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Cited in 10 segments across 8 recordings · 2016 to 2022 · term/term:khamr

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10 Dec 2022video What did Abu Hanifa do about his neighbour who drank and sang at night? Rather than punishing his drunken, noisy neighbour, Abu Hanifa had him released from custody and asked whether he had let him go to waste, a kindness that transformed the man's life. Lessonposition checkedAbu Hanifaalcohol (khamr) machine10 min 35 s45:49on YouTube
5 Mar 2021video What counts as khamr, and is a drink with very little alcohol haram? In the Quran khamr is wine; other drinks are haram if they intoxicate similarly, but a drink so weak that normal consumption does not intoxicate is not haram. This was Abu Hanifa's ruling, for which the Hanafi school was attacked for centuries until later Hanafis grew embarrassed by it. Question source not recordedposition checkedkhamrAbu HanifaHanafi schoolharam machine3 min 59 s0:00on YouTube
9 Feb 2021Monday Nights with Mufti Abu Layth What counts as khamr, and is a drink with a little alcohol haram? Mufti Abu Layth says khamr in the Quran meant wine; other drinks were haram only when they intoxicated like it, which was Abu Hanifa's position. Question from live chatposition checkedalcohol (khamr)Abu HanifaImam MalikMaliki school machine6 min 09 s24:29on YouTube
29 Jan 2021MindTrap with Mufti Abu Layth Did Abu Hanifa allow drinks with a little alcohol? The guest says Abu Hanifa's ruling that mildly fermented non-wine drinks are not haram shows he followed the Quran over reports; Mufti Abu Layth says the lesson is his way of thinking. Discussionguest speechShaykh Atabek Shukurov (guest)Abu Hanifakhamrnabidh machine3 min 24 s1:13:24on YouTube
4 Aug 2020Monday Nights with Mufti Abu Layth Is it haram to sit at a table where people are drinking alcohol? Mufti Abu Layth says it is not a sin to sit at a table where alcohol is served; the hadith was part of a gradual move away from alcohol. Question from live chatposition checkedalcohol (khamr)report: do not sit at a table where wine is servedImam MalikAhmad ibn Hanbal machine3 min 36 s16:58on YouTube
4 Aug 2020Monday Nights with Mufti Abu Layth Do the Hanafis allow beer? Mufti Abu Layth says the classical Hanafis restricted khamr to grape and date wine, and today's Deobandis do not reflect Abu Hanifa. Question from live chatposition checkedalcohol (khamr)nabidhAbu HanifaDeobandi machine3 min 16 s2:23:48on YouTube
14 Jul 2020live stream Can I wear perfume that contains alcohol? It is pure and nothing to worry about: alcohol is not impure for many scholars of Madinah, and perfume alcohol is not the drinking kind anyway. Question from live chatposition checkednajasa (impurity)alcohol (khamr)Rabi'a al-Ra'yImam Malik machine1 min 56 s1:50:34on YouTube
14 Jul 2020live stream Was Sudan right to drop its alcohol and apostasy laws and end flogging? Mufti Abu Layth welcomes Sudan's reforms: flogging today only damages Islam's message, FGM should be outlawed, and alcohol was never prohibited for non-Muslims. Lessonposition checkedSudan's legal reforms (2020)female genital mutilationalcohol (khamr)Ibn Ashur machine2 min 28 s2:08:00on YouTube
24 May 2019Hadith Studies If I drank alcohol, are my prayers and fasts rejected for 40 days? No: the fast and prayer are valid. He calls the forty-days hadith an isolated, weak report that clashes with the Quran and reason, though alcohol stays haram. Question source not recordedposition checkedreport: man shariba al-khamr lam tuqbal lahu salat arbain sabahanalcohol (khamr)khabar al-ahad (isolated reports)Sunan Ibn Majah machine10 min 57 s0:38on YouTube
21 Dec 2016video How can I help someone stop drinking without pushing them away? Drinking is unacceptable, but like any addiction it needs wisdom: offer an alternative and help with the person's problems, as Abu Hanifa did with his drinking neighbour. Question written questionposition checkedalcohol (khamr)Abu Hanifareport: whoever of you sees an evil let him change it with his handal-amr bil-ma'ruf wa al-nahy an al-munkar (commanding good and forbidding evil) machine10 min 20 s1:03:05on YouTube