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Ibn Hajar al-Asqalani

Cited in 32 segments across 20 recordings · 2017 to 2022 · scholar/scholar:ibn-hajar

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19 Aug 2022video Why did Ibn Hajar say the satanic verses story has some basis? Mufti Abu Layth says Ibn Hajar wrongly argued that the many weak chains give the story a basis, and attributes the mistake to passion for the hadith project rather than malice. Lessonposition checkedIbn Hajar al-AsqalaniFath al-BariIbn al-SalahQadi Iyad machine7 min 49 s1:18:40on YouTube
19 Aug 2022video What does the Quran say against the satanic verses story? Mufti Abu Layth says al-Suyuti repeated Ibn Hajar's mistake, while the Quran rules the story out: the Prophet does not speak from desire and Satan has no power to speak in his voice. Lessonposition checkedal-SuyutiIbn Hajar al-Asqalanial-Tabarireport: the water of zamzam is for whatever it is drunk for (unresolved; collection not stated) machine7 min 51 s1:26:29on YouTube
19 Aug 2022video LatestWhich scholars accepted the satanic verses story and which rejected it? Mufti Abu Layth says al-Albani and Ibn Khuzayma rejected the story as a fabrication, while Ibn Taymiyya, Muhammad ibn Abd al-Wahhab and Ibn Hajar leaned towards giving it some basis. Lessonposition checkedal-AlbaniNasb al-Majaniq li-Nasf Qissat al-Gharaniq [?]Qadi IyadQadi Abu Bakr ibn al-Arabi machine7 min 50 s1:34:20on YouTube
19 Aug 2022video What does the Mufti think of Ibn Taymiyya and Muhammad ibn Abd al-Wahhab? Mufti Abu Layth says Ibn Taymiyya's contribution is mainly to the Salafis and that Muhammad ibn Abd al-Wahhab's misplaced zeal did great harm, while stressing that all scholars are human and make mistakes. Lessonposition checkedIbn Hajar al-AsqalaniIbn TaymiyyaMuhammad ibn Abd al-Wahhabal-Suyuti machine5 min 14 s1:42:10on YouTube
19 Aug 2022video Should loyalty to a scholar ever come before the honour of the Prophet? No: he says loyalty belongs first to the Prophet, so a report that disparages him must be rejected whoever accepted it, citing Imam Malik's maxim that everyone's words can be accepted or rejected except the Prophet's. Lessonposition checkedal-SuyutiIbn Hajar al-AsqalaniIbn TaymiyyaImam Malik machine5 min 21 s1:47:24on YouTube
19 Aug 2022video Recap: the novel, insult versus critique, and the false story summarised Mufti Abu Layth recaps that Rushdie's novel was an insult rather than a critique and that the satanic verses story is a fabrication rejected by al-Tabari, Ibn Khuzayma and Qadi Iyad, recommending al-Shifa and al-Albani's book. LessonSalman RushdieIbn Rushd (Averroes)The Satanic Verses (novel)Quran 22:52 (Satan cast into the prophet's wish, then God annulled it) machine6 min 09 s1:52:45on YouTube
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
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
15 Feb 2021video Why does Bukhari accept a narrator who praised Ali's killer while Shia narrators are rejected? Mufti Abu Layth calls it a double standard that al-Bukhari accepts as trustworthy a narrator who praised Ibn Muljam for killing Ali, while reports from Imam Jafar and other Shia imams are rejected because of their source. Lessonposition checkedImran ibn Hittan [?]Imam al-BukhariSahih al-BukhariSiyar A'lam al-Nubala machine3 min 33 s0:00on YouTube
5 Jan 2021Monday Nights with Mufti Abu Layth Was the woman who refused the Prophet in Bukhari's divorce chapter his wife? The chapter's reports are confused and defenders strain to reconcile them; he says hadith scholars, like doctors, were institutionalised in their field. Question from live chatposition checkedSahih al-Bukhari 5255 (give yourself to me; does a queen give herself to a commoner)Sahih al-BukhariIbn Hajar al-Asqalani machine5 min 58 s48:31on YouTube
