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Musnad Ahmad

Cited in 23 segments across 19 recordings · 2014 to 2021 · book/book:musnad-ahmad

Citing segments

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29 Jan 2021MindTrap with Mufti Abu Layth Is the Musnad really Imam Ahmad's book, and is it authentic? The guest says the Musnad is Imam Ahmad's draft but cannot be authentic by its own rules, since it reached us by wijada with additions by his son; Mufti Abu Layth holds that it was not Ahmad's book at all. Discussionguest speechShaykh Atabek Shukurov (guest)Musnad AhmadImam Ahmad ibn HanbalAbdullah ibn Ahmad ibn Hanbal machine4 min 09 s55:06on YouTube
26 Jan 2021Monday Nights with Mufti Abu Layth How could Abu Hurayra narrate 5,000 hadith after only two years with the Prophet? Mufti Abu Layth says it is implausible that Abu Hurayra narrated so much after about two years with the Prophet, that Umar restrained him, and that impossible reports such as the Ruqayya comb story should be rejected by Sunnis themselves. Question from live chatposition checkedAbu HurayraUmar ibn al-KhattabUthman ibn AffanAli ibn Abi Talib machine9 min 15 s2:50:05on YouTube
9 Oct 2020video If a reliable narrator reports from someone, does that make the source reliable? Mufti Abu Layth reports from a classical text that a narrator transmitting from someone does not make that person reliable. Lessonquoted view, not his positionAhmad ibn HanbalMusnad Ahmadjarh wa ta'dil (narrator criticism) machine1 min 45 s4:13on YouTube
22 Sep 2020Monday Nights with Mufti Abu Layth Is drawing lots or playing the lottery haram in Islam? Mufti Abu Layth says drawing lots is an established principle of the Shari'ah, and that a small lottery stake is not haram, though he does not encourage it. Lessonposition checkedSunan Abi DawudAli ibn Abi Talibreport: three men claimed one child in yemen and ali cast lots between them and the prophet laughed until his molars showedal-Shafi'i machine15 min 17 s1:42:38on YouTube
24 May 2019Hadith Studies If I drank alcohol, are my prayers and fasts rejected for 40 days? No: the fast and prayer are valid. He calls the forty-days hadith an isolated, weak report that clashes with the Quran and reason, though alcohol stays haram. Question source not recordedposition checkedreport: man shariba al-khamr lam tuqbal lahu salat arbain sabahanalcohol (khamr)khabar al-ahad (isolated reports)Sunan Ibn Majah machine10 min 57 s0:38on YouTube
4 May 2019On Current Events Is the hadith about women praying in the darkest part of the house authentic? No: the chains run through unknown, abandoned or weak narrators, so the reports are fabricated or very weak and clash with the sahih hadith. Lessonposition checkedreport: i know that you love to pray with me but your prayer in your room is better for you than your prayer in my mosque (Umm Humayd)report: the best prayer of a woman is in the darkest part of her house (Abu Hurayra, Ibn Khuzayma)Musnad AhmadAbu Dawud machine8 min 22 s23:22on YouTube
20 Sep 2018Clarifying False Hadith Which Insult Islam What is the war-wager hadith paradox? Mufti Abu Layth presents the report that the Prophet was commanded to fight people until they believe, which hadith dogmatists call mutawatir, and notes that the same scholars agree no one may be fought merely for disbelief or compelled into Islam. Lessonposition checkedreport: i have been commanded to fight the people until they testify that there is no god but allah (unresolved; Abu Hurayra, wording of Sahih Muslim, number not stated)Sahih MuslimSahih al-BukhariSunan Abi Dawud machine7 min 54 s0:00on YouTube
17 Sep 2018On the Prophet Muhammad ﷺ Was the Prophet Muhammad poisoned, and did he die from it? No: Mufti Abu Layth says the Prophet did not die of poisoning. The report in Bukhari that he felt the poison cutting his aorta in his final illness is, in his view, a fabricated story that contradicts itself and fails on its chain. Question source not recordedposition checkedSahih al-Bukhari 4428 (I still feel the pain of the food I ate; the poison cutting my aorta)Sahih al-BukhariSahih MuslimSunan Abi Dawud machine3 min 25 s0:01on YouTube
