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Ibn Ashur

Cited in 35 segments across 17 recordings · 2017 to 2022 · scholar/scholar:ibn-ashur

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19 Mar 2022video Is mut'ah (temporary marriage) haram for Sunni Muslims? Mufti Abu Layth says most Sunnis hold mut'ah haram but a minority, including Ibn Ashur, held it is not categorically haram; follow the view you hold and do not fight over it. Question from live chatposition checkedmut'ah (temporary marriage)Ibn Ashural-Tahrir wa al-Tanwir (Ibn Ashur's tafsir, "in 30 volumes")Majd al-Din Ibn Taymiyya [?] (Ibn Taymiyya's grandfather; name garbled in the transcript) machine9 min 02 s0:00on YouTube
6 Apr 2021Monday Nights with Mufti Abu Layth LatestWhere does the belief in the Mahdi come from? The Mahdi belief is disrespectful to the Prophet, who was the rightly guided saviour, and entered Sunni Islam from early Shia political movements; the Mahdi hadith describe figures of that time. Lessonposition checkedMahdiShiaal-Mukhtar al-ThaqafiMuhammad ibn al-Hanafiyya machine8 min2:43:30on YouTube
6 Apr 2021Monday Nights with Mufti Abu Layth Are the signs of the Hour part of Islamic creed? One can be a Maliki and doubt these reports: Ibn Ashur, Shaykh al-Islam of the Malikis, classed the signs of the Hour as information rather than creed, and Imam Ahmad said the malahim reports have no foundation. Lessonguest speechIbn AshuraqidahMahdiIsa (Jesus) machine7 min 06 s2:51:30on YouTube
6 Apr 2021Monday Nights with Mufti Abu Layth Why does Mufti Abu Layth say it is not a huge claim that Imam Malik denied the second coming? Malik's record and Ibn Ashur's standing show a Maliki can deny the second coming, and the Dajjal reports insult the Prophet. He invites Qadhi to a dialogue on MindTrap. Lessonposition checkedImam MalikIsa (Jesus)Yasir QadhiIbn Ashur machine8 min 12 s2:58:36on YouTube
6 Apr 2021Monday Nights with Mufti Abu Layth LatestDoes Mufti Abu Layth have any scholarly precedent for his views? His views have respected precedents: al-Burzuli, a Maliki Shaykh al-Islam, held that punishments change with the age, and the subcontinent scholars he quotes were Ahl al-Hadith, not heretics. Not every untrue statement is a sin punished with hell. Lessonguest speechal-Burzuli [?]punishments change with the ageIbn AshurAbdul Karim Athari [?] machine3 min 50 s3:10:56on YouTube
2 Feb 2021video Did Ibn Ashur say Muslims must believe Jesus was raised alive? Mufti Abu Layth shows that Ibn Ashur, quoted in Shadee Elmasry's post, held only that Jesus was not killed or crucified and was raised and saved, leaving how it happened open to interpretation. Lessonquoted view, not his positionShadee ElmasryIbn Ashural-Tahrir wa al-Tanwir (Ibn Ashur's tafsir)Isa (Jesus) machine8 min6:15on YouTube
2 Feb 2021video Did Ibn Ashur believe Jesus died? Mufti Abu Layth shows that Ibn Ashur read 'inni mutawaffika' as real death, cited Imam Malik for it, and took texts calling Jesus alive as an honorific life like that of martyrs. Lessonquoted view, not his positionIbn Ashural-Tahrir wa al-Tanwir (Ibn Ashur's tafsir)Isa (Jesus)Quran 3:55 (inni mutawaffika: I will take you / give you death) machine5 min 20 s8:00on YouTube
2 Feb 2021video Did Ibn Ashur say nothing in the Quran goes against the second coming of Jesus? Mufti Abu Layth says Ibn Ashur wrote that the Quran does not deal with the second coming, not that nothing in it opposes it; the post confused yata'arrad with a verb meaning 'to oppose'. Lessonposition checkedShadee ElmasryIbn Ashural-Tahrir wa al-Tanwir (Ibn Ashur's tafsir)Isa (Jesus) machine7 min 50 s15:02on YouTube
2 Feb 2021video Did Shadee Elmasry mistranslate Ibn Ashur on purpose? Mufti Abu Layth says the mistranslation shows either incompetence in Arabic or deliberate misleading. LessonShadee ElmasryIbn Ashur machine1 min 53 s21:10on YouTube
