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the battle of Badr

Cited in 8 segments across 6 recordings · 2017 to 2021 · event/event:battle-of-badr

Citing segments

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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
11 Dec 2020MindTrap with Mufti Abu Layth Did angels really fight at the battle of Badr? The guest says the angels at Badr are a literary description of God strengthening the believers' hearts, since the named Muslims who killed the enemy chiefs are known, and that the same reading applies to earlier prophets' stories. Discussionquoted view, not his positionguest speechDr Javad T. Hashmi (guest)the battle of BadrMuhammad Ahmad KhalafallahJibril machine4 min 06 s1:34:56on YouTube
11 Dec 2020MindTrap with Mufti Abu Layth Who were the riders seen at Badr? Mufti Abu Layth takes the Badr angels as strength and vigour rather than a physical event and floats a theory that the riders seen were Persian knights of the House of Karen; the guest prefers a purely literary reading. Discussionguest speechDr Javad T. Hashmi (guest)the battle of BadrSalman al-Farisithe House of Karen machine3 min 23 s1:39:02on YouTube
10 Dec 2020video Was the Quran always fixed word for word, or was it flexible at first? Mufti Abu Layth holds the Quran was dynamic in the Prophet's time, with companions allowed to substitute synonyms, and that a fixed vowel-for-vowel text is a modern idea. Writing it down in a worldly script brought its own constraints. Lessonposition checkedAsh'arikalam Allah (eternal speech, al-kalam al-azali)al-Baqillani [?] (name garbled in the transcript)al-Bajuri machine8 min 51 s19:43on YouTube
31 Dec 2019On the Prophet Muhammad ﷺ Did angels really fight at the Battle of Badr? Mufti Abu Layth says many take the angelic help at Badr as symbolic language for strengthened resolve, and the companions' later descriptions as storytelling or what they felt they saw. Question from live chatposition checkedthe battle of BadrQurayshreport: o allah if this band perishes you will not be worshipped on earthQuran 48:10 (the hand of Allah is over their hands) machine7 min 42 s0:00on YouTube
31 Dec 2019On the Prophet Muhammad ﷺ Were the angels at Badr actually Persian knights? Mufti Abu Layth finds the theory that Persian knights summoned by Salman al-Farisi were taken for angels at Badr interesting but most likely untrue, and harmless even if true. Lessonposition checkedSalman al-Farisithe House of Karenthe Sasaniansthe Byzantine Empire machine7 min 24 s7:42on YouTube
30 Nov 2018Mothers of the Believers: The Wives of the Blessed Prophet ﷺ What evidence suggests Aisha was older than nine when she married? Mufti Abu Layth argues that a six-year-old could not have been the help the Prophet needed, and that the battle reports, her earlier engagement, her age at death and her memory of a Makkan verse point to her being at least seventeen. Lessonposition checkedAishaSahih al-Bukharithe battle of Badrthe battle of Uhud machine5 min 16 s10:27on YouTube
11 Jan 2017Mothers of the Believers: The Wives of the Blessed Prophet ﷺ The reports: Bukhari's six and nine against three other Bukhari reports The six-and-nine report conflicts with three other Bukhari reports: Aisha as a jariyah at an early revelation, her memory of her parents' Islam and Abu Bakr's migration, and her presence at Uhud when a fourteen-year-old boy was refused. Lessonposition checkedSahih al-BukhariSahih MuslimHisham ibn Urwajariyah (girl approaching adolescence) machine10 min 31 s47:06on YouTube