17 Sep 2018On the Prophet Muhammad ﷺ Is the chain of the hadith that the Prophet died of poison reliable? Mufti Abu Layth finds the chains unacceptable: the Bukhari version runs through Yunus, whom early critics faulted for his memory, and through al-Zuhri, who does not state that he heard it, while the Abu Dawud version has a narrator criticised for mistakes. Lessonposition checkedSahih al-Bukhari 4428 (I still feel the pain of the food I ate; the poison cutting my aorta)Yunus ibn Yazid al-Ayli [?]Ibn Shihab al-ZuhriAbu Zur'a machine3 min 23 s3:26on YouTube
8 Jul 2018Responding to Refutations Do the angels curse a wife who refuses her husband in bed? No: Mufti Abu Layth holds the hadith is weak, resting on narrators who practised tadlis, and clashes with the Quran's command to treat wives with kindness. Lessonposition checkedreport: if a woman refuses her husband's bed the angels curse herSahih al-BukhariSahih MuslimMusnad Ahmad machine3 min 48 s3:12on YouTube
8 Jul 2018Responding to Refutations Was al-A'mash a reliable hadith narrator? Mufti Abu Layth cites classical critics who say al-A'mash committed tadlis, sometimes hiding weak narrators, and made many mistakes. This does not mean every narration of his in Bukhari and Muslim is weak. Discussional-A'mashAbu HurayraAbu Salih [?]Sahih Muslim machine9 min 28 s4:25on YouTube
10 May 2018Ponderings on the Holy Quran What is the context of the hadith 'whoever changes his religion, kill him'? The report 'whoever changes his religion, kill him' clashes with the Quran, and in full it is Ikrima's account of Ali burning people alive and Ibn Abbas objecting that he should have executed them instead. Lessonposition checkedreport: whoever changes his religion kill him (man baddala dinahu faqtuluhu; unresolved, Sahih al-Bukhari and others, number not stated)Sahih al-BukhariSunan al-Nasa'iSunan Ibn Majah machine2 min 36 s26:06on YouTube
10 May 2018Ponderings on the Holy Quran Is Ikrima, the narrator of the apostasy hadith, reliable? The main chains of 'whoever changes his religion, kill him' run through Ikrima, whom he describes as a Khariji, and whom Imam Malik and many early authorities rejected or called a liar. LessonIkrimareport: whoever changes his religion kill him (man baddala dinahu faqtuluhu; unresolved, Sahih al-Bukhari and others, number not stated)KhawarijISIS machine6 min 34 s28:42on YouTube
10 May 2018Ponderings on the Holy Quran Are the Abu Hurayra and Hamza al-Aslami narrations on apostasy authentic? The other narrations used for killing apostates, from Abu Hurayra and Hamza al-Aslami, also have problems in their chains: rejected or unknown narrators and a known mudallis. LessonAbu Hurayrareport: abu hurayra narration on killing the apostate (unresolved; content not quoted)Hamza al-Aslami [?]report: hamza al-aslami narration on killing the apostate (unresolved; content not quoted) machine3 min 57 s39:14on YouTube
4 May 2018Clarifying False Hadith Which Insult Islam Is there a hadith that says a woman who wears perfume outside is a zaniya? The report, transmitted only from Abu Musa al-Ash'ari and found in al-Nasa'i, Abu Dawud, Ahmad and al-Tirmidhi, says a woman who passes people while wearing perfume is a fornicator. Lessonquoted view, not his positionreport: ayyuma imraatin istatarat fa marrat ala qawmin li yajidu rihaha fa hiya zaniya (with the variant every eye is a fornicator)Abu Musa al-Ash'ariZaynab al-ThaqafiyyaIbn Mas'ud machine2 min 39 s0:00on YouTube
