Early version. Transcripts and tags are labelled by accuracy tier. A position is shown only after two independent reviews have found it in his own words.
Mufti Abu Layth ArchiveBeta
Subscribe on YouTube Support on Patreon

Sources and names › Term › ilm al-rijal (narrator criticism, jarh wa ta'dil)

Term

ilm al-rijal (narrator criticism, jarh wa ta'dil)

Cited in 4 segments across 4 recordings · 2018 to 2020 · term/term:jarh-wa-tadil

Citing segments

Newest first. Each opens the whole segment, not a bare quote.
9 Oct 2020video If a reliable narrator reports from someone, does that make the source reliable? Mufti Abu Layth reports from a classical text that a narrator transmitting from someone does not make that person reliable. Lessonquoted view, not his positionAhmad ibn HanbalMusnad Ahmadjarh wa ta'dil (narrator criticism) machine1 min 45 s4:13on 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. Lessonposition checkedisnadjarh wa tadilal-AmashQatada machine6 min 29 s2:13:00on YouTube
4 May 2018Clarifying False Hadith Which Insult Islam Is the hadith about women wearing perfume being zaniya authentic? Mufti Abu Layth says the report is not authentic: every version comes through one weak narrator, Thabit ibn Umara, from the obscure Ghunaym ibn Qays, and some early authorities stopped it at the companion. Lessonposition checkedreport: ayyuma imraatin istatarat fa marrat ala qawmin li yajidu rihaha fa hiya zaniyareport: antum al-yawm ala iddati ashabi talut (Abu Musa, via Ghunaym, in Ahmad)Abu Musa al-Ash'ariGhunaym ibn Qays machine7 min 53 s2:39on YouTube
21 Feb 2018Responding to Refutations How does he view the Salafi movement, and is hadith narrator criticism a divine science? The Salafi movement began as a courageous rejection of tradition but, once established, became as dogmatic as what it opposed. Narrator criticism is a human science, so it is always open to revision and disagreement. Lessonposition checkedSalafi movementHanbali creedAsh'ari and Maturidi creedIbn Hajar machine3 min 54 s10:29on YouTube