2 Feb 2021Monday Nights with Mufti Abu Layth What does the raven in the story of Cain and Abel mean? Mufti Abu Layth reads the Cain and Abel verses as allowing more than one grammatical reading, and takes God to be the one teaching Cain. Lessonposition checkedQuran 5:27-31AdamQabil (Cain)Habil (Abel) machine8 min 43 s1:48:21on YouTube
19 Jan 2021Monday Nights with Mufti Abu Layth Did Ibn Ashur say Jesus was raised alive and will return? Mufti Abu Layth says a preacher's post misquotes the tafsir it cites, which takes the verse to mean Jesus really died and leaves how he was raised open to interpretation. LessonIsa (Jesus)Ibn Ashur [?]al-Tahrir wa al-Tanwir (Ibn Ashur's tafsir) [?]Imam Malik machine12 min 53 s2:45:11on YouTube
19 Jan 2021Monday Nights with Mufti Abu Layth Does the Quran say nothing against Jesus' second coming? Mufti Abu Layth says the post mistranslates the tafsir: it says the Quran does not address the second coming, not that nothing in the Quran opposes it. LessonIsa (Jesus)Ibn Ashur [?]Quran 5:110 machine9 min 42 s2:58:04on YouTube
12 Jan 2021Monday Nights with Mufti Abu Layth LatestIf you deny the evil eye, why do you cite scholars who believed in it? Mufti Abu Layth says scholars who believed in the evil eye were following the science of their day, and one does not take science from them. Question written questionposition checkedal-'ayn (the evil eye)Ibn AshurImam MalikImam al-Bukhari machine3 min 50 s1:47:10on YouTube
15 Nov 2020video Does the Quran mention the evil eye? No: the Quran mentions envy (hasad) but never the evil eye, and the verse about eyes making the Prophet slip is a metaphor for hateful stares, as Ibn Ashur and others explain. Lessonposition checkedQuran 68:51 (they would almost make you slip with their eyes)hasad (envy)al-'ayn (the evil eye)Sahih al-Bukhari machine6 min 43 s2:41on YouTube
15 Nov 2020video Does Surah Yusuf prove the evil eye is real? No: Jacob told his sons to use different gates for their safety and to avoid drawing attention, not because of the evil eye. They had already been to Egypt, so the evil eye reading makes no sense. Lessonposition checkedQuran 12:58-68 (Yusuf's brothers in Egypt; Jacob's advice on the gates)Yusuf (Joseph)Ya'qub (Jacob)Binyamin (Benjamin) machine11 min 39 s44:28on YouTube
15 Nov 2020video Is Surat al-Falaq about protection from the evil eye? No: it seeks refuge from the harm envious people act out and from the superstitious culture around magic, not from an evil eye. The Quran's silence on the evil eye is, to him, a sign of its truth. Lessonposition checkedQuran 113:1-5 (Surat al-Falaq)hasad (envy)Ibn Ashur machine3 min 53 s1:08:18on YouTube
14 Jul 2020live stream Was Sudan right to drop its alcohol and apostasy laws and end flogging? Mufti Abu Layth welcomes Sudan's reforms: flogging today only damages Islam's message, FGM should be outlawed, and alcohol was never prohibited for non-Muslims. Lessonposition checkedSudan's legal reforms (2020)female genital mutilationalcohol (khamr)Ibn Ashur machine2 min 28 s2:08:00on YouTube
18 Oct 2019Hadith Studies Did the Prophet really split the moon in half? No: Mufti Abu Layth says the moon was not split; the companions described what they perceived, most likely a lunar eclipse, and Quran 54:1 is about the end of the world. Question from live chatposition checkedQuran 54:1 (the Hour has drawn near and the moon has split)the splitting of the moonreport: the moon was split in two in the time of the prophetIbn Abbas [?] machine2 min 15 s0:40on YouTube
