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Umar ibn Abd al-Aziz

Cited in 8 segments across 7 recordings · 2017 to 2019 · scholar/scholar:umar-ibn-abd-al-aziz

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28 Sep 2019Ponderings on the Holy Quran Why the Quran could not be corrupted like hadith, and the fashion for chains Corrupting the Quran was next to impossible because it was recited en masse everywhere; hadith, written down a century later, were easy to fabricate, and chains for the Quran came later as a fashion. Lessonposition checkedthe 'Satanic Verses' (gharaniq) incidentUmar ibn Abd al-Azizisnad (chain of transmission)ijazah (authorisation to teach, with a chain) machine10 min 59 s12:47on YouTube
18 Sep 2019From the Mind of a Mufti Which scholars held that music is permissible, and what did Imam Malik's school say? Al-Shawkani, Ibn Hazm, Abu Bakr ibn al-Arabi and al-Fakihani all found no sahih hadith prohibiting music, and the people of Madinah, including the qadi Sa'd ibn Ibrahim, held it permissible, with some transmitting this as Imam Malik's own position. Only Allah and His Messenger are authorities, so a refutation needs a sahih hadith. Lessonposition checkedal-ShawkaniNayl al-AwtarSalafithe practice of the people of Madinah machine7 min 50 s2:41on 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
13 Mar 2018Islamic Eschatology Why hadith, not the Quran or fiqh, was corrupted: Umar ibn Abd al-Aziz, Zuhri and forged chains Mufti Abu Layth holds that early opponents corrupted hadith, not the Quran or fiqh, in the century before chains were demanded; this is why Malik relied on inherited practice and treated isolated reports as information, not creed. Lessonposition checkedUmar ibn Abd al-AzizIbn Shihab al-ZuhriAbu Bakr ibn Hazm [?]Ibn Sirin machine6 min 34 s1:26:52on YouTube
2 Jan 2018Responding to Refutations Music: the hadith on singing and hypocrisy, and scholars who permitted music Nothing proven categorically makes music haram, and lyrics by themselves do not make listening haram. The hadith the critic cited on singing and hypocrisy is weak in every chain, and he lists scholars who said no sahih report forbids music. Lessonposition checkedAbu Ibraheem Husnaynreport: singing grows hypocrisy in the heart as water grows vegetation (unresolved)Ibn Mas'ud [?]al-Shawkani machine10 min 26 s14:24on YouTube
9 Sep 2017From the Mind of a Mufti Did the Prophet migrate to Madinah to set up a state, and when did the khilafah end? The guest says the Prophet left Makkah because he was forced out, not to found a state, and the khilafah rashidah ended with Ali, after which Umayyads and Abbasids were kings in all but name. The Quranic promise of khilafah was for the first generation only, and the 1924 abolition ended a powerless kingship, not a khilafah. Discussionquoted view, not his positionguest speechShaykh Akram Nadwi (guest)khilafahthe hijrah to Madinahreport: o makkah had your people not forced me out i would never have left you machine3 min 01 s2:10on YouTube
9 Sep 2017From the Mind of a Mufti Why is the call to restore the khilafah dangerous for young Muslims? Mufti Abu Layth says the nostalgic 'Bollywood version' of Islamic history, in which a perfect khilafah existed until 1924, is a fantasy, since the khilafah rashidah never went beyond Ali. Guilt-tripping young Muslims with it and with Dar al-Harb rhetoric breeds the extremist narrative and needs tackling. Discussionguest speechShaykh Akram Nadwi (guest)khilafahal-Khulafa al-Rashidun (the rightly guided caliphs)Salah al-Din al-Ayyubi machine3 min 38 s5:11on YouTube
17 May 2017Ramadan Q&A Fast & Fiqhious LatestShould I pray 8 or 20 rak'ahs of tarawih? Tarawih has no fixed number: eight, the least the Prophet prayed, is the base and anything above it is valid. Twenty was the common practice and the schools' broad view, but neither eight nor twenty is wrong. Question source not recordedposition checkedtarawihrak'ahmadhhabImam Malik machine4 min 36 s0:20on YouTube