Mufti Abu Layth Archive: Islamic Eschatology

Are the descriptions of paradise in the Quran meant literally?

Mon, 02 Jul 2018 00:00:00 +0000

Are the descriptions of paradise in the Quran meant literally?

The afterlife is real, but he believes the Quran's imagery of paradise was an encouragement suited to its first audience rather than a literal description. Anyone who takes it literally is free to do so. Mufti Abu Layth says the afterlife itself is literal but he does not personally believe the Quran's imagery of paradise is, thinking it was just an encouragement.

Answer from 2 July 2018 · auto-transcribed, may contain errors

Kind: general teaching

Recording: Jannah & Jahannum: Their Reality Between Literalism and Symbolism -Mufti Abu Layth (at 0:00)

A more recent answer on quran/hermeneutics exists (18 October 2025): Does 3:188 mean everyone who likes praise will be punished?

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Calling it a misquotation is poor scholarship

Tue, 29 May 2018 00:00:00 +0000

Calling it a misquotation is poor scholarship

Mufti Abu Layth says the misquotation charge reflects weak Arabic or a fixed mindset, and that scholars he consulted confirmed his reading of Ibn Ashur.

Answer from 29 May 2018 · auto-transcribed, may contain errors

Recording: What is the Beast of the Earth? What did Ibn Aashour really say? -Mufti Abu Layth (at 19:25)

A more recent answer on dialogue/responses-to-critics exists (6 April 2021): Donors, deathbed remarks and 'no hatred': an invitation to the critic

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Ibn Ashur: the creature speaks to the deniers at the gathering

Tue, 29 May 2018 00:00:00 +0000

Ibn Ashur: the creature speaks to the deniers at the gathering

In Ibn Ashur's reading, as Mufti Abu Layth presents it, the creature speaks at the gathering on the Day of Judgment to shame the Quraysh who denied the Prophet.

Answer from 29 May 2018 · auto-transcribed, may contain errors

Kind: quoted view (stated in order to be discussed, not necessarily held)

Recording: What is the Beast of the Earth? What did Ibn Aashour really say? -Mufti Abu Layth (at 15:30)

A more recent answer on quran/tafsir/contested-verses exists (19 August 2022): Is Quran 22:52 about the satanic verses incident?

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Does Ibn Ashur say the beast comes before the Day of Judgment?

Tue, 29 May 2018 00:00:00 +0000

Does Ibn Ashur say the beast comes before the Day of Judgment?

Mufti Abu Layth reads Ibn Ashur as treating the time from the world's end to the resurrection as one realm, not as placing the beast before the Day of Judgment. Mufti Abu Layth says that, in his understanding, Ibn Ashur's remark about nearness does not mean the creature emerges close to the Day of Judgment rather than on it.

Answer from 29 May 2018 · auto-transcribed, may contain errors

Kind: general teaching

Recording: What is the Beast of the Earth? What did Ibn Aashour really say? -Mufti Abu Layth (at 10:59)

A more recent answer on quran/tafsir/contested-verses exists (19 August 2022): Is Quran 22:52 about the satanic verses incident?

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Do the signs of the Hour have to come before the Hour?

Tue, 29 May 2018 00:00:00 +0000

Do the signs of the Hour have to come before the Hour?

Not necessarily: Mufti Abu Layth accepts the view that the signs can occur with the Hour itself, as the world ends and a timeless realm begins. Mufti Abu Layth accepts as a valid difference of opinion the view that the signs of the Hour can occur together with the Hour itself.

Answer from 29 May 2018 · auto-transcribed, may contain errors

Kind: general teaching

Recording: What is the Beast of the Earth? What did Ibn Aashour really say? -Mufti Abu Layth (at 9:41)

A more recent answer on belief/eschatology/dajjal-mahdi-and-signs exists (6 April 2021): Are the signs of the Hour part of Islamic creed?

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Will a beast really appear at the end of times?

Tue, 29 May 2018 00:00:00 +0000

Will a beast really appear at the end of times?

Mufti Abu Layth says a literal beast raises questions nobody can answer, and that end-times reports are information to take with a pinch of salt, not literal events. Mufti Abu Layth says everything to do with the end of times is Islamic information to be taken with a pinch of salt, not as literal events.

Answer from 29 May 2018 · auto-transcribed, may contain errors

Kind: general teaching

Recording: What is the Beast of the Earth? What did Ibn Aashour really say? -Mufti Abu Layth (at 7:05)

A more recent answer on belief/eschatology/dajjal-mahdi-and-signs exists (6 April 2021): Are the signs of the Hour part of Islamic creed?