24 Jul 2019Quick Fiqh! Can reports from Shia sources about Hasan and Husayn be trusted? Mufti Abu Layth accepts the reports as factual, saying the Shia had no reason to invent earrings for their own Imams, and calls it hypocrisy that Sunnis accept Imran ibn Hittan, a Khariji who praised Ali's killer, as a narrator in Sahih al-Bukhari while rejecting anything from Imam Jafar al-Sadiq. Lessonposition checkedHasan ibn AliHusayn ibn AliImam Jafar al-SadiqShia machine5 min 16 s31:22on YouTube
30 Aug 2018BukhariGate: Issues with Sahih al-Bukhari Nonsensical Arabic in hadith 5492: the alcohol slaughtered by fish and sun The closing words of hadith 5492 are nonsensical Arabic that early scholars crossed out as an error. Later commentators should admit this rather than strain to make sense of it. Lessonposition checkedSahih al-BukhariSahih al-Bukhari 5492report: the best of your vinegar is the vinegar of your alcoholQuran 5:96 machine3 min 59 s32:03on 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
29 May 2018Islamic Eschatology Do the signs of the Hour have to come before the Hour? Not necessarily: Mufti Abu Layth accepts the view that the signs can occur with the Hour itself, as the world ends and a timeless realm begins. Lessonposition checkedashrat al-sa'ah (signs of the Hour)al-Tibi [?]Ibn Hajar [?] machine1 min 18 s9:41on YouTube
4 May 2018Clarifying False Hadith Which Insult Islam Should I refuse to shake hands with the opposite sex where it is the custom? Follow the convention you are in: where people do not shake hands, do not; where they do, you may act on the fatwa of the scholars who permit it, since no clear verse or hadith forbids it. Losing citizenship over a handshake was not a battle worth choosing. Lessonposition checkedreport: umm haram bint milhan would comb the prophets hair and prepare his food and he would nap at her houseUmm Haram bint MilhanIbn Abd al-Barral-Hafiz al-Dimyati [?] machine3 min 16 s9:10on 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
15 Mar 2018Responding to Refutations Does Quran 43:61 say Jesus is the sign of the hour? No: Hasan al-Basri read 'knowledge of the hour' as the Quran, others as the Prophet, and the verse says knowledge, not sign, so the critics must interpret it too. Mufti Abu Layth adds that the Mahdi was also called mutawatir by Ibn Hajar, al-Shawkani and others yet is absent from al-Tahawi's creed. Lessonposition checkedIsa (Jesus)Quran 43:61 (and he is knowledge of the hour)Hasan al-Basrimutawatir machine2 min 36 s10:26on 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 Isn't the return of Jesus established by ijma and mutawatir hadith? There is no consensus on what ijma is, and tawatur is applied selectively: the same scholars reject the Gospels, Hindu miracle reports and Shia transmissions that would qualify by their own definition. Question raised by Mufti Abu Laythposition checkedijma'mutawatirIbn Hajar al-Asqalani machine3 min 54 s1:34:43on YouTube
13 Mar 2018Islamic Eschatology Zuhri's reports: Fatima's anger, the attempted suicide, and half the Jesus hadith Scholars discard Zuhri's Fatima and suicide reports as his insertions but refuse to question the Jesus reports, half of which come through him with disconnected chains; Mufti Abu Layth calls this a double standard. LessonIbn Shihab al-ZuhriIbn Hajar al-Asqalanial-AlbaniImam Malik machine3 min 57 s1:37:20on YouTube
13 Mar 2018Islamic Eschatology Shawkani against claimed consensus: music, following a madhhab, four wives, raf' al-yadayn Those who cite Shawkani's claim that the return is mutawatir do not follow him when he rejects other consensuses or calls raf' al-yadayn mutawatir; claimed consensuses have been overturned before. Lessonposition checkedal-Shawkanial-NawawiIbn Hajar al-Asqalanial-Shafi'i machine3 min 55 s1:53:04on YouTube