4 May 2018Clarifying False Hadith Which Insult Islam Is a woman's prayer rejected if she wears perfume to the mosque? No: Mufti Abu Layth says the report is a statement attributed to Abu Hurayra through unknown and weak narrators, not a hadith of the Prophet, and no one holds that such a prayer is invalid. Lessonposition checkedreport: la tuqbalu salatu imraatin tatayyabat lil-masjid hatta taghtasila ghuslaha min al-janaba (Abu Hurayra; Abu Dawud and Ahmad, number not stated)Abu HurayraUbayd, client of Abu Ruhm [?]Asim ibn Ubaydullah machine2 min 35 s23:40on YouTube
22 Apr 2018Clarifying False Hadith Which Insult Islam Can a woman travel without a mahram? Yes: Mufti Abu Layth says a woman can travel without a mahram, since the ruling was about safety. The reports behind it disagree on how long a journey they mean. Question source not recordedposition checkedmahramrada' (breastfeeding)report: a woman may not travel except with a mahram (Ibn Umar, Abu Hurayra, Abu Sa'id al-Khudri, Ibn Abbas; numbers not stated)Ibn Umar machine9 min 31 s1:12on YouTube
9 Apr 2018The Voice of Reason in Islam Does Ali's saying about wiping the socks prove that religion is not based on reason? No: Mufti Abu Layth says the 'if the deen were by opinion' wording has a weak chain and is absent from several versions, that Malik's Muwatta records wiping both sides of the khuff, and that rituals are practices rather than claims against reason. Lessonposition checkedreport: if the deen were by opinion the bottom of the khuff would deserve wiping more than the topAli ibn Abi Talibal-A'mashAbu Ishaq al-Sabi'i machine3 min 56 s1:01:20on YouTube
1 Apr 2018Islamic Eschatology Why do almost all the hadith about Jesus returning come through Abu Hurayra? Mufti Abu Layth does not believe the Prophet said the second-coming hadith: about eighty percent come through Abu Hurayra alone, who learned from the converts Ka'b al-Ahbar and Abdullah ibn Salam, and some of his reports appear elsewhere as Ka'b's words from the Torah. No such hadith comes from Abu Bakr, Umar, Ali or Uthman. Lessonposition checkedShaykh Hassan AliIsa (Jesus)Abu HurayraIbn Shihab al-Zuhri [?] machine7 min 51 s10:26on YouTube
2 Jan 2018Responding to Refutations Anal intercourse: the difference of opinion and the chains of the critic's hadith On anal intercourse Mufti Abu Layth says only that there is a difference of opinion: the majority held it haram, many Malikis did not and disliked it for hygiene. He argues that every hadith the critic quoted against it has a weak or disconnected chain. Lessonquoted view, not his positionAbu Ibraheem HusnaynSufyan al-ThawriQadi IyadAbu Muhammad al-Asili [?] machine11 min 53 s24:50on YouTube
6 Sep 2017From the Mind of a Mufti Is it wrong to choose the easier opinion in Islam? Mufti Abu Layth says choosing what is easier is the nature of Islam, citing hadith that the Prophet always chose the easier of two options. Islam came to connect people with God, not to make secondary details the main issue. Discussionguest speechShaykh Akram Nadwi (guest)Ibn al-QayyimI'lam al-Muwaqqi'inMusnad Ahmad machine2 min 40 s5:27on YouTube
12 Apr 2014video What do the sound hadith about the beard actually say? Only three hadith on the beard have undisputed chains, and each pairs trimming the moustache with the beard and gives the reason of differing from the Jews and Christians, the Majus or the mushrikin. Many read this as an obligatory command, but Mufti Abu Layth says other hadith show otherwise. Lessonposition checkedSahih MuslimMusnad AhmadAbu Hurayra [?]report: be different to the mushrikin trim the moustaches and let the beards grow machine4 min 02 s9:16on YouTube
12 Apr 2014video Is it haram to trim my beard shorter than a fist's length? Trimming the beard below a fist is not haram according to many great scholars, a well-founded view in the tradition, though others may follow stricter opinions. Lessonposition checkedlihyah (beard)report: be different to the mushrikin trim the moustaches and let the beards growreport: be different to the jews and the christians and dye your hairreport: be different to the jews and the christians and pray in your shoes machine12 min 48 s0:04on YouTube