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Muhammad ibn Yusuf al-Farabri

Cited in 17 segments across 8 recordings · 2018 to 2021 · scholar/scholar:farabri

Citing segments

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9 Feb 2021Monday Nights with Mufti Abu Layth Can al-Firabri, the transmitter of Sahih al-Bukhari, be trusted? Mufti Abu Layth says al-Firabri deserves some suspicion: not evil, but not the great imam later generations made him. Question from live chatposition checkedMuhammad ibn Yusuf al-FarabriImam al-BukhariSahih al-Bukhari machine3 min 07 s58:18on YouTube
26 Jan 2021Monday Nights with Mufti Abu Layth How did the BukhariGate discussion go on manuscripts and problematic hadith? Mufti Abu Layth says the guest did not contest the manuscript evidence, and that defending the problematic reports amounts to claiming the Prophet could err but al-Bukhari could not. Lessonposition checkedDr Abdullah Abdul Majid [?]Farid [?]Sahih al-BukhariFath al-Bari machine10 min 29 s1:21:59on YouTube
20 Oct 2020video Why do critics refuse to debate the authenticity of Sahih al-Bukhari? Critics who say Mufti Abu Layth knows nothing about Sahih al-Bukhari decline his invitation to debate it, and Jonathan Brown admitted on Facebook that he lacked the research. Mufti says al-Farabri's reliability can only be asserted from sources centuries later, not from anyone who knew him. Discussionguest speechSahih al-BukhariJonathan BrownMuhammad ibn Yusuf al-FarabriSharaf al-Din al-Yunini [?] machine3 min 59 s0:00on YouTube
20 Oct 2020video Who vouched for al-Farabri, the transmitter of Sahih al-Bukhari? Sahih al-Bukhari reaches us through al-Farabri alone, and nobody who knew him vouched for him, so Mufti Abu Layth says the whole edifice rests on one man. Critics who only know how to debate the Shia avoid this question. Discussionguest speechSahih al-BukhariJonathan BrownMuhammad ibn Yusuf al-FarabriShia machine2 min 38 s3:59on YouTube
20 Oct 2020video Why do preachers attack views in public that they tolerate in private? Most preachers are controlled by the crowd that follows them: the same figures who are friendly off camera attack Mufti Abu Layth on camera because their followers expect it. Al-Farabri likewise took an opportunity that brought fame, which does not oblige others to be blind. Discussionguest speechMuhammad ibn Yusuf al-FarabriSalafiBarelvi machine3 min 56 s6:37on YouTube
22 Apr 2020MindTrap with Mufti Abu Layth Can Sahih al-Bukhari be proven to be the book Imam al-Bukhari wrote? Mufti Abu Layth holds that what is really mutawatir is the living tradition, not any hadith, and that Sahih al-Bukhari cannot be proven to be Bukhari's exact book since it rests on one unvouched transmitter, Farabri. Each report should therefore be weighed against reason, the Quran and the principles of Islam like any other hadith. Discussionguest speechDr Shabir Ally (guest)mutawatirThe deen reaches us through continuous living practiceIbn Hibban [?] machine3 min 59 s1:01:06on YouTube
30 Mar 2020video Should we recite Sahih al-Bukhari to protect ourselves from the coronavirus? No: reciting Sahih al-Bukhari is not the way to tackle the coronavirus, and the Quran itself is not a medical cure; people can simply make du'a. Discussionguest speechthe coronavirus pandemic (2020)ta'wiz (amulet)Sahih al-Bukharithe Mongol invasions machine11 min3:43on YouTube
1 Sep 2018BukhariGate: Issues with Sahih al-Bukhari What is BukhariGate and why does Mufti Abu Layth say Sahih al-Bukhari is not reliable? Sahih al-Bukhari cannot reliably be traced to its author because it reaches us through one transmitter, al-Farabri, whom nobody vouched for in his lifetime, and because transmission and memory reconstruct what they pass on. Mufti Abu Layth accepts hadith by the scholars' own standards, that a report not contradict reason, the Quran or an Islamic principle, while relying on the living tradition that Imam Malik called the Sunnah. Question source not recordedposition checkedSahih al-Bukharial-BukhariMuhammad ibn Yusuf al-FarabriImam Malik machine5 min 10 s0:00on YouTube
