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Cited in 23 segments across 13 recordings · 2016 to 2022 · term/term:nikah

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10 Dec 2022video LatestHow did Abu Hanifa solve the case of two brides sent to the wrong grooms? Where Sufyan al-Thawri advised divorces, a waiting period and remarriage to the original spouses, Abu Hanifa had each man marry on the spot the woman he had spent the night with, sparing a waiting period and jealousy. LessonAbu HanifaSufyan al-Thawrizifaf (the wedding night)nikah machine9 min 12 s32:42on YouTube
10 Dec 2022video LatestWhat is the story of the woman who tricked Abu Hanifa into a marriage proposal? Abu Hanifa died in 150 AH and is buried in Baghdad. In a story of uncertain accuracy, a woman tricked him into a marriage with a different bride to get him back for the clever reference he once gave a poor suitor. LessonAbu Hanifareport: the nikah with the least burden has the most barakahnikahhijab machine11 min 51 s56:24on YouTube
19 Jan 2021Monday Nights with Mufti Abu Layth What can I do if I can't afford to marry but want to avoid zina? Mufti Abu Layth has no easy answer: religion is failing people here because scholars and cultures will not discuss options, and marriage has become too costly for the young. Question from live chatposition checkedzinanikahmut'ah (temporary marriage) [?] machine7 min 31 s1:17:35on YouTube
22 Sep 2020Monday Nights with Mufti Abu Layth Can a Muslim woman marry a non-Muslim man? Mufti Abu Layth holds that such a nikah would be valid, though not meeting every condition, but advises couples to think hard because faith often becomes a conflict once children arrive. Question from live chatposition checkednikahbatil and fasid (void and defective contracts)Ahl al-Kitab (People of the Book)Majus (Zoroastrians) machine9 min 39 s1:05:38on YouTube
24 Aug 2020Monday Nights with Mufti Abu Layth Is my divorce automatic if my husband has been unreachable for over a year? It is not automatic: there are processes for a woman to obtain a divorce, and though they cost money, mosques will usually ask for proof of talaq before a new nikah. Question from live chatposition checkedkhul'talaqnikahAhmadiyya machine2 min 31 s22:32on YouTube
24 Aug 2020Monday Nights with Mufti Abu Layth Is a secret nikah allowed? A secret nikah that deceives the woman is exploitation he condemns, but a low-commitment marriage both adults openly agree to is, he says, permissible. Question from live chatposition checkednikahmut'ahIbn Azraq [?] machine3 min 51 s2:23:11on YouTube
26 Jun 2020MindTrap with Mufti Abu Layth Does the Quran ban slavery, and what does 'what your right hand possesses' mean? The guest says the Quran abolishes slavery as the greatest crime, since owning a slave is to claim to be a rabb like Pharaoh, and that what the right hand possesses means contractual marriage. Mufti Abu Layth holds that slavery is abrogated through trajectory hermeneutics rather than by an explicit ban. Discussionguest speechEdip Yukseltrajectory hermeneuticsrabbabd machine10 min 29 s1:08:39on YouTube
19 Apr 2020MindTrap with Mufti Abu Layth Can a past relationship or an accidental touch make my spouse haram for me? Mufti Abu Layth says Hanafi fatwas of hurmat al-musahara that dissolve marriages over a premarital relationship with an in-law or an accidental touch destroy families, and that the Maliki school does not hold the ruling. Discussionguest speechShaykh Kashif Khan (guest)hurmat al-musahara (prohibition through marriage relations)JuhaMaliki school machine6 min 30 s1:07:01on YouTube
19 Apr 2020MindTrap with Mufti Abu Layth Is a marriage between a Muslim and a non-Muslim valid? Mufti Abu Layth says he holds that a nikah between a Muslim and a non-Muslim would be valid, especially for converts whose spouses remain non-Muslim; both say quoting recorded minority views gets them accused of opening Pandora's box. Discussionguest speechShaykh Kashif Khan (guest)nikahbatil and fasid (void and defective contracts)Imam Malik machine5 min 13 s1:23:10on YouTube
2 Aug 2019From the Mind of a Mufti How did classical scholars treat intersex people (khuntha) and their right to marry? Classical scholars ruled that a khuntha, an intersex person, can neither marry nor be married, which Mufti Abu Layth calls cruel, absurd and a failure of scholarship to give a truly Islamic answer. Lessonposition checkedkhuntha (hermaphrodite, intersex person)nikahSharia machine6 min 30 s5:12on YouTube
10 May 2019video I converted to Islam but my husband didn't. Do I have to leave him? No: he agrees with scholars such as Abdullah bin Bayyah that a convert wife may stay with her non-Muslim husband, and vice versa. Telling converts to leave their spouses is home-wrecking. Question raised by Mufti Abu Laythposition checkedShaykh Abdullah bin BayyahHamza YusufAbdullah al-Judai [?]Yusuf al-Qaradawi [?] (name garbled in the transcript) machine5 min 09 s1:18on YouTube