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What does the Quran say about the beast of the earth?

Tue, 29 May 2018 00:00:00 +0000

What does the Quran say about the beast of the earth?

Mufti Abu Layth reads 27:80-84 as moving from the grave to the Day of Judgment, with the creature of verse 82 set within that sequence. Mufti Abu Layth says verses 83 and 84 of Surah al-Naml are clearly speaking about the Day of Judgment.

Answer from 29 May 2018 · auto-transcribed, may contain errors

Kind: general teaching

Recording: What is the Beast of the Earth? What did Ibn Aashour really say? -Mufti Abu Layth (at 3:55)

A more recent answer on quran/tafsir/contested-verses exists (19 August 2022): Is Quran 22:52 about the satanic verses incident?

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Accused of misquoting Ibn Ashur on the beast of the earth

Tue, 29 May 2018 00:00:00 +0000

Accused of misquoting Ibn Ashur on the beast of the earth

Mufti Abu Layth says a scholar who accused him of misquoting Ibn Ashur accepted, after a civil discussion, that he had not, even while still disagreeing.

Answer from 29 May 2018 · auto-transcribed, may contain errors

Recording: What is the Beast of the Earth? What did Ibn Aashour really say? -Mufti Abu Layth (at 0:01)

A more recent answer on dialogue/responses-to-critics exists (6 April 2021): Donors, deathbed remarks and 'no hatred': an invitation to the critic

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Does the Dajjal (Antichrist) exist in Islam?

Mon, 09 Apr 2018 00:00:00 +0000

Does the Dajjal (Antichrist) exist in Islam?

No: the Dajjal as the Antichrist is a myth that does not exist in Islam, since a God who tested people with a miracle-working devil child would contradict al-Rahman and al-Rahim. The Dajjal hadith refer either to Shaytan or, tentatively, to an age where the virtual becomes indistinguishable from the real. Mufti Abu Layth holds that the Dajjal as an Antichrist figure is a myth that does not exist in Islam, that the hadith linking the Dajjal with the second coming of Jesus and the Mahdi are unacceptable because a God who tested people with a miracle-working devil child would be unreasonable and clash with al-Rahman and al-Rahim, and that the Dajjal reports refer either to Shaytan or, on his tentative reading, to an age in which the virtual becomes indistinguishable from the real.

Answer from 9 April 2018 · auto-transcribed, may contain errors

Kind: general teaching

Recording: Why the Anti-Christ (Dajjal)? Concept is problematic in Islam - Mufti Abu Layth al-Maliki (at 0:00)

A more recent answer on belief/god-and-attributes exists (4 March 2024): How much does Allah love me?

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If I doubt one hadith in Bukhari, will I end up doubting the Quran?

Sun, 01 Apr 2018 00:00:00 +0000

If I doubt one hadith in Bukhari, will I end up doubting the Quran?

The warning that doubting one hadith leads to doubting the Quran is scare-mongering: Bukhari and Muslim are not the word of God, some of their reports must be rejected, and the deen does not fall apart from questioning. Mufti Abu Layth says Jesus is not going to come but treats the matter as a difference of opinion, not a sectarian one. Mufti Abu Layth says that warning people that doubting one hadith leads to doubting the Quran is scare-mongering, since Bukhari and Muslim are not the word of God and the deen does not fall apart from questioning; he says that in his view Jesus is not going to come, while asking that the matter be treated as a difference of opinion rather than a sectarian one.

Answer from 1 April 2018 · auto-transcribed, may contain errors

Kind: general teaching

Recording: Reflections on Sh. Hassan Ali's video of Jesus Christ's 2nd coming - Mufti Abu Layth al-Maliki (at 22:12)

A more recent answer on hadith/bukhari exists (18 October 2025): Why did Mufti Abu Layth challenge hadith in BukhariGate, and can the Prophet be called the most beloved of creation?

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On what principles can a hadith in Bukhari be rejected, and may ordinary Muslims do so?

Sun, 01 Apr 2018 00:00:00 +0000

On what principles can a hadith in Bukhari be rejected, and may ordinary Muslims do so?

A valid chain is not enough: a report must not go against reason, the established Quran and Sunnah, or the principles of Islam, and the Hanafi-Maturidi majority require mutawatir hadith for creed. Lay people may suspend a hadith that troubles them while seeking guidance; the gecko hadith is given as a report Mufti Abu Layth considers made up. Mufti Abu Layth says that a hadith with a valid chain must still be rejected if it goes against reason, the established Quran and Sunnah, or the principles of Islam, that creed requires mutawatir reports according to the Hanafi and Maturidi majority, that lay people may suspend a hadith that troubles them while seeking guidance, and that the gecko hadith is made up.

