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Cited in 12 segments across 10 recordings · 2018 to 2021 · term/term:ahad

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Newest first. Each opens the whole segment, not a bare quote.
13 Apr 2021Monday Nights with Mufti Abu Layth Did Dr Abdul Majid refute Mufti Abu Layth's BukhariGate arguments? No: Mufti Abu Layth says Dr Abdul Majid accepted Bukhari because other scholars had and did not answer the points on its transmission, though he respects him for having the dialogue. Question from live chatDr Abdul MajidSahih al-Bukharial-Firabri (referred to, not named: the sole transmitter of Sahih al-Bukhari)qat'i (conclusive) machine6 min 37 s1:53:57on YouTube
26 Jan 2021Monday Nights with Mufti Abu Layth Did the debate with Dr Abdullah Abdul Majid answer the BukhariGate challenge? Mufti Abu Layth says the discussion did not settle BukhariGate but strengthened it, since doubts about the book's transmission mean reports contradicting reason or the Quran should be set aside. Lessonposition checkedDr Abdullah Abdul Majid [?]Sahih al-BukhariImam al-BukhariImam Malik machine5 min 14 s1:16:45on YouTube
22 Apr 2020MindTrap with Mufti Abu Layth Can a hadith in Sahih al-Bukhari be questioned? Sahih means Bukhari and Muslim verified the chains, which says little about the content, since reliable narrators still err and insert explanations; only the few mutawatir reports, mostly practices like the number of units in prayer, are beyond doubt. Mufti Abu Layth says he believes all the hadith on Aisha's age are weak. Discussionguest speechDr Shabir Ally (guest)Aishareport: married her when she was six and consummated the marriage when she was nineSahih al-Bukhari machine6 min 33 s55:51on YouTube
24 May 2019Hadith Studies If I drank alcohol, are my prayers and fasts rejected for 40 days? No: the fast and prayer are valid. He calls the forty-days hadith an isolated, weak report that clashes with the Quran and reason, though alcohol stays haram. Question source not recordedposition checkedreport: man shariba al-khamr lam tuqbal lahu salat arbain sabahanalcohol (khamr)khabar al-ahad (isolated reports)Sunan Ibn Majah machine10 min 57 s0:38on YouTube
30 Nov 2018Mothers of the Believers: The Wives of the Blessed Prophet ﷺ Why do some scholars still insist Aisha was nine? Lacking an earlier authority is no reason to keep the young age, since medieval scholars also accepted slavery and other rulings no one would defend today. No hadith gives certain knowledge, so an inconclusive report that blemishes the Prophet's honour is rejected. Lessonposition checkedAishaal-AlbaniIbn Taymiyyaijma' machine4 min 36 s15:43on YouTube
20 Oct 2018Responding to Refutations What are the three points of Yasir Qadhi's khutbah on orthodoxy, and is hadith certain knowledge? The khutbah's three points are that reinterpreting the Quran through reason or science is heresy, that doubting the hadith sources is heresy, and that a radical new interpretation amounts to claiming prophethood. Mufti Abu Layth agrees that rejecting hadith wholesale is wrong but says the hadith quoted for it is weak and that hadith is khabar ahad, not certain knowledge. Lessonposition checkedYasir Qadhireport: the hadith of al-irbad ibn sariya in abu dawud (unresolved; content not stated, called weak)Sunan Abi DawudSahih al-Bukhari machine6 min 33 s3:53on YouTube
20 Oct 2018Responding to Refutations Is hadith the same as the sunnah, and is hadith certain knowledge? The sunnah is distinct from hadith and reaches Muslims through the living tradition of fiqh, not from hadith books. Hadith are khabar ahad, not certain knowledge, so the Ash'ari and Maturidi orthodoxy does not build beliefs on them, and the Hanafis and Malikis reject solitary reports that contradict reason or their principles. Lessonposition checkedYasir QadhiImam MalikAbu Hanifareport: the hadith of al-irbad ibn sariya in abu dawud (unresolved; content not stated, called weak) machine6 min 35 s1:13:18on YouTube
20 Sep 2018Clarifying False Hadith Which Insult Islam Why does hadith dogmatism fail, according to the war-wager paradox? Using the crocodile paradox, he argues that a sound system cannot produce an unsound result, so hadith dogmatism fails and Imam Malik's method should be followed instead. Lessonposition checkedImam Malikkhabar al-ahad [?]The Quran takes precedence over an isolated hadith machine3 min 46 s15:43on YouTube
10 May 2018Ponderings on the Holy Quran Can a life be taken on the basis of a doubtful hadith? There is no verse and no conclusively established hadith for killing apostates, and a life, whose sanctity is conclusive, cannot be taken on isolated reports that carry doubt; defending it while demanding religious freedom in the West is a double standard. Lessonposition checkednazar (reasoned contemplation, in theology)BJPkhabar al-ahadqat'i (conclusive) machine5 min 17 s48:25on YouTube
15 Mar 2018Responding to Refutations What are the main problems with the hadith about Jesus returning? Mufti Abu Layth says the return narrations conflict with the Quran, the Sunnah and Islam's principles, rest on solitary reports that cannot found aqidah, and contradict one another, from Constantinople to who the Dajjal is. He notes that the hadith of Jibril on faith and the Prophet's answers on the signs of the hour do not mention Jesus. Lessonposition checkedIsa (Jesus)Dajjalkhabar al-ahadaqidah machine2 min 07 s15:42on YouTube
13 Mar 2018Islamic Eschatology Reply to Abu Ibrahim's post and Hizb ut-Tahrir's double standard Critics who have long opposed Mufti Abu Layth, including Hizb ut-Tahrir whose own literature treats the return of Jesus as a solitary report, have united against him; he puts this down to sectarian politics. LessonAbu Ibrahim [?] (online critic)khabar al-ahadMahdi machine3 min 52 s10:24on YouTube
13 Mar 2018Islamic Eschatology Summary of the case against a second coming; Ibn Hazm on hadith against reason There is no second coming of Jesus in Islam: the reports contradict the Quran, Sunnah and principles, are single-transmitter reports not creed, contradict each other, parallel the Bible, and are absent from the Quran and the Prophet's definition of faith. Lessonposition checkedkhabar al-ahadIbn HazmImam MalikAbu Hanifa machine2 min 39 s2:19:16on YouTube