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Cited in 21 segments across 13 recordings · 2018 to 2021 · term/term:wahhabi

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6 Apr 2021Monday Nights with Mufti Abu Layth A critic's reaction video: the Wahhabi jibe and the setup Mufti Abu Layth introduces a critic's reaction video that he says distorts his views, and trades jokes about the label Wahhabi. Otherguest speechWahhabiMuhammad ibn Abd al-Wahhab machine4 min 08 s3:06:48on YouTube
6 Apr 2021Monday Nights with Mufti Abu Layth Donors, deathbed remarks and 'no hatred': an invitation to the critic Mufti Abu Layth says he dislikes his critics' conduct but has no hatred for them, and invites the critic to a dialogue on MindTrap. Otherguest speechWahhabi machine7 min 44 s3:45:06on YouTube
16 Feb 2021Monday Nights with Mufti Abu Layth Chat remarks: an unclear music question and a jibe about his earring Mufti Abu Layth skips a music question he cannot make sense of and laughs off a jibe that his earring and necklace make him look like a woman. OtherWahhabi machine2 min 44 s37:10on YouTube
9 Feb 2021Monday Nights with Mufti Abu Layth Was al-Ghazali against science and philosophy? Mufti Abu Layth says al-Ghazali was not against reason at first, but after a crisis of faith he turned to ascetic mysticism, and through later Sufism this indirectly harmed the voice of reason. Question from live chatposition checkedal-Ghazalial-Munqidh min al-Dalal (Deliverance from Error)Qadi Abu Bakr ibn al-Arabi [?]hikmah (wisdom) machine12 min 41 s34:23on YouTube
12 Jan 2021Monday Nights with Mufti Abu Layth Has the Salafi movement done more good or harm? Mufti Abu Layth says the Salafi dawah revived interest in hadith and forced a re-evaluation, but its dislodging of the tradition did far more damage overall. Lessonposition checkedSalafiWahhabifiqh machine2 min 28 s32:40on YouTube
12 Jan 2021Monday Nights with Mufti Abu Layth Has Islam become more polarised between puritans and liberals? Yes, he says Islam is far more polarised today than historically, but he is optimistic it is a fever through which a more natural Islam can return. Question from live chatposition checkedfatwaAbu YusufSalafiWahhabi machine4 min 10 s35:37on YouTube
12 Jan 2021Monday Nights with Mufti Abu Layth Will you critique Sahih Muslim like you did al-Bukhari? Mufti Abu Layth chose al-Bukhari, not Muslim or others, because it is the symbol of the Salafi-Wahhabi legacy; that is the fortress he wanted to take on. Question from live chatposition checkedSahih al-BukhariSahih MuslimSunan Abi DawudSalafi machine1 min 58 s1:13:41on YouTube
5 Jan 2021video Is the niqab required, and is it right to make women take it off? The face veil has no basis in the Quran and Sunnah, being the opinion of some later scholars. Forcing a woman to remove it is still wrong; one may only advise. Discussionposition checkedniqab (face veil)WahhabiHanafi schoolMaliki school machine6 min 31 s0:19on YouTube
22 Sep 2020Monday Nights with Mufti Abu Layth Who were the Murji'a and why do Salafis talk about them so much? Mufti Abu Layth says Salafis fixate on long-extinct sects because they read Ibn Taymiyya, whom he sees as a troubled man with mental health issues whom they all but worship. Question from live chatposition checkedMurji'aSalafiIbn TaymiyyaWahhabi machine6 min 25 s1:18:25on YouTube
22 Sep 2020Monday Nights with Mufti Abu Layth Are Sharia rules brand new, or based on what people already did? Mufti Abu Layth says the Shari'ah did not bring otherworldly rules but took existing practices and set limits on them, like kintsugi mending pottery. Lessonposition checkedShari'ahmaqasid al-shari'ahSalafiWahhabi machine5 min 41 s1:36:57on YouTube
24 Aug 2020Monday Nights with Mufti Abu Layth Is the hadith that Aisha was married at six authentic? Mufti Abu Layth holds the hadith on Aisha's young age to be fabricated, since every transmitter is Iraqi, and says sectarian scholars defend it out of loyalty to their teachers. Lessonposition checkedAishareport: the prophet married aisha at six and consummated the marriage at nineHisham ibn UrwaSalafi machine5 min 44 s1:17:12on YouTube
3 Nov 2019Responding to Refutations What did Yasir Qadhi say about Mufti Abu Layth on the Mad Mamluks podcast? Mufti Abu Layth says Qadhi, trying to reassert his traditional credentials on a podcast, said people like Mufti should declare themselves Mu'tazila rather than Sunni. LessonYasir Qadhithe Mad Mamluks podcast [?]Mu'tazilaMaryam (Mary) machine5 min 42 s16:47on YouTube
