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Cited in 9 segments across 6 recordings · 2018 to 2022 · term/term:isnad
Citing segments
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19 Aug 2022video
Why did Ibn Hajar say the satanic verses story has some basis?
Mufti Abu Layth says Ibn Hajar wrongly argued that the many weak chains give the story a basis, and attributes the mistake to passion for the hadith project rather than malice.
machine7 min 49 s1:18:40on YouTube
19 Aug 2022video
Recap: the novel, insult versus critique, and the false story summarised
Mufti Abu Layth recaps that Rushdie's novel was an insult rather than a critique and that the satanic verses story is a fabrication rejected by al-Tabari, Ibn Khuzayma and Qadi Iyad, recommending al-Shifa and al-Albani's book.
machine6 min 09 s1:52:45on YouTube
4 Aug 2020Monday Nights with Mufti Abu Layth
Why did Imam Malik prefer the practice of Medina over hadith chains?
Mufti Abu Layth says the chain was once subordinate to the living tradition of Medina; al-Shafii's isnad project replaced regional trust with loyalty to the chain.
machine10 min 15 s2:04:25on YouTube
4 Aug 2020Monday Nights with Mufti Abu Layth
How did hadith scholars know narrators who died a century earlier were reliable?
Mufti Abu Layth says later hadith critics never disclosed how they knew long-dead narrators were reliable, leaving gaps in an impressive system.
machine6 min 29 s2:13:00on YouTube
19 Jun 2020MindTrap with Mufti Abu Layth
Do the early manuscripts with different words undermine the preservation of the Quran?
The guest says such manuscripts were bound to exist once people wrote down the readings, and that a reading needs correct Arabic and a chain to the Prophet, with ijtihad only in preference. Mufti Abu Layth adds that the harshest critics of the readings were Muslim grammarians of Basra such as al-Mazini, until later grammarians like Ibn Malik embraced them.
machine6 min 30 s1:10:45on YouTube
19 Jun 2020MindTrap with Mufti Abu Layth
Does a reciter's chain of teachers back to the Prophet prove the Quran's text?
A single chain of huffaz only testifies who taught whom and does not authenticate the text on its own; preservation rests on the vast number of people transmitting the same thing, of which one chain is a drop in the ocean.
machine1 min 06 s1:36:25on YouTube
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.
machine10 min 59 s12:47on YouTube
20 Sep 2018Clarifying False Hadith Which Insult Islam
What is the war-wager hadith paradox?
Mufti Abu Layth presents the report that the Prophet was commanded to fight people until they believe, which hadith dogmatists call mutawatir, and notes that the same scholars agree no one may be fought merely for disbelief or compelled into Islam.
machine7 min 54 s0:00on YouTube
1 Apr 2018Islamic Eschatology
Is the second coming of Jesus proven by the Quran or by the fact that most Muslims believe it?
The second coming cannot be proven from the Quran, as Hassan Ali concedes, and the fact that most Muslims believe it only reflects what they were taught as children, as with folk tales of Ya'juj and Ma'juj. The hadith on it have chain problems and, more importantly, details that clash with Islam.
machine3 min 54 s1:19on YouTube