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al-Dhahabi

Cited in 15 segments across 11 recordings · 2018 to 2021 · scholar/scholar:al-dhahabi

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13 Apr 2021Monday Nights with Mufti Abu Layth When should reason take priority over religious texts? Reason always comes first, Mufti Abu Layth says, because every reading of scripture is already an interpretation; hadith dogmatism grew from Ibn Taymiyya's era and revived under colonialism. Question from live chatposition checkedaql (reason)Sapir-Whorf hypothesisIbn TaymiyyaIbn al-Salah machine9 min 07 s2:09:48on YouTube
14 Mar 2021video Why does Mufti Abu Layth say the Bukhari chain for Jesus's descent is unreliable? The first Bukhari chain leaves two narrators' names ambiguous, a practice al-Dhahabi and Ibn Hajar record of al-Bukhari, and passes through al-Zuhri, whom the critics describe as inserting his own words into reports and making mursal reports reach the Prophet. Lessonposition checkedreport: yanzilu fikum ibn maryam hakaman adlanreport: the prophet tried to end his life on several occasionsSahih al-Bukharial-Bukhari machine9 min 18 s1:35:56on YouTube
14 Mar 2021video Who are the problematic narrators in the Sahih Muslim reports on Jesus's return? The Sahih Muslim chains include a narrator who suffered memory loss, a narrator who cannot be identified and could not have met Abu Hurayra, a major mudallis whose reports some critics discarded as fabrications, and Abu al-Zubayr, whom Abu Hatim did not consider reliable. Lessonposition checkedSahih Muslimal-BukhariAli ibn al-Madinial-Dhahabi machine6 min 32 s1:50:30on YouTube
2 Mar 2021Monday Nights with Mufti Abu Layth Is the hadith in Bukhari about Jesus coming down reliable? The first Bukhari chain is doubtful: al-Bukhari left two narrators unnamed, which he is known to have done deliberately, and the chain runs through al-Zuhri, who was known to insert his own words into hadith. Lessonposition checkedYasir Qadhireport: yanzilu fikum ibn maryam hakaman adlanSahih al-Bukharial-Bukhari machine9 min 33 s2:38:55on YouTube
2 Mar 2021Monday Nights with Mufti Abu Layth Are the Sahih Muslim reports about Jesus's return reliable? Further Sahih Muslim chains contain a narrator with memory loss, an unidentifiable narrator who could not have met Abu Hurayra, Ibn Jurayj, whom he calls a major mudallis, and Abu al-Zubayr. Lessonposition checkedSahih Muslimal-BukhariAbu Dawudal-Layth ibn Sa'd machine6 min 14 s2:54:10on YouTube
24 Jul 2019Quick Fiqh! Did early Sunni hadith scholars such as Sufyan ibn Uyayna wear earrings? Yes: the Musnad of Abu Ya'la records a hadith student wearing two earrings, and al-Dhahabi's Siyar A'lam al-Nubala describes the young Sufyan ibn Uyayna sitting in Amr ibn Dinar's hadith class with an earring in his ear. LessonHusayn ibn AliMusnad Abi Ya'laAbu Ya'la al-Mawsilireport: i went to visit him while still a young man and at that time i had two earrings in my ear when i studied hadith machine2 min 35 s16:58on YouTube
20 Dec 2018From the Mind of a Mufti Were there Muslim scholars and caliphs in history known to be homosexual? Mufti Abu Layth reports, without endorsing their views, that several celebrated Abbasid-era figures were known for homosexuality, including a chief judge of Basra who argued for it from the Quran, the caliphs al-Amin and al-Ma'mun, and Muhammad ibn Dawud al-Zahiri. He cites al-Dhahabi and the poetry of the period as his sources. Lessonquoted view, not his positionYahya ibn Aktham [?]Imam Ahmad ibn Hanbalal-Ma'munal-Amin machine10 min 31 s7:56on YouTube
30 Aug 2018BukhariGate: Issues with Sahih al-Bukhari Imam Bukhari's own practice: transmission by meaning, hidden names, a Khariji narrator Imam Bukhari set a gold standard but did not always apply it: he transmitted by meaning, hid the names of problematic teachers and narrated from a Khariji who praised Ali's killer. Mufti Abu Layth's quarrel is not with Bukhari himself but with how the book is treated. Lessonposition checkedImam al-BukhariSiyar A'lam al-NubalaMizan al-I'tidalal-Dhahabi machine10 min 38 s47:51on YouTube
30 Aug 2018BukhariGate: Issues with Sahih al-Bukhari Bukhari in his own chain, and the other students whose copies did not reach us Sahih al-Bukhari reaches us through Farabri alone, although other students transmitted it. Nasafi's copy survives only in a summary of twelve hundred hadith, little of Hammad ibn Shakir's remains, Bazdawi's did not reach us, and Bukhari even appears in a chain in his own book. Lessonposition checkedSahih al-BukhariImam al-BukhariMuhammad ibn Yusuf al-FarabriSiyar A'lam al-Nubala machine7 min 52 s1:02:26on 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 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 the hadith about women wearing perfume being zaniya authentic? Mufti Abu Layth says the report is not authentic: every version comes through one weak narrator, Thabit ibn Umara, from the obscure Ghunaym ibn Qays, and some early authorities stopped it at the companion. Lessonposition checkedreport: ayyuma imraatin istatarat fa marrat ala qawmin li yajidu rihaha fa hiya zaniyareport: antum al-yawm ala iddati ashabi talut (Abu Musa, via Ghunaym, in Ahmad)Abu Musa al-Ash'ariGhunaym ibn Qays machine7 min 53 s2:39on YouTube
21 Feb 2018Responding to Refutations Are the Jabir chains for the crying-tree hadith through Isra'il, Abd al-Razzaq and Ibn Jurayj sound? Mufti Abu Layth argues they are not: one chain rests on Isra'il, whom Yahya ibn Sa'id and Ibn al-Madini weakened, and an unknown narrator; the other on Abd al-Razzaq, criticised for errors from memory, and Ibn Jurayj, a mudallis whose 'akhbarani' referred to books rather than hearing. LessonSunni Defence (YouTube channel)Jabir ibn AbdullahYahya ibn Adam [?]Isra'il [?] machine5 min 13 s31:15on YouTube
9 Feb 2018On the Prophet Muhammad ﷺ Is the hadith of the crying tree trunk authentic? No: Mufti Abu Layth finds weak narrators in each chain, including those in al-Bukhari, and says only the Quran is preserved in its entirety. Lessonposition checkedreport: the tree crying for the prophetminbarJabir ibn AbdullahAnas ibn Malik machine8 min 52 s7:38on YouTube