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al-Mudawwana

Cited in 16 segments across 15 recordings · 2014 to 2025 · book/book:al-mudawwana

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18 Oct 2025MindTrap with Mufti Abu Layth LatestDoes the Muwatta show that the Companions' practice had already changed by Malik's time? The guest cites a Muwatta report that a Companion's contemporary recognised nothing of the Companions' practice except the call to prayer, as proof the religion had changed; Mufti Abu Layth says the report refers to those in governance and that Malik throughout his works transmits the living practice of Madinah. Discussionguest speechBr Muhammad (MFG, MuhammadFromGod channel)al-Muwattaal-MudawwanaImam Malik machine5 min 05 s2:42:52on YouTube
13 Feb 2023video Apophatic definition: the early main body defined by what it was not Early Muslims had no creed checklist: you belonged to the main body as long as you did not hold the positions of the known sects. Lessonposition checkedImam Malikal-MudawwanaShiaMu'tazila machine5 min 03 s5:46on YouTube
6 Apr 2021Monday Nights with Mufti Abu Layth Did Mufti Abu Layth say incest is natural, and is homosexuality unnatural? Mufti Abu Layth never said incest is natural. He says that calling homosexuality unnatural is not scientific because it occurs in most species, though one may still hold it haram, and that he cited Imam Malik only for not interfering in other people's way of life. Lessonposition checkedImam Malikal-MudawwanaThe Third Chimpanzeeharam machine9 min 32 s56:10on YouTube
6 Apr 2021Monday Nights with Mufti Abu Layth Did Imam Malik believe Jesus will return? There is a statement from Imam Malik that Jesus died, and Malik never taught the second coming in his fatwas or the Muwatta, so it is no huge claim that he did not hold it. Transmitting a report is not endorsing it. Lessonposition checkedImam MalikIsa (Jesus)Yasir Qadhial-Mudawwana machine7 min 42 s2:17:23on YouTube
26 Jan 2021Monday Nights with Mufti Abu Layth If a hadith is also in other books besides Bukhari, does that confirm it? Not necessarily: he says transmitters and editors, often with good intentions, aligned names and texts with versions they knew, as Ahmad Shakir did in al-Muhalla, so parallel versions may not be independent. Lessonposition checkedImam al-BukhariAhmad ShakirIbn Hazmal-Muhalla (Ibn Hazm) machine7 min 51 s1:56:22on YouTube
5 Jan 2021Monday Nights with Mufti Abu Layth LatestDo I lose good deeds if I keep a dog as a pet? No, owning a dog does not cost you reward; he reads the dog hadith as hygiene measures against diseases like rabies, citing Ibn Rushd al-Jadd. Question from live chatposition checkedIbn Rushd al-Jaddal-Muqaddimat al-Mumahhidat (Ibn Rushd al-Jadd)al-Mudawwanaal-Mazari machine8 min 27 s40:54on YouTube
4 Aug 2019From the Mind of a Mufti Mohammed Hijab's liberalism lecture argues like a sectarian polemic Mufti Abu Layth turns to a university lecture by Mohammed Hijab on liberalism, which people had sent him and which claimed liberalism is baseless. He says the lecture seemed aimed at a Muslim audience and that, since Mohammed Hijab is intelligent, he is unsure whether he has not grasped the concept or is deliberately arguing to win points, but calls it a very poor job. He explains that the lecture argues against liberalism the way Muslims conduct sectarian debates: finding a figure the opponent supposedly reveres, such as Abu Hanifa, Ibn Taymiyya, Imam Malik or a Shia ayatollah, and quoting him to corner the opponent through compelling authority. He says this tactic makes no sense outside religion, where people do not feel bound by allegiance to such figures. DiscussionMohammed HijabShiaSufiHanafi school machine6 min 24 s0:00on YouTube