10 May 2019video What does the word nikah actually mean? Linguistically nikah means sex; technically it is the marriage contract, a relationship of exclusivity with mutual rights. Lessonposition checkednikah machine3 min 48 s5:09on YouTube
10 May 2019video Do converts have to redo their marriage after becoming Muslim? No: a non-Muslim marriage valid by its own rules is valid in Islam, and converts were never asked to repeat their nikah. The Prophet's daughter Zaynab and her husband are an example. Lessonposition checkednikahmahral-Sarakhsi [?]Maliki school machine6 min 28 s8:57on YouTube
10 May 2019video Did Islam invent marriage? No: Aisha's hadith lists four kinds of pre-Islamic marriage, and the ordinary one of proposal and acceptance continued with Islam's approval. Lessonposition checkedSahih al-Bukhari 5127 (Aisha: marriage in the Jahiliyyah was of four kinds)Aishajahiliyyanikah machine4 min 59 s15:25on YouTube
10 May 2019video Is a marriage between a Muslim and a non-Muslim valid? Yes, it would be valid, but it is discouraged: Islam strongly encourages marrying within the faith so children are not raised amid conflict. Validity is not the same as being a good choice. Lessonposition checkednikahUmar ibn al-Khattab machine6 min 33 s40:48on YouTube
5 Mar 2018On Love, Romance, and Relationships Does an exclusive boyfriend-girlfriend relationship count as a nikah? Mufti Abu Layth does not endorse the idea but calls it a good question that the ulama should discuss. He says the past had simple marriage, unstigmatised divorce and other accepted outlets, whereas Muslims today have only a culturally dramatised, expensive nikah. Question source not recordedposition checkednikahulama machine2 min 37 s10:25on YouTube
5 Mar 2018On Love, Romance, and Relationships Should I register my nikah as a civil marriage? Mufti Abu Layth is not sure civil registration is the answer, because he objects to needing the state's permission to leave a relationship. He accepts the financial arguments on both sides, the man's fear of losing half his property and the woman's risk of being left with nothing. Lessonposition checkednikahulama machine5 min 08 s15:37on YouTube
28 Feb 2018Responding to Refutations Are witnesses required for a nikah in the Maliki school? In the Maliki school witnesses are not needed for the nikah to be valid; witnesses or an announcement are needed before consummation. Hamza Maqbool's tweet said Mufti Abu Layth does not represent the school. Lessonposition checkedHamza MaqboolHamza YusufAli ibn Abi TalibLawrence of Arabia machine3 min 54 s5:06on YouTube
28 Feb 2018Responding to Refutations What do the classical Maliki books say about witnesses in a marriage? The Maliki authorities he reads hold that a marriage without witnesses is valid unless it is meant to be secret; witnesses or an announcement are required before consummation. Lessonposition checkedal-Kafi fi Fiqh Ahl al-MadinaIbn Abd al-Barral-Jami of Ibn Yunus [?]Abu Bakr ibn Yunus al-Siqilli machine9 min 11 s9:00on YouTube
21 Feb 2018On the Prophet Muhammad ﷺ Where did Safiyya live when she first came to Madinah? She did not live with the Prophet but was lodged with Umm Sulaym and others, and the Prophet rebuked Aisha and others who called her 'that Jew'. The feast on the road was a victory meal, not a wedding, and she embraced Islam in the months that followed. Lessonposition checkedSafiyyaAnas ibn MalikUmm Sulaym [?]Aisha machine2 min 38 s29:57on YouTube
11 Jan 2017Mothers of the Believers: The Wives of the Blessed Prophet ﷺ The ramifications: jurists on marrying a minor, and the conclusion Aisha was in her late teens, most likely eighteen or nineteen, Mufti Abu Layth concludes. Jurists from early on held marriage impermissible with a girl incapable of it, and the Ottomans set a minimum age of fifteen. Lessonposition checkedImam Malikal-Shafi'i [?]al-Albanial-Dawudi [?] machine11 min 49 s1:02:49on YouTube
11 Jan 2017Mothers of the Believers: The Wives of the Blessed Prophet ﷺ Why did jurists like Imam Malik let a father marry off his young daughter without her consent? Marrying off an underage girl is impermissible today. Imam Malik's exception was a contract only, without intimacy, tied to welfare in his own circumstances and not based on a clear verse or report. Question source not recordedposition checkedImam Malikal-Shafi'i [?]trajectory hermeneuticsnikah machine9 min 07 s2:00:23on YouTube
21 Dec 2016video Abu Hanifa and Sufyan al-Thawri on the swapped brides of Kufa Abu Hanifa's creative answer to two brides sent to the wrong grooms, outshining Sufyan al-Thawri's ruling, shows the scholars were never dull. LessonAbu HanifaSufyan al-Thawri'iddah (waiting period)ijtihad machine9 min 32 s45:14on YouTube