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riddah (apostasy)

Cited in 4 segments across 4 recordings · 2018 to 2021 · term/term:riddah

Citing segments

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16 Feb 2021Monday Nights with Mufti Abu Layth Did the Prophet order a scribe killed for leaving Islam? Not for apostasy, he says: the scribe was not executed, and the issue was treason, since he exposed Madinah's weak points to its enemies; apostasy laws were treason laws. Question from live chatposition checkedAbdullah ibn Sa'd ibn Abi Sarh [?]the Battle of the Trench (al-Ahzab)riddah (apostasy) machine2 min 33 s1:11:59on YouTube
29 Jan 2021MindTrap with Mufti Abu Layth Did the early Hanafis hold that apostates should be killed? The guest says the early Hanafi view, from Abu Hanifa and Zufar, is that apostasy itself carries no punishment and only an actual threat is punished; Mufti Abu Layth calls today's Hanafi blasphemy laws upside down. Discussionguest speechShaykh Atabek Shukurov (guest)Abu HanifaImam Muhammad (al-Shaybani)Zufar machine1 min 55 s1:11:43on YouTube
4 Aug 2019From the Mind of a Mufti Is capital punishment, including for apostasy, justified? Mufti Abu Layth opposes capital punishment as absurd, killing to stop killing, and calls justifying death for apostasy as treason a stupid argument. He welcomes Mohammed Hijab's apparent move away from the classical ruling to kill apostates. Discussionposition checkedMohammed Hijabriddah (apostasy)SalafiWahhabi machine7 min 25 s29:52on YouTube
10 May 2018Ponderings on the Holy Quran Does Islam punish someone for leaving the faith? Islam gives freedom of belief: the Quran says there is no compulsion in religion and leaves belief to choice, and neither the Quran nor the established Sunnah says an apostate must be killed. Lessonposition checkedQuran 2:256 (there is no compulsion in religion)Quran 18:29 (whoever wishes, let him believe, and whoever wishes, let him disbelieve)Quran 10:99 (would you compel people to become believers?)Quran 109:1-6 (Surah al-Kafirun: to you your religion and to me mine) machine5 min 16 s0:00on YouTube