Answer from 1 April 2018 · auto-transcribed, may contain errors

Kind: general teaching

Recording: Reflections on Sh. Hassan Ali's video of Jesus Christ's 2nd coming - Mufti Abu Layth al-Maliki (at 18:17)

A more recent answer on hadith/mutawatir-and-epistemology exists (18 October 2025): Is the Quran-only position an argument from epistemology or from principle?

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Why do almost all the hadith about Jesus returning come through Abu Hurayra?

Sun, 01 Apr 2018 00:00:00 +0000

Why do almost all the hadith about Jesus returning come through Abu Hurayra?

Mufti Abu Layth does not believe the Prophet said the second-coming hadith: about eighty percent come through Abu Hurayra alone, who learned from the converts Ka'b al-Ahbar and Abdullah ibn Salam, and some of his reports appear elsewhere as Ka'b's words from the Torah. No such hadith comes from Abu Bakr, Umar, Ali or Uthman. Mufti Abu Layth says he does not believe the Prophet said the hadith about Jesus coming back, since almost eighty percent of them come through Abu Hurayra alone, who learned from Ka'b al-Ahbar and Abdullah ibn Salam, some of his reports appear elsewhere as Ka'b's words from the Torah, and none comes from Abu Bakr, Umar, Ali or Uthman.

Answer from 1 April 2018 · auto-transcribed, may contain errors

Kind: general teaching

Recording: Reflections on Sh. Hassan Ali's video of Jesus Christ's 2nd coming - Mufti Abu Layth al-Maliki (at 10:26)

A more recent answer on hadith/authentication/narrator-criticism exists (19 April 2023): Why does the practice of Madinah matter more than a single hadith?

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Does it matter that the second coming of Jesus is the majority opinion and Mufti Abu Layth's view a minority one?

Sun, 01 Apr 2018 00:00:00 +0000

Does it matter that the second coming of Jesus is the majority opinion and Mufti Abu Layth's view a minority one?

If every detail of the second-coming hadith is a metaphor, Mufti Abu Layth asks why Jesus himself is not. Majority and minority opinions are decided later by power and politics, as Abu Hanifa's case shows: condemned as a deviant by his contemporaries, his school spread when Abu Yusuf appointed only Hanafi judges. Mufti Abu Layth says that if the details of the second-coming hadith are metaphors then the whole account could be one, and that which opinion counts as majority or minority is decided later by power and politics rather than by contemporaries, as the case of Abu Hanifa shows.

Answer from 1 April 2018 · auto-transcribed, may contain errors

Kind: general teaching

Recording: Reflections on Sh. Hassan Ali's video of Jesus Christ's 2nd coming - Mufti Abu Layth al-Maliki (at 5:13)

A more recent answer on history/orthodoxy-and-how-islam-spread exists (13 February 2023): Why orthodoxy took hold, and who wrote the checklist

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Is the second coming of Jesus proven by the Quran or by the fact that most Muslims believe it?

Sun, 01 Apr 2018 00:00:00 +0000

Is the second coming of Jesus proven by the Quran or by the fact that most Muslims believe it?

The second coming cannot be proven from the Quran, as Hassan Ali concedes, and the fact that most Muslims believe it only reflects what they were taught as children, as with folk tales of Ya'juj and Ma'juj. The hadith on it have chain problems and, more importantly, details that clash with Islam. Mufti Abu Layth says the second coming of Jesus cannot be clearly proven from the Quran, that majority belief in it reflects childhood indoctrination rather than proof, and that the hadith on it have chain problems and contain details, such as Jesus forcing people to become Muslim, that clash with Islam.

Answer from 1 April 2018 · auto-transcribed, may contain errors

Kind: general teaching

Recording: Reflections on Sh. Hassan Ali's video of Jesus Christ's 2nd coming - Mufti Abu Layth al-Maliki (at 1:19)

A more recent answer on hadith/authentication/text-criticism-and-reason exists (19 August 2022): What does the Quran say against the satanic verses story?

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Introduction: reflections on Shaykh Hassan Ali's video, and respect for him

Sun, 01 Apr 2018 00:00:00 +0000

Introduction: reflections on Shaykh Hassan Ali's video, and respect for him

Mufti Abu Layth introduces his reply to Shaykh Hassan Ali's video on the second coming of Jesus and affirms his respect for him despite earlier disagreements such as on jinn possession.