1 Sep 2018BukhariGate: Issues with Sahih al-Bukhari Why does Mufti Abu Layth reject the Bukhari report of Sulayman and the hundred women? The report of Sulayman going to a hundred women in one night is absurd and disrespects a prophet, and its moral that God punished him with a disabled child paints a troubling picture of God. A report that clashes with reason, the Quran or Islamic principles goes out of the window. Lessonposition checkedSahih al-Bukhari 2819 (Sulayman: tonight I will go to a hundred women)Sahih al-BukhariSulayman (Solomon)Muhammad ibn Yusuf al-Farabri machine3 min 55 s18:15on YouTube
1 Sep 2018BukhariGate: Issues with Sahih al-Bukhari Why does Mufti Abu Layth say BukhariGate matters? BukhariGate matters because the whole of Sahih al-Bukhari rests on one transmitter, al-Farabri, and because the reports in it repay the Prophet and his companions with disrespect. Mufti Abu Layth attributes their circulation to Wahhabis and their sympathisers, whom he condemns in strong terms. Lessonposition checkedSahih al-Bukhari 137 as cited (the Prophet slept until he could be heard breathing deeply and prayed without wudu) [?]Sahih al-BukhariMuhammad ibn Yusuf al-FarabriUmar ibn al-Khattab machine2 min 38 s30:03on YouTube
30 Aug 2018BukhariGate: Issues with Sahih al-Bukhari The third problem: can Bukhari be traced to its author? The bullet points Sahih al-Bukhari cannot be traced to its author beyond reasonable doubt. It rests on one unvouched transmitter, his students admit an incomplete and altered copy, their copies disagree, and later editions needed correction. Lessonposition checkedSahih al-BukhariJonathan BrownMuhammad ibn Yusuf al-FarabriSharaf al-Din al-Yunini machine6 min 33 s11:50on YouTube
30 Aug 2018BukhariGate: Issues with Sahih al-Bukhari Bukhari's persecution and why his book reaches us through one transmitter Bukhari was persecuted and boycotted in his last years by Hanafis and Hanbali literalists, so few transmitted his book and it reaches us through Farabri alone. The same two groups now insist it reaches us with certainty. Lessonposition checkedImam al-BukhariAbu HanifaImam MuslimMuhammad ibn Yusuf al-Farabri machine3 min 57 s58:29on 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
30 Aug 2018BukhariGate: Issues with Sahih al-Bukhari Ibn Hajar and Ibn Rushayd on the transmissions: Farabri alone, found copies not taught Ibn Hajar and Ibn Rushayd both record that Farabri's is the only transmission that reached later generations through teaching. Copies found centuries later cannot be taught from, so claims of independent connected transmissions are not honest. Lessonposition checkedSahih al-BukhariIbn Hajar al-AsqalaniFath al-BariIbn Rushayd [?] machine6 min 33 s1:10:18on YouTube
30 Aug 2018BukhariGate: Issues with Sahih al-Bukhari Who vouched for Farabri? Baji, Sam'ani and whether transmission implies reliability Nobody who knew Farabri declared him reliable, and the attributions to al-Baji and al-Sam'ani cannot be found in their works. That scholars transmitted from him proves nothing, since transmission is not endorsement. Lessonposition checkedMuhammad ibn Yusuf al-FarabriIbn Rushayd [?]Abu al-Walid al-BajiAbu Bakr al-Sam'ani machine9 min 12 s1:16:51on YouTube
30 Aug 2018BukhariGate: Issues with Sahih al-Bukhari Farabri's incomplete copy, the differing student copies and the manuscript patchwork Farabri's copy was incomplete and rearranged, his students' copies differ in chains and hadith, and every later manuscript down to the Sultaniyya edition was a patchwork that needed correction. Lessonposition checkedSahih al-BukhariIbn Hajar al-AsqalaniFath al-BariMuhammad ibn Yusuf al-Farabri machine6 min 41 s1:26:03on YouTube
3 Aug 2018Responding to Refutations Can Sahih al-Bukhari be proven to go back to Imam al-Bukhari? Mufti Abu Layth says it cannot be proven beyond reasonable doubt: the printed Sultaniyya rests on the lost Yuniniyya, the copies disagree, al-Saghani's claimed copy of Farabri's text is unseen, and Farabri himself was vouched for only centuries later. He challenges his critics to prove otherwise. Lessonposition checkedSunni Defence (YouTube channel)Sahih al-BukhariImam al-BukhariMuhammad ibn Yusuf al-Farabri machine6 min 30 s9:05on YouTube