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TermAhl al-Hadith
Cited in 8 segments across 4 recordings · 2018 to 2021 · term/term:ahl-al-hadith
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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.
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22 Apr 2020MindTrap with Mufti Abu Layth
Why do Muslims treat reason as the enemy of tradition?
Historically the Ahl al-Hadith defeated the Ahl al-Ra'y, which preserved the tradition but left reason demonised; today reason and tradition must work together. Mufti Abu Layth says asking whether one prefers reason to revelation is a false framing, since the real choice is between one understanding of the Quran and another.
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19 Apr 2020MindTrap with Mufti Abu Layth
Where did Shaykh Kashif Khan study, and what is the difference between Salafi and Ahl al-Hadith?
The guest studied with Salafi scholars in Pakistan, mostly privately; he says Madinah graduates prefer the name Salafi and the Pakistani Ahl al-Hadith prefer Ahl al-Hadith.
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19 Apr 2020MindTrap with Mufti Abu Layth
Is it haram for medical students to dissect dead bodies?
The guest says dissecting cadavers for medical training is permissible, and cites a Salafi fatwa forbidding it as an example of Ahl al-Hadith rigidity.
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19 Apr 2020MindTrap with Mufti Abu Layth
Do some muftis use lenient rulings for themselves but give strict ones to others?
The guest says some muftis take concessions such as the Ahl al-Hadith view on triple talaq for themselves while giving people harsh rulings, citing an account about a mufti in his neighbourhood.
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19 Apr 2020MindTrap with Mufti Abu Layth
Does a triple talaq count as one divorce or three?
The guest says triple talaq drives many to the Ahl al-Hadith view that it counts as one, while some Ahl al-Hadith scholars privately hold it counts as three but will not publish this for fear of controversy.
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19 Apr 2020MindTrap with Mufti Abu Layth
Why do people react so strongly when a scholar challenges established views?
The guest says people feel threatened when their views are challenged, and that independence from groups and donors is what lets a scholar research and speak honestly.
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21 Feb 2018Responding to Refutations
What does he say to critics who accept that the Prophet was impotent, married a nine-year-old or was bewitched into clumsiness?
Mufti Abu Layth says these claims are untrue attacks on the Prophet's honour, resting on reports whose chains he has shown to be defective, and that critics who affirm them to win an argument are themselves being blasphemous. He adds that he does not support capital punishment for such speech.
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