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Cited in 13 segments across 12 recordings · 2015 to 2021 · term/term:fiqh

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25 Oct 2021video Should I debate Quranists? No: arguing never changes anyone's mind and only breeds hatred, so give your view if asked and see Quranists with compassion. He finds their case weaker than they think, since fiqh was built on the living tradition, not on hadith. Lessonposition checkedQuranist (Quran-only)Imam Malikreport: the prophet stood for the funeral of a jewish woman and said is it not a soul (as told by the host; unresolved)Salafi machine5 min 45 s7:07on YouTube
6 Apr 2021Monday Nights with Mufti Abu Layth Is forex trading halal or haram? Mufti Abu Layth refers the question to his earlier videos and says inherited fiqh is so out of date that much of it can no longer be applied. Question from live chatposition checkedthe Wall Street battle between hedge funds and Reddit traders (2021)fiqh machine2 min 06 s21:11on YouTube
2 Feb 2021Monday Nights with Mufti Abu Layth Is trading stocks, crypto or on margin halal? Mufti Abu Layth believes modern trading, including crypto and margin trading, is permissible with sensible risk management; risk was never the reason for a ban. Lessonposition checkedribagambling (maysir)fiqh machine8 min 23 s2:28:10on YouTube
19 Jan 2021Monday Nights with Mufti Abu Layth How do I find the true Sunnah in the hadith books? The true Sunnah does not clash with reason, the Quran or Islamic principles, Mufti Abu Layth says, and the safer way is to take it from fiqh. Question from live chatposition checkedsunnahfiqh machine1 min 09 s1:33:27on YouTube
12 Jan 2021Monday Nights with Mufti Abu Layth Has the Salafi movement done more good or harm? Mufti Abu Layth says the Salafi dawah revived interest in hadith and forced a re-evaluation, but its dislodging of the tradition did far more damage overall. Lessonposition checkedSalafiWahhabifiqh machine2 min 28 s32:40on YouTube
12 Jan 2021Monday Nights with Mufti Abu Layth What does Islamic law say about the harms of social media? Mufti Abu Layth agrees fiqh is out of sync with problems like social media's harms and needs updating. Question written questionposition checkedfiqh machine1 min 17 s2:51:22on YouTube
11 Dec 2020MindTrap with Mufti Abu Layth Does the Quran treat every human life as sacred, even in war? The guest says the Quran holds every human soul sacred, which classical exegetes on jihad missed; Mufti Abu Layth says Muslim scholarship must shift from outdated fiqh to ethics. Discussionguest speechDr Javad T. Hashmi (guest)jihadDar al-Harbdhimmi machine3 min 27 s1:52:45on YouTube
26 Jun 2020MindTrap with Mufti Abu Layth Can hadith be sifted with criteria, or must the whole corpus be rejected? Mufti Abu Layth says the Prophet's practice survives as a living tradition in fiqh and that he accepts a hadith only if it passes reason, the texts and the principles. The guest replies that narrators who fabricated a stoning verse forfeit all credibility, like a false witness in the Quran. Discussionguest speechEdip Yuksela hadith must not contradict reason, the transmitted texts or the established principlesThe deen reaches us through continuous living practiceQuran 24:4 (those who accuse chaste women without four witnesses) machine3 min 53 s48:57on YouTube
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. Discussionquoted view, not his positionguest speechShaykh Kashif Khan (guest)Ahl al-Hadithfiqh'awrah (nakedness of the dead) machine3 min 57 s25:17on YouTube
2 Aug 2019From the Mind of a Mufti Why does Islam forbid homosexual activity? Islam did not address homosexuality directly; it outlawed all sex outside marriage to build strong family units, and homosexuality was prohibited as a by-product. There are no clear sahih hadith on it, and scholars differed on related questions such as anal sex. Question source not recordedposition checkedImam Malikfiqhsahihharam machine5 min 11 s0:01on YouTube
22 Mar 2019The School of Madinah What is fiqh, and is it the same as Shari'ah? Fiqh is our understanding of what is expected of us towards God and towards people. It overlaps with Shari'ah, which people usually keep for the legal side, and it has different ways of deriving rulings. Question source not recordedposition checkedfiqhShari'ahMaliki school machine2 min 35 s0:00on YouTube
21 Jul 2018From the Mind of a Mufti Is mut'ah a matter of belief that divides Sunnis and Shia? No: accepting temporary marriage or not is a question of fiqh, not belief, so Sunnis are unfair to attack the Shia over mut'ah. Lessonposition checkedmut'ah (temporary marriage)ShiaSunnifiqh machine3 min 15 s0:00on YouTube
6 Apr 2015video LatestWhat is Mufti Abu Layth currently teaching? An online fiqh course on the Risalah of Ibn Abi Zayd, al-Ashmawiyyah, a completed reading of Qadi Iyad's Foundations of Islam and a sirah series, with hadith categorisation, an Andalusi poem in hadith terms and a Maliki retreat planned. He believes the school of Madinah would make the deen a way of life for Muslims in the West. Question written questionposition checkedfiqhal-RisalahIbn Abi Zayd al-Qayrawanial-Ashmawiyyah machine5 min 18 s49:46on YouTube