Answer from 1 April 2018 · auto-transcribed, may contain errors

Recording: Reflections on Sh. Hassan Ali's video of Jesus Christ's 2nd coming - Mufti Abu Layth al-Maliki (at 0:00)

A more recent answer on belief/eschatology/second-coming-of-jesus exists (13 April 2021): Where are the answers to the questions on the Jesus debate?

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Close: miracles and reason to come, follow the pages, closing prayer

Tue, 13 Mar 2018 00:00:00 +0000

Close: miracles and reason to come, follow the pages, closing prayer

Sign-off with a preview of talks on miracles and on the meaning of reason, an invitation to follow his pages, and a closing prayer.

Answer from 13 March 2018 · auto-transcribed, may contain errors

Recording: PRELUDE: Why There Is NO 2nd Coming Of Jesus (as) In Islam- Mufti Abu Layth (at 2:31:10)

A more recent answer on belief/prophethood-and-miracles exists (18 October 2025): Can the Quran be used to call the Prophet the best of creation?

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Shaykh Abdul Majid's civility; the 'Mufti' remark clarified; music in front of one's daughters

Tue, 13 Mar 2018 00:00:00 +0000

Shaykh Abdul Majid's civility; the 'Mufti' remark clarified; music in front of one's daughters

Mufti Abu Layth praises a critic's civility, clarifies that he objects to attacks on his qualification rather than seeking a title, and says that not wanting music or dancing before one's daughters does not make them haram. Mufti Abu Layth says that not wanting something done in front of one's daughters does not make it haram, since everything has its time and place, and that he does not consider such things haram.

Answer from 13 March 2018 · auto-transcribed, may contain errors

Kind: general teaching

Recording: PRELUDE: Why There Is NO 2nd Coming Of Jesus (as) In Islam- Mufti Abu Layth (at 2:25:54)

A more recent answer on fiqh/entertainment/music exists (10 March 2023): Is it haram for men to wear earrings?

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Stop calling Bukhari the most authentic book after the Quran; fiqh preserved the living Sunnah

Tue, 13 Mar 2018 00:00:00 +0000

Stop calling Bukhari the most authentic book after the Quran; fiqh preserved the living Sunnah

Sahih al-Bukhari is an excellent effort but should not be called the most authentic book after the Quran; hadith are sifted, while fiqh and the madhhabs carry the Sunnah in living form. Mufti Abu Layth says Sahih al-Bukhari should not be called the most authentic book after the Quran: it is an excellent effort whose reports are still sifted, while fiqh and the madhhabs preserved the Sunnah in living form.

Answer from 13 March 2018 · auto-transcribed, may contain errors

Kind: general teaching

Recording: PRELUDE: Why There Is NO 2nd Coming Of Jesus (as) In Islam- Mufti Abu Layth (at 2:21:55)

A more recent answer on hadith/bukhari exists (18 October 2025): Why did Mufti Abu Layth challenge hadith in BukhariGate, and can the Prophet be called the most beloved of creation?

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Summary of the case against a second coming; Ibn Hazm on hadith against reason

Tue, 13 Mar 2018 00:00:00 +0000

Summary of the case against a second coming; Ibn Hazm on hadith against reason

There is no second coming of Jesus in Islam: the reports contradict the Quran, Sunnah and principles, are single-transmitter reports not creed, contradict each other, parallel the Bible, and are absent from the Quran and the Prophet's definition of faith. Mufti Abu Layth sums up that the reports of Jesus's return conflict with the Quran, the Sunnah and established principles, are single-transmitter reports rather than creed, contradict one another and echo Christian narratives, and that the Prophet did not mention Jesus when asked about faith or the signs of the hour.

Answer from 13 March 2018 · auto-transcribed, may contain errors

Kind: general teaching

Recording: PRELUDE: Why There Is NO 2nd Coming Of Jesus (as) In Islam- Mufti Abu Layth (at 2:19:16)

A more recent answer on hadith/authentication/text-criticism-and-reason exists (19 August 2022): What does the Quran say against the satanic verses story?

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Why would Jesus need to come back at all?

Tue, 13 Mar 2018 00:00:00 +0000

Why would Jesus need to come back at all?

Muslims have had to invent a reason for Jesus's return; killing a Dajjal who melts on sight is an anti-climax, and the other tasks contradict Jesus's own character and the Quran. Mufti Abu Layth says Muslims seem to try hard to invent a reason for Jesus to return, and that the tasks the reports give him contradict the love and compassion of his life.