24 Jul 2019Quick Fiqh! Did Imam Malik wear an earring? Yes: his teacher's biography of Imam Malik records that Malik, while still a youth studying with Rabi'a, had an earring in his ear, and another Maliki work on the hadith of the Mudawwana says the same. Lessonposition checkedImam MalikShaykh Abd al-Ghani al-Daqr [?]Rabi'a al-Ra'yreport: malik studied with rabia while still bursting with youth and he had an earring in his ear machine2 min 39 s19:33on YouTube
10 May 2019video As a convert, should I try to convert my spouse or family? No need: Imam Malik said Islam should not be pressed on a convert's husband, since he knows what Islam is. Speaking about Islam is fine, but obsessing over converting people is not. Lessonposition checkedImam Malikal-Mudawwana [?]Ibn al-Qasim [?] machine3 min 49 s36:59on YouTube
20 Dec 2018From the Mind of a Mufti Is homosexuality haram in Islam, and why were the people of Lut destroyed? Mufti Abu Layth accepts the majority view that homosexual acts are haram, but says the punishments scholars assigned were variable public-order measures that changed over time, that the people of Lut were destroyed primarily for rejecting their prophet, and that the ruling does not require hatred of homosexual people. Lessonposition checkedIbn HazmTawq al-HamamaImam Malikal-Mudawwana machine4 min 50 s18:27on YouTube
4 May 2018Clarifying False Hadith Which Insult Islam Would the Prophet really call a woman wearing perfume a fornicator? No: Mufti Abu Layth says calling a woman a fornicator is the crime of qadhf under Quran 24:4, punished by the Malikis whatever the intention, and the Prophet was never obscene, so the report insults him. Lessonposition checkedQuran 24:4 (those who accuse chaste women without four witnesses)Quran 68:4 (you are of a great character) [?]report: ayyuma imraatin istatarat fa marrat ala qawmin li yajidu rihaha fa hiya zaniyareport: lam yakun al-nabi fahishan wa la sabbaban wa la laanan (Anas, in al-Bukhari, number not stated) machine9 min 15 s10:32on YouTube
15 Apr 2018Debunking Myths On: Jinns, Magic, the Evil Eye, and Superstitions Why great scholars accepted it: sectarian turf war with the Mu'tazila Mufti Abu Layth argues that belief in magic, even on the Prophet, hardened as a sectarian reaction against the Mu'tazila, just as other issues hardened against Salafis or Shia. Lessonposition checkedImam Malikal-MudawwanaAbu Hanifaal-Fiqh al-Akbar [?] machine10 min 12 s30:12on YouTube
28 Feb 2018Responding to Refutations What do the classical Maliki books say about witnesses in a marriage? The Maliki authorities he reads hold that a marriage without witnesses is valid unless it is meant to be secret; witnesses or an announcement are required before consummation. Lessonposition checkedal-Kafi fi Fiqh Ahl al-MadinaIbn Abd al-Barral-Jami of Ibn Yunus [?]Abu Bakr ibn Yunus al-Siqilli machine9 min 11 s9:00on YouTube
2 Apr 2017video Demonstration of sujud al-sahw before and after the salam, and cancellation A missed major sunnah is repaired by two prostrations before the salam, an addition or doubt by two prostrations after it, and a forgotten obligation by cancelling the defective rak'ah and continuing. Behind an imam, follow the imam. Lessonsujud al-sahw (prostration of forgetfulness)cancellation (ilgha') of a defective rak'ah [?]build on certainty when in doubtImam Malik machine11 min 46 s22:48on YouTube
3 Mar 2015video What did Imam Malik say about bid'ah? Imam Malik rejected any 'good' bid'ah and called innovations misguidance, yet he often ruled a given innovation only discouraged (makruh), not haram. Lessonposition checkedImam MalikImam Ahmad ibn HanbalAbu Hanifaal-Shafi'i machine4 min 28 s1:58on YouTube
9 May 2014video Is Imam Malik's own fatwa the Maliki madhhab? The speakers disagree on whether Imam Malik's own words or the later transmitted madhhab decide a ruling; one says Malik's hijab fatwas were relaxed and left the face uncovered. Discussionquoted view, not his positionguest speechUstadh Abdus Shakur Brooks (guest)Imam Malikal-Mudawwana [?] machine2 min 36 s19:50on YouTube