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al-Tahawi

Cited in 9 segments across 7 recordings · 2017 to 2023 · scholar/scholar:al-tahawi

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13 Feb 2023video The created Quran controversy and the birth of a creedal checklist In his research, orthodoxy began with the created-Quran controversy, which gave rise to the language of divine attributes and to growing creedal checklists. Lessonposition checkedthe dispute over the created Quran (mihna)kalam Allah (the speech of God)sifat (the divine attributes)Mu'tazila machine8 min 21 s10:49on YouTube
21 Nov 2020video What did classical scholars say about whether jinn can harm or possess people? Imam al-Shafi'i rejected the testimony of anyone claiming to see jinn, Ibn Hazm forbade adding to what Allah said about them, and al-Tahawi held that Satan can only insinuate, not harm; what is called possession is mental illness, and accepting it would void responsibility. Lessonposition checkedImam al-Shafi'ial-BayhaqiIbn Hazmal-Fisal fi al-Milal (Ibn Hazm) machine7 min 46 s26:14on YouTube
21 Nov 2020video Is the jinn exorcism and ruqya industry a fraud? The ruqya industry is largely a fraud drenched in abuse; the Mu'tazila, who rejected possession, were never afflicted, and al-Jahiz already recorded a practitioner using a possession claim to explain away a lost virginity. Lessonposition checkedal-JahizMu'tazilaruqyaOmar Suleiman machine6 min 37 s43:12on YouTube
10 May 2018Ponderings on the Holy Quran Were apostates punished for disbelief or for fighting against Muslims? The classical punishment targeted apostates who took up arms against the community, not disbelief itself: Umar preferred to restrain and persuade, al-Tahawi tied it to waging war, and the Hanafis exempted women because they were not combatants. Lessonposition checkedUmar ibn al-Khattabreport: umar said i would have restrained him and tried to bring him back (unresolved)al-ShawkaniNayl al-Awtar machine7 min 46 s15:42on YouTube
10 May 2018Ponderings on the Holy Quran Why would an apostate deserve death, and what about the three days to repent? An apostate cannot be killed for disbelief, since that would condemn every disbeliever, and the 'three days to return to Islam' is absurd: it coerces people into hypocrisy and belittles the Prophet's thirteen years of preaching. Lessonposition checkedal-Tahawi [?]Umar ibn Abd al-Azizjizyaistitabah (asking the apostate to repent) machine5 min 14 s43:11on YouTube
15 Mar 2018Responding to Refutations Is someone who denies a line of al-Tahawi's creed a kafir? No: Mufti Abu Layth says this makes al-Tahawi rather than the Quran the standard, that Elmasry himself departs from al-Tahawi on several points, that Ash'ari creed does not make takfir of the people of the qibla, and that al-Tahawi wrote 250 years after the Prophet and is not an Ash'ari authority. LessonShadee ElmasryHamza Maqboolal-Tahawial-Aqidah al-Tahawiyya machine2 min 37 s2:36on YouTube
13 Mar 2018Islamic Eschatology The Creed of Tahawi is not the Quran; Ash'aris do not make takfir of ahl al-qiblah Denying a line of Tahawi's creed is not kufr: Ibn Taymiyya rejected several of its points, it refutes whole Muslim groups, and Ash'ari creed forbids takfir of the people of the qiblah. Lessonposition checkedal-Aqidah al-Tahawiyyaal-TahawiIbn TaymiyyaShadee Elmasry machine2 min 38 s2:06:11on YouTube
20 Sep 2017Debunking Myths On: Jinns, Magic, the Evil Eye, and Superstitions Which classical scholars denied that jinn can possess people? Ibn Hazm held that claiming possession is a claim without knowledge and haram, since the Prophet spoke only of whispering; al-Tahawi noted that every taught du'a is against whispering, al-Razi said Shaytan cannot cause illness, and al-Shafi'i rejected the testimony of anyone claiming to see jinn, which only prophets can. Lessonquoted view, not his positionguest speechShaykh Akram Nadwi (guest)Ibn Hazmal-Fisal fi al-Milal wal-Ahwa' wal-Nihal (Ibn Hazm)al-Tahawi machine7 min 53 s23:06on YouTube
11 Jan 2017Mothers of the Believers: The Wives of the Blessed Prophet ﷺ Unacceptable reports in the Sahihayn and judging a hadith by its content Sahih al-Bukhari and Sahih Muslim contain some reports scholars reject as wrong, so a report is judged by its content as well as its chain. Their sanctification came centuries later. Lessonposition checkedSahih al-BukhariSahih Muslimal-Tahawithe night journey (al-Isra) machine3 min 58 s30:00on YouTube