history or narrations as such. Discussionquoted view, not his positionguest speechBr Muhammad (MFG, MuhammadFromGod channel)Quranist (Quran-only)ahl al-ra'y (people of opinion) machine6 min 51 s18:31on YouTube
18 Oct 2025MindTrap with Mufti Abu Layth Do Quranists accept any Sunnah of the Prophet? Both agree the Quran is central, but the guest says the Quran names only two sunnahs, of earlier peoples and of God, and that the Prophet's own clarifications were not preserved and so cannot have been necessary; the host presents this as the school of Madinah's Quran-centred view with other sources orbiting it. Discussionguest speechBr Muhammad (MFG, MuhammadFromGod channel)Imam MalikAbu HanifaSunnah machine5 min 13 s24:01on YouTube
18 Oct 2025MindTrap with Mufti Abu Layth LatestIs the Prophet Muhammad the most beloved of creation and a mercy to the worlds? The guest holds that God's sending of the messenger, not the Prophet himself, is the mercy, and that calling him the most beloved of creation is unprovable celebrity worship; the host says the Prophet is a mercy for the worlds and that if some are more beloved than others one must be at the top. Discussionguest speechBr Muhammad (MFG, MuhammadFromGod channel)Quran 21:107 (we sent you only as a mercy for the worlds)Ibrahim (Abraham)Musa (Moses) machine5 min27:42on YouTube
18 Oct 2025MindTrap with Mufti Abu Layth LatestDoes 'we sent you only as a mercy' (21:107) describe the Prophet or the act of sending him? The host says the primary Arabic reading of 21:107 is that the Prophet himself was sent as a mercy for the worlds, with the exclusive negation amplifying that, while the guest's reading that the sending is the mercy is a secondary understanding he may hold but not impose. Discussionguest speechBr Muhammad (MFG, MuhammadFromGod channel)Quran 21:107 (we sent you only as a mercy for the worlds)hal (circumstantial state) [?]masdar (verbal noun) machine10 min 54 s32:42on YouTube

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video · 50:15How to Pray Salah According to the Maliki Madhhab- Mufti Abu Layth262,000 views · 13 segments video · 1:49:05BukhariGate Part 1: Sahih Bukhari is NOT so Sahih -Mufti Abu Layth191,000 views · 17 segments video · 45:58Reply to Abu Ibraheem (Salafi)- By Mufti Abu Layth al-Maliki172,000 views · 7 segments video · 9:05They Invaded My Home171,000 views · 2 segments video · 2:09:29Age of Aisha (ra)- Mufti Abu Layth137,000 views · 18 segments video · 32:54Ustadh Nouman Ali Khan & Mufti Abu Layth - A Discussion on Contemporary Issues133,000 views · 7 segments video · 2:34:26PRELUDE: Why There Is NO 2nd Coming Of Jesus (as) In Islam- Mufti Abu Layth128,000 views · 41 segments video · 17:59Old me? Why did I change? | Mufti Abu Layth125,000 views · 1 segments video · 10:30Why Tattoos are NOT Haram by Mufti Abu Layth123,000 views · 1 segments video · 40:52A Reply to False Messiahs: Mirza Ghulam Qadiani! -Mufti Abu Layth99,000 views · 6 segments video · 7:46Why I look & dress the way I do? - Mufti Abu Layth al-Maliki99,000 views · 1 segments video · 46:32Reply to Sunni (Wahhabi) Defence Pt.I -Mufti Abu Layth73,000 views · 11 segments