Answer from 13 March 2018 · auto-transcribed, may contain errors

Kind: general teaching

Recording: PRELUDE: Why There Is NO 2nd Coming Of Jesus (as) In Islam- Mufti Abu Layth (at 2:15:21)

A more recent answer on belief/eschatology/second-coming-of-jesus exists (13 April 2021): Where are the answers to the questions on the Jesus debate?

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Verses 4:159 and 43:61: 'before his death' and 'knowledge of the hour'

Tue, 13 Mar 2018 00:00:00 +0000

Verses 4:159 and 43:61: 'before his death' and 'knowledge of the hour'

Neither 4:159 nor 43:61 establishes a return: the early exegetes read 4:159 of each Christian at death, Ubayy's reading is plural, and 43:61 says knowledge, not sign. Mufti Abu Layth holds that 4:159 refers to each Christian believing at death, following Ibn Abbas, Mujahid and Ubayy's plural reading, and that 43:61 says Jesus is knowledge of the hour, not a sign, so neither verse establishes a return.

Answer from 13 March 2018 · auto-transcribed, may contain errors

Kind: general teaching

Recording: PRELUDE: Why There Is NO 2nd Coming Of Jesus (as) In Islam- Mufti Abu Layth (at 2:11:25)

A more recent answer on quran/tafsir exists (18 October 2025): Why are two of the daily prayers recited silently when 17:110 says not to be silent?

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Verse 3:46 and the meaning of kahl: al-Razi and the origin of the second-coming reading

Tue, 13 Mar 2018 00:00:00 +0000

Verse 3:46 and the meaning of kahl: al-Razi and the origin of the second-coming reading

Kahl in 3:46 means mature manhood, which al-Razi says Jesus reached on earth; the reading of the verse as a second coming began only in the late third century with al-Bajali. Mufti Abu Layth holds that kahl in 3:46 means mature manhood from about thirty or forty, which Jesus reached on earth as al-Razi said, and that reading the verse as a second coming began only with al-Husayn ibn al-Fadl al-Bajali in the third century.

Answer from 13 March 2018 · auto-transcribed, may contain errors

Kind: general teaching

Recording: PRELUDE: Why There Is NO 2nd Coming Of Jesus (as) In Islam- Mufti Abu Layth (at 2:08:49)

A more recent answer on quran/tafsir exists (18 October 2025): Why are two of the daily prayers recited silently when 17:110 says not to be silent?

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The Creed of Tahawi is not the Quran; Ash'aris do not make takfir of ahl al-qiblah

Tue, 13 Mar 2018 00:00:00 +0000

The Creed of Tahawi is not the Quran; Ash'aris do not make takfir of ahl al-qiblah

Denying a line of Tahawi's creed is not kufr: Ibn Taymiyya rejected several of its points, it refutes whole Muslim groups, and Ash'ari creed forbids takfir of the people of the qiblah. Mufti Abu Layth says the Creed of al-Tahawi was written some 250 years after the Prophet and objects to treating the denial of a line of it as unbelief.

Answer from 13 March 2018 · auto-transcribed, may contain errors

Kind: general teaching

Recording: PRELUDE: Why There Is NO 2nd Coming Of Jesus (as) In Islam- Mufti Abu Layth (at 2:06:11)

A more recent answer on belief/sectarianism-and-takfir exists (22 February 2023): Should Sunnis preach to Shia Muslims about what they get wrong?

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Reply to Shadee Elmasry and Hamza Maqbool: 'probably an apostate'

Tue, 13 Mar 2018 00:00:00 +0000

Reply to Shadee Elmasry and Hamza Maqbool: 'probably an apostate'

Mufti Abu Layth rejects being called a probable apostate: no one can expel him from Islam by pressure, and declaring people kafir over this shows a god complex.

Answer from 13 March 2018 · auto-transcribed, may contain errors

Kind: general teaching

Recording: PRELUDE: Why There Is NO 2nd Coming Of Jesus (as) In Islam- Mufti Abu Layth (at 2:03:34)

A more recent answer on belief/sectarianism-and-takfir exists (22 February 2023): Should Sunnis preach to Shia Muslims about what they get wrong?