13 Mar 2018Islamic Eschatology Why would Jesus need to come back at all? Muslims have had to invent a reason for Jesus's return; killing a Dajjal who melts on sight is an anti-climax, and the other tasks contradict Jesus's own character and the Quran. Question raised by Mufti Abu Laythposition checkedIbn Hajar al-Asqalanial-ShawkaniIbn Hajar al-Haytamial-Sakhawi machine3 min 55 s2:16:41on YouTube
21 Feb 2018Responding to Refutations How does he view the Salafi movement, and is hadith narrator criticism a divine science? The Salafi movement began as a courageous rejection of tradition but, once established, became as dogmatic as what it opposed. Narrator criticism is a human science, so it is always open to revision and disagreement. Lessonposition checkedSalafi movementHanbali creedAsh'ari and Maturidi creedIbn Hajar machine3 min 54 s10:29on YouTube
21 Feb 2018On the Prophet Muhammad ﷺ If the Safiyya story is in Sahih al-Bukhari, why question it? Because Bukhari's own narrations of the incident conflict, all rest on Anas, and Anas himself says nobody witnessed a marriage and they only assumed one from her being veiled. Earlier scholars were great but shaped by their times, and loyalty to them should not come before the Prophet's honour. Lessonposition checkedSahih al-BukhariAnas ibn Malikreport: if the prophet veiled safiyya she was a wife and if not she was what his right hand possessedSafiyya machine5 min 09 s40:25on YouTube
9 Feb 2018On the Prophet Muhammad ﷺ Are some hadith about the Prophet actually blasphemous? Yes: Mufti Abu Layth says reports that the Prophet married a nine-year-old, was bewitched or became impotent are the real blasphemy, and urges scholars to denounce them. Discussionposition checkedreport: married her when she was six and consummated the marriage when she was ninereport: magic was done on the prophet and he became impotentreport: musa ran naked so that people could see he had no herniareport: the prophet sent ali to kill a man accused with mariya and he was found to have no penis machine7 min 41 s18:41on YouTube
2 Jan 2018Responding to Refutations Anal intercourse: the difference of opinion and the chains of the critic's hadith On anal intercourse Mufti Abu Layth says only that there is a difference of opinion: the majority held it haram, many Malikis did not and disliked it for hygiene. He argues that every hadith the critic quoted against it has a weak or disconnected chain. Lessonquoted view, not his positionAbu Ibraheem HusnaynSufyan al-ThawriQadi IyadAbu Muhammad al-Asili [?] machine11 min 53 s24:50on YouTube
29 Sep 2017From the Mind of a Mufti Did great scholars like Ibn Hajar have private lives that would be condemned today? Ibn Hajar al-Asqalani married a woman who had been his wife's slave girl without anyone warning the ummah against him, Mufti Abu Layth says, so such private conduct cannot be called abuse. Words like abuse imply real abuse and are dangerous. Lessonposition checkedIbn Hajar al-AsqalaniFath al-BariSahih al-Bukhari machine2 min 36 s30:07on YouTube
14 Sep 2017From the Mind of a Mufti Can Islamic punishments like stoning and cutting off hands change with time? Yes, in his understanding: the Sharia itself asks for punishments fitting the age, so today they would be replaced by penalties such as prison, following Maliki and other precedents. Question source not recordedposition checkedhudud (prescribed punishments)the hudud change with the agetrajectory hermeneuticsmaqasid al-shari'ah [?] machine5 min 03 s0:00on YouTube
11 Jan 2017Mothers of the Believers: The Wives of the Blessed Prophet ﷺ The reports: Hisham's Iraqi transmission, Madinan silence and Asma's age The six-and-nine report rests on Hisham ibn Urwa's later Iraqi transmission and no Madinan compiler carries it. Asma's reported age makes Aisha about eighteen at her marriage. Lessonposition checkedHisham ibn UrwaImam MalikIbn Shihab al-ZuhriIbn Hajar [?] machine5 min 12 s57:37on YouTube