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Jibril

Cited in 16 segments across 10 recordings · 2018 to 2021 · person/person:jibril

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16 Feb 2021Monday Nights with Mufti Abu Layth Did the companions actually see the angel Jibril? Mufti Abu Layth says the report that it was Jibril may be the companion's interpretation, not the Prophet's words; repeated 'he said' in Arabic narration makes the speaker unclear. Question from live chatposition checkedJibrilreport: jibril asks the prophet about iman and the signs of the hour [?] machine2 min 26 s40:34on YouTube
16 Feb 2021Monday Nights with Mufti Abu Layth Is Sidrat al-Muntaha a real tree? Mufti Abu Layth says the lote tree, Sidrat al-Muntaha, is symbolic language and there is no literal tree. Question from live chatposition checkedSidrat al-Muntaha (the lote tree)JibrilMohammed Hijab machine1 min 17 s1:48:43on YouTube
9 Feb 2021Monday Nights with Mufti Abu Layth Did the companions really see the angel Jibril as a man? Mufti Abu Layth says only the Prophet saw Jibril, in a trance-like vision; companions who thought a stranger was Jibril were assuming. Question from live chatposition checkedJibril machine2 min 29 s1:10:12on YouTube
12 Jan 2021Monday Nights with Mufti Abu Layth Does Sahih al-Bukhari really say God dangled in front of the Prophet? Mufti Abu Layth says the Bukhari report of God 'dangling' before the Prophet is unacceptable, and any hadith that clashes with reason or the Quran must be rejected. Lessonposition checkedSahih al-Bukhari 7517 (the night journey; al-Jabbar drew near and came down)the Isra and Mi'rajal-KhattabiAbd al-Haqq al-Ishbili [?] machine12 min 35 s1:58:33on YouTube
11 Dec 2020MindTrap with Mufti Abu Layth Did the Prophet Muhammad perform miracles? The guest argues that the Quran implies the Prophet performed no miracles and ties signs to compulsion, so traditionalists read miracles in from hadith; both speakers appear to reject the view that every prophet needs a miracle. Discussionquoted view, not his positionguest speechDr Javad T. Hashmi (guest)mu'jizah (miracle)the splitting of the moonreport: the prophet had no shadow (unresolved; cited as an example of miracle reports) machine4 min 27 s1:30:29on 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
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
13 Oct 2020video Was Iblis condemned for using his reason? No: Iblis was condemned for arrogance and stubbornness, not reason, and much of what people picture about angels is imagination filling in the Quran's outline. Discussionposition checkedIblis (Shaytan)AdamJibrilmala'ika (angels) machine3 min 12 s4:34on YouTube
3 Jul 2020MindTrap with Mufti Abu Layth Do Ash'aris and Maturidis believe the Arabic Quran is God's eternal speech? In Ash'ari and Maturidi theology God's eternal speech is not Arabic sounds and letters; the Arabic Quran expresses it and is created. Discussionquoted view, not his positionguest speechDr Khalil Andani (guest)al-BaqillaniKalam Allahkalam nafsi machine5 min 51 s34:47on YouTube
3 Jul 2020MindTrap with Mufti Abu Layth Is Arabic an eternal, divine language? Mufti Abu Layth rejects grammarians' claim that Arabic is eternal; both describe the Ash'ari view that revelation takes the language of its audience. Discussionmay contain a quoted viewguest speechDr Khalil Andani (guest)Abu Ali al-FarisiIbn Abbasreport: jibril was given the message of every prophet in arabic and translated it (unresolved; attributed to Ibn Abbas) machine2 min 02 s50:31on YouTube
3 Jul 2020MindTrap with Mufti Abu Layth Was revelation words dictated by Gabriel, or inspiration the Prophet put into words? The guest argues that Quranic wahy is non-verbal inspiration through the ruh which the Prophet put into Arabic; Mufti Abu Layth says he finds himself with those who hold revelation was expressed within the Prophet. Discussionguest speechDr Khalil Andani (guest)wahyruhal-Ruh al-Amin machine4 min 57 s53:07on YouTube
19 Jun 2020MindTrap with Mufti Abu Layth Did the Prophet leave a written Quran, and what did the caliphs really do? At the Prophet's death the Quran lived in the community's recitation, teaching and notes; he deliberately left no official codex. The caliphs merely spread copies, and the guest says the Bukhari narratives about their compilation are weak in chain and content. Discussionquoted view, not his positionguest speechDr Shehzad Saleem (guest)The deen reaches us through continuous living practiceJibril (Gabriel)Abu Bakr machine3 min 57 s21:00on YouTube
19 Jun 2020MindTrap with Mufti Abu Layth Where do the variant readings of the Quran come from? The guest says the Quran was revealed chronologically and then recompiled in a new divine order, as 75:16-19 describes; remnants of the earlier recitation kept by the companions are the biggest source of the qira'at. The final order was fixed when the Prophet revised the Quran twice with Jibril in his last Ramadan. Discussionquoted view, not his positionguest speechDr Shehzad Saleem (guest)Quran 75:16-19 (upon Us is its collection and its recitation)Hamiduddin Farahiqira'at (the variant readings) machine3 min 57 s24:57on YouTube
25 Oct 2018Ponderings on the Holy Quran Why does the Quran call Jesus the Word of God and mention the Holy Spirit with him? The Quran uses terms of Jesus that it uses of no other prophet, the Word of God and the Holy Spirit, which Muslims do not take literally. He suggests this Christian rhetoric was perhaps meant to build bridges with Christians. Lessonposition checkedYasir QadhiIsa (Jesus)Quran 3:45 (a word from Him, the Messiah Jesus son of Mary; he cites it as 3:43)Quran 4:171 (the Messiah, messenger of Allah and His word; he cites it as 4:170) machine6 min 28 s0:05on YouTube
25 Oct 2018Ponderings on the Holy Quran What verses do Muslims use to argue Jesus had a natural birth with a father? The Quran implies a virgin conception but never states it, and the scholars who held Jesus had a father argue from 6:85-87 and 6:101. People may believe either, but calling those scholars deviant is a huge stretch. Lessonposition checkedYasir QadhiQuran 66:12 (Mary who guarded her chastity; we breathed into it of our spirit)Quran 4:24 (al-muhsanat, the married women)Quran 19:16-22 (the annunciation to Mary) machine8 min 40 s11:43on YouTube
15 Mar 2018Responding to Refutations What are the main problems with the hadith about Jesus returning? Mufti Abu Layth says the return narrations conflict with the Quran, the Sunnah and Islam's principles, rest on solitary reports that cannot found aqidah, and contradict one another, from Constantinople to who the Dajjal is. He notes that the hadith of Jibril on faith and the Prophet's answers on the signs of the hour do not mention Jesus. Lessonposition checkedIsa (Jesus)Dajjalkhabar al-ahadaqidah machine2 min 07 s15:42on YouTube