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Ibn Ashur, al-Shatibi and Ibn Khaldun on the Mahdi: a discussion within Islam

Tue, 13 Mar 2018 00:00:00 +0000

Ibn Ashur, al-Shatibi and Ibn Khaldun on the Mahdi: a discussion within Islam

Ibn Ashur, al-Shatibi and Ibn Khaldun all problematised the Mahdi reports and treated such matters as information rather than creed; Mufti Abu Layth says the return of Jesus is a discussion within Islam. Mufti Abu Layth holds that the Mahdi and the return of Jesus are matters of Islamic information open to discussion within Islam, not creed, as Ibn Ashur and al-Sha'rawi held.

Answer from 13 March 2018 · auto-transcribed, may contain errors

Kind: general teaching

Recording: PRELUDE: Why There Is NO 2nd Coming Of Jesus (as) In Islam- Mufti Abu Layth (at 2:00:56)

A more recent answer on belief/creed-and-kalam-schools exists (13 February 2023): Why orthodoxy took hold, and who wrote the checklist

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Everyone picks and chooses: later scholars on mawlid, shrines, hadra and the Jesus hadith

Tue, 13 Mar 2018 00:00:00 +0000

Everyone picks and chooses: later scholars on mawlid, shrines, hadra and the Jesus hadith

Every group accepts later scholars against earlier ones when it suits them; Mufti Abu Layth says rejecting the Jesus hadith on the later scholars' authority is no different. Mufti Abu Layth says everyone, Salafis included, picks and chooses between early and later scholars, so rejecting the Jesus hadith on the authority of later scholars is no different from what others do.

Answer from 13 March 2018 · auto-transcribed, may contain errors

Kind: general teaching

Recording: PRELUDE: Why There Is NO 2nd Coming Of Jesus (as) In Islam- Mufti Abu Layth (at 1:56:59)

A more recent answer on fiqh/legal-theory exists (18 October 2025): If reason helps us understand the Quran, does the reasoning of earlier scholars matter too?

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Shawkani against claimed consensus: music, following a madhhab, four wives, raf' al-yadayn

Tue, 13 Mar 2018 00:00:00 +0000

Shawkani against claimed consensus: music, following a madhhab, four wives, raf' al-yadayn

Those who cite Shawkani's claim that the return is mutawatir do not follow him when he rejects other consensuses or calls raf' al-yadayn mutawatir; claimed consensuses have been overturned before. Mufti Abu Layth says Shawkani's claim that the return of Jesus is mutawatir cannot bind when Shawkani himself rejected claimed consensuses on music, following a madhhab and marrying more than four wives, and those who cite him ignore him elsewhere.

Answer from 13 March 2018 · auto-transcribed, may contain errors

Kind: general teaching

Recording: PRELUDE: Why There Is NO 2nd Coming Of Jesus (as) In Islam- Mufti Abu Layth (at 1:53:04)

A more recent answer on fiqh/legal-theory exists (18 October 2025): If reason helps us understand the Quran, does the reasoning of earlier scholars matter too?

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Rashid Rida at Deoband: how scholars disagree with adab

Tue, 13 Mar 2018 00:00:00 +0000

Rashid Rida at Deoband: how scholars disagree with adab

Rida and Kashmiri held opposite views on the return of Jesus yet honoured each other at Deoband; Mufti Abu Layth says this is how scholars should disagree.

Answer from 13 March 2018 · auto-transcribed, may contain errors

Kind: general teaching

Recording: PRELUDE: Why There Is NO 2nd Coming Of Jesus (as) In Islam- Mufti Abu Layth (at 1:50:28)

A more recent answer on wellbeing/character-and-virtue exists (29 September 2024): Spread love, and take account of the damage our words have done

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Anwar Shah Kashmiri's claim of ijma, and the scholars who rejected the return

Tue, 13 Mar 2018 00:00:00 +0000

Anwar Shah Kashmiri's claim of ijma, and the scholars who rejected the return

Kashmiri's compilation of over a hundred return hadith contains mostly weak reports by his own count, and a line of Azhar and other scholars from Abduh to Muhammad al-Ghazali rejected the second coming.

Answer from 13 March 2018 · auto-transcribed, may contain errors

Kind: quoted view (stated in order to be discussed, not necessarily held)

Recording: PRELUDE: Why There Is NO 2nd Coming Of Jesus (as) In Islam- Mufti Abu Layth (at 1:47:50)

A more recent answer on hadith/mutawatir-and-epistemology exists (18 October 2025): Is the Quran-only position an argument from epistemology or from principle?

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Give glad tidings, make things easy: the hadith behind his approach; do not intimidate

Tue, 13 Mar 2018 00:00:00 +0000

Give glad tidings, make things easy