3 Nov 2019Responding to Refutations Do most Sunnis consider Wahhabis and Salafis to be Sunni? Mufti Abu Layth says it is ironic for a Wahhabi to expel others from Sunni Islam, since most Sunnis do not count Wahhabis as Sunni, while he himself is among the few who do. Lessonposition checkedYasir QadhiWahhabiSalafiSunni machine3 min 04 s22:29on YouTube
3 Nov 2019Responding to Refutations Did the Salafi movement play a part in producing modern extremism? Mufti Abu Layth says Salafis now oppose terrorism but their movement helped produce it, from the 1970s Salafi group to the 1979 Kaaba seizure, and that Qadhi's teachers belonged to that past. Lessonposition checkedYasir QadhiIbn Bazal-Albani [?]Muqbil al-Wadi'i [?] machine6 min 20 s40:39on YouTube
19 Sep 2019Responding to Refutations Are the hadith about Aisha's young age authentic? Mufti Abu Layth says every chain for Aisha's young age is flawed, resting on narrators accused of tadlis and all going back to Urwa. Those who defend them put al-Bukhari's sanctity above the Prophet's honour. Discussionposition checkedAishaWahhabiDeobandiSahih al-Bukhari machine6 min 10 s6:57on YouTube
19 Sep 2019Responding to Refutations Islamic institutes, preachers' depth of learning, and passionate converts Mufti Abu Layth says the preacher was, he believes, referring to the Yaqeen Institute, and that if this is what they promote they need to revisit themselves. He says he respects and applauds Omar Suleiman's social justice work and protests for discriminated communities, but says such preachers have not really studied Islam in depth or qualified through a formal institute, are put on a pedestal by the institution and must then cement it, and were mostly very Wahhabi-inclined at one point. He says Asadullah al-Andalusi [?] once held ridiculous views about killing ex-Muslims and apostates, which he thinks he has since turned away from. He applauds converts for a step he thinks few born Muslims would take, mentioning Hamza Yusuf as one who studied deeply and to whom many are indebted, while noting that some converts with turbulent backgrounds embrace Islam as a cause. DiscussionYaqeen InstituteOmar SuleimanWahhabiAsadullah al-Andalusi [?] machine3 min 15 s13:07on YouTube
4 Aug 2019From the Mind of a Mufti Mohammed Hijab's liberalism lecture argues like a sectarian polemic Mufti Abu Layth turns to a university lecture by Mohammed Hijab on liberalism, which people had sent him and which claimed liberalism is baseless. He says the lecture seemed aimed at a Muslim audience and that, since Mohammed Hijab is intelligent, he is unsure whether he has not grasped the concept or is deliberately arguing to win points, but calls it a very poor job. He explains that the lecture argues against liberalism the way Muslims conduct sectarian debates: finding a figure the opponent supposedly reveres, such as Abu Hanifa, Ibn Taymiyya, Imam Malik or a Shia ayatollah, and quoting him to corner the opponent through compelling authority. He says this tactic makes no sense outside religion, where people do not feel bound by allegiance to such figures. DiscussionMohammed HijabShiaSufiHanafi school machine6 min 24 s0:00on 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
4 May 2019On Current Events Is it better for women to pray at home than in the mosque? No: sahih hadith show women regularly praying in the Prophet's mosque, the Prophet forbade stopping them, and Umar and Ali provided imams for them. Lessonposition checkedreport: prayer in this mosque of mine is better than a thousand prayers elsewhere except al-masjid al-haramreport: the women would leave the fajr prayer and could not be recognised because of the darkness (cited as in al-Bukhari, number not stated)report: do not prevent the female servants of allah from the mosques of allahreport: if the prophet had seen what the women do now he would have prevented them from the mosque (Aisha) machine8 min 09 s15:11on YouTube
31 Aug 2018From the Mind of a Mufti An imam faking his tarawih recitation: a memory from Mufti Abu Layth's hifz days A personal story: as a teenager memorising the Quran, Mufti Abu Layth caught a village imam faking his tarawih recitation and told him privately that misleading people with the Quran was wrong. Otherhifztarawihjuz'Wahhabi machine13 min 18 s0:00on YouTube
8 Jul 2018Responding to Refutations Is it haram to pressure a wife into sex by saying God will be angry? Yes: marital rape is categorically haram, and so is religious blackmail, using God's anger to get sex. He reads the hadith of the angels cursing a refusing wife as justifying that. Discussionposition checkedSunni Defence (YouTube channel)report: if a woman refuses her husband's bed the angels curse herWahhabiharam machine4 min 25 s0:00on YouTube