25 Jul 2019Ponderings on the Holy Quran Does 'those who have not menstruated' in Quran 65:4 refer to little girls? No: Mufti Abu Layth says the phrase refers to women whose cycles are absent through illness or irregularity, as Abu Hayyan, Ibn Ashur, al-Samarqandi, Abu al-Su'ud and Ibn Atiyya read it. Al-Tha'labi records that the verse was revealed about a man who divorced his wife during her menses. Lessonposition checkedQuran 65:4 (those who have despaired of menstruation, if you are in doubt, their iddah is three months, and those who have not menstruated; the pregnant until they give birth)iddah (waiting period after divorce)Abu Hayyan al-AndalusiIbn Ashur machine3 min 57 s18:09on YouTube
25 Jul 2019Ponderings on the Holy Quran Did Imam Malik allow marriage to be consummated with a girl who was not yet nubile? No: Mufti Abu Layth says Imam Malik's fatwa was clear that sexual relations with a wife are haram unless she is nubile. Scholars who read 65:4 to include girls were men influenced by the patriarchy of their age and were wrong, while others such as Ibn Ashur, al-Samarqandi, Abu Hayyan and al-Alusi did not read it so. Lessonposition checkedQuran 65:4 (those who have despaired of menstruation, if you are in doubt, their iddah is three months, and those who have not menstruated; the pregnant until they give birth)Imam MalikfatwaIbn Ashur machine2 min 39 s27:19on YouTube
21 Jul 2018From the Mind of a Mufti Is mut'ah a matter of belief that divides Sunnis and Shia? No: accepting temporary marriage or not is a question of fiqh, not belief, so Sunnis are unfair to attack the Shia over mut'ah. Lessonposition checkedmut'ah (temporary marriage)ShiaSunnifiqh machine3 min 15 s0:00on YouTube
29 May 2018Islamic Eschatology Accused of misquoting Ibn Ashur on the beast of the earth Mufti Abu Layth says a scholar who accused him of misquoting Ibn Ashur accepted, after a civil discussion, that he had not, even while still disagreeing. OtherIbn Ashur machine3 min 54 s0:01on YouTube
29 May 2018Islamic Eschatology Does Ibn Ashur say the beast comes before the Day of Judgment? Mufti Abu Layth reads Ibn Ashur as treating the time from the world's end to the resurrection as one realm, not as placing the beast before the Day of Judgment. Lessonposition checkedIbn Ashural-Tahrir wa al-Tanwir (Ibn Ashur's tafsir)Quran 27:82 (we will bring out for them a creature from the earth)al-Qurtubi [?] machine4 min 31 s10:59on YouTube
29 May 2018Islamic Eschatology Ibn Ashur: the creature speaks to the deniers at the gathering In Ibn Ashur's reading, as Mufti Abu Layth presents it, the creature speaks at the gathering on the Day of Judgment to shame the Quraysh who denied the Prophet. Lessonquoted view, not his positionIbn Ashural-Tahrir wa al-Tanwir (Ibn Ashur's tafsir)Quran 27:82 (we will bring out for them a creature from the earth)Quraysh machine3 min 55 s15:30on YouTube
29 May 2018Islamic Eschatology Calling it a misquotation is poor scholarship Mufti Abu Layth says the misquotation charge reflects weak Arabic or a fixed mindset, and that scholars he consulted confirmed his reading of Ibn Ashur. OtherIbn AshurSahih Muslim machine2 min 13 s19:25on YouTube
10 May 2018Ponderings on the Holy Quran Does Islam punish someone for leaving the faith? Islam gives freedom of belief: the Quran says there is no compulsion in religion and leaves belief to choice, and neither the Quran nor the established Sunnah says an apostate must be killed. Lessonposition checkedQuran 2:256 (there is no compulsion in religion)Quran 18:29 (whoever wishes, let him believe, and whoever wishes, let him disbelieve)Quran 10:99 (would you compel people to become believers?)Quran 109:1-6 (Surah al-Kafirun: to you your religion and to me mine) machine5 min 16 s0:00on 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
15 Apr 2018Debunking Myths On: Jinns, Magic, the Evil Eye, and Superstitions Is jinn possession just a difference of opinion among scholars? Mufti Abu Layth refuses to treat it that way: although scholars from Fakhr al-Din al-Razi to Shaltut, Ibn Ashur and al-Shawkani rejected possession while Ibn Taymiyya affirmed it, this is not a harmless fiqh difference like raising the hands in prayer, because the belief drives abuse and exploitation and brings ridicule on Islam. Lessonposition checkedShaykh Akram NadwiFakhr al-Din al-RaziAbu Ya'la al-Hanbali [?]Mu'tazila machine2 min 07 s1:05:31on YouTube
15 Apr 2018Debunking Myths On: Jinns, Magic, the Evil Eye, and Superstitions What magic means: fantasy magic versus illusion, and the Arabic sihr The question is not illusion or trickery but 'fantasy magic' that changes reality, which he calls absurd; the Arabs used sihr for anything inexplicable. Lessonposition checkedShaykh Akram Nadwisihr (magic)Ibn Ashur machine5 min 07 s0:00on YouTube
15 Apr 2018Debunking Myths On: Jinns, Magic, the Evil Eye, and Superstitions Three kinds of what was called magic: mind control, potions and illusion What people called magic fell into three kinds: mind control and hypnosis, chemical potions, and stage illusion, all of which have natural explanations. Lessonposition checkedFakhr al-Din al-RaziIbn AshurMustafa Bin Hamza [?]Derren Brown machine5 min 06 s5:07on YouTube
15 Apr 2018Debunking Myths On: Jinns, Magic, the Evil Eye, and Superstitions Magic in the Quran: Musa and Pharaoh's magicians, an illusion In the Quran the magic of Pharaoh's magicians was only an illusion; Musa's fear was a natural human reaction, not proof that the magic was real. Lessonposition checkedMusaPharaoh (Fir'awn)Quran 20:66 (their ropes seemed to him to move by their magic; verse not numbered by him)Quran 7:116 (they bewitched the eyes of the people; verse not numbered by him) machine5 min 10 s10:13on YouTube
13 Mar 2018Islamic Eschatology Why would Jesus need to return if the Prophet Muhammad completed the religion? Muslims have no reason of their own for Jesus to return; Mufti Abu Layth rejects the descent hadith because they clash with the Quran and other hadith, not from any misunderstanding of yanzilu. Question raised by Mufti Abu Laythposition checkedShaykh Salek bin SiddinaIbn AshurIbn Hajar al-AsqalaniQuran 12:76 machine5 min 15 s42:18on YouTube
13 Mar 2018Islamic Eschatology Anwar Shah Kashmiri's claim of ijma, and the scholars who rejected the return Kashmiri's compilation of over a hundred return hadith contains mostly weak reports by his own count, and a line of Azhar and other scholars from Abduh to Muhammad al-Ghazali rejected the second coming. Lessonquoted view, not his positionAnwar Shah Kashmirial-ShawkaniIbn TaymiyyaMuhammad Abduh machine2 min 38 s1:47:50on YouTube
13 Mar 2018Islamic Eschatology Ibn Ashur, al-Shatibi and Ibn Khaldun on the Mahdi: a discussion within Islam Ibn Ashur, al-Shatibi and Ibn Khaldun all problematised the Mahdi reports and treated such matters as information rather than creed; Mufti Abu Layth says the return of Jesus is a discussion within Islam. Lessonposition checkedIbn Ashural-ShatibiIbn KhaldunMuhammad Mutawalli al-Sha'rawi machine2 min 38 s2:00:56on YouTube
20 Sep 2017Debunking Myths On: Jinns, Magic, the Evil Eye, and Superstitions Why not treat jinn possession as just a difference of opinion among scholars? Because it is not a harmless difference like raising the hands in prayer: belief in possession underwrites mass exploitation, a multi-million pound industry and ridicule of Islam and its Prophet. Al-Razi, al-Maraghi, Ibn Ashur and al-Shawkani are among those who denied it, and the abuse must end. Lessonposition checkedFakhr al-Din al-RaziAbu Ya'la al-Farra [?] (Hanbali)Mu'tazilaMustafa al-Maraghi machine1 min 55 s1:56:14on YouTube