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Cited in 14 segments across 8 recordings · 2015 to 2021 · term/term:bidah

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14 Mar 2021video Was Yasir Qadhi's video on the return of Jesus an academic discussion? Mufti Abu Layth says Qadhi's video, announced as academic, ended by fabricating a modernist-school narrative and declaring deniers heretics guilty of bid'ah, which he calls a preachy khutbah rather than academic discussion. Lessonguest speechYasir QadhiMuhammad Abduhbid'ah machine2 min 37 s35:30on YouTube

2 Mar 2021Monday Nights with Mufti Abu Layth Was Yasir Qadhi's lecture on Jesus's return really academic? Mufti Abu Layth says Qadhi's lecture, billed as academic, ended by branding deniers of the return innovators and heretics, making it a preachy Friday sermon rather than an academic discussion. Lessonguest speechYasir QadhiMuhammad Abduhbid'ahMaliki school machine3 min1:39:06on YouTube

2 Mar 2021Monday Nights with Mufti Abu Layth Can positions in aqidah fall within a range of scholarly opinion? Mufti Abu Layth shows Qadhi teaching that even aqidah positions lie on a spectrum and that no scholar's word is evidence in itself, while calling Mufti a heretic for departing from the majority. Lessonguest speechYasir QadhiIbn Taymiyyaaqidah (creed)bid'ah machine3 min 38 s2:09:14on YouTube

4 Aug 2020Monday Nights with Mufti Abu Layth Is it okay to celebrate the Mawlid? Mufti Abu Layth says people may celebrate the Mawlid if they wish, though he does not, but road-blocking processions are a nuisance he condemns. Question from live chatposition checkedmawlidbid'ah (innovation)Imam Malik machine1 min 50 s46:21on YouTube

16 Jul 2020video If Muslims can reconvert the Hagia Sophia, can Israel or India reconvert mosques too? By the 'might is right' logic used to justify the reconversion, he says, Israel could turn al-Aqsa into the Temple of Solomon and India's Hindu majority could turn mosques into temples, so Muslims who celebrate cannot then complain. Leave the building be. Lessonposition checkedThrasymachusmight is right (the law of Thrasymachus), rejectedthe Babri Masjidthe reconversion of the Hagia Sophia to a mosque machine3 min 56 s18:26on YouTube

14 Jul 2020live stream If Turkey can reconvert the Hagia Sophia, can Israel or India reconvert mosques too? By the 'might is right' logic behind the reconversion, Israel could reclaim al-Aqsa and India's Hindus the Babri Masjid, so Muslims who celebrate cannot then complain. Lessonposition checkedThrasymachusSocratesmight is right (the law of Thrasymachus), rejectedal-Masjid al-Aqsa machine3 min 50 s1:33:19on YouTube

12 Dec 2019From the Mind of a Mufti Is al-wala wal-bara, loving and hating for the sake of Allah, part of Islam? The doctrine of loving and hating for the sake of God (al-wala wal-bara) is a Wahhabi invention spread with Gulf money and not part of the tradition. The Quranic bara'a means detachment of association, not hatred. Lessonposition checkedal-wala wal-bara (loyalty and disavowal)bara'a (disavowal, detachment of association)Muhammad ibn Abd al-WahhabQuran 9:1-3 (a declaration of bara'a from Allah and His Messenger towards those who broke the covenant) [?] machine2 min 57 s7:52on YouTube

11 Jan 2017Mothers of the Believers: The Wives of the Blessed Prophet ﷺ Why is the report that Aisha was six and nine so much better known than the others? The six-and-nine report became prominent as a by-product of hadith absolutism and the later sanctification of Bukhari and Muslim. Ordinary Muslims historically knew only that Aisha was young. Question source not recordedposition checkedSahih al-BukhariSahih MuslimImam MalikIbn al-Salah [?] machine7 min 53 s1:27:41on YouTube

3 Mar 2015video Is there such a thing as good bid'ah? Mufti Abu Layth frames the question of whether bid'ah divides into good and bad, defining it as innovation in religious matters, not worldly ones. Lessonbid'ah (innovation in religion) machine1 min 57 s0:01on YouTube

3 Mar 2015video What did Imam Malik say about bid'ah? Imam Malik rejected any 'good' bid'ah and called innovations misguidance, yet he often ruled a given innovation only discouraged (makruh), not haram. Lessonposition checkedImam MalikImam Ahmad ibn HanbalAbu Hanifaal-Shafi'i machine4 min 28 s1:58on YouTube

3 Mar 2015video Is making group dua after every salah a bid'ah? Group dua after every prayer is not from the Sunnah; the Hanafis and Shafi'is count such acts as recommended under general commands to do good, while the other side sees a new practice. Lessonposition checkedAbu Hanifaal-Shafi'ibid'ah (innovation in religion)mandub (recommended; mustahab) machine6 min 25 s6:26on YouTube

3 Mar 2015video Is it a bid'ah to pray extra prayers on a fixed day every week? Fixing a voluntary prayer to a day for convenience is commendable, but fixing it for a religious reason ritualises it, which the Malikis count as discouraged bid'ah. Lessonposition checkedbid'ah (innovation in religion)nafl (voluntary prayer)tahiyyat al-masjid (prayer on entering the mosque)istikhara machine10 min 56 s12:51on YouTube

3 Mar 2015video Do Maliki scholars accept good bid'ah? Both views exist: the early Maliki school rejected good bid'ah for centuries, but from around the 600s to 700s Hijri most Malikis accepted such practices while the books still list them as makruh. Lessonposition checkedbid'ah (innovation in religion)makruhthe plague (the Black Death) [?]the Almoravids (al-Murabitun) machine6 min 24 s23:47on YouTube

3 Mar 2015video Should I avoid practices that people call good bid'ah? Mufti Abu Layth holds it is safer to stick to the Sunnah as Medina understood it, but does not condemn those who follow good bid'ah, and asks for mutual respect. Lessonposition checkedImam Malikbid'ah (innovation in religion)makruhal-Qarafi machine4 min 18 s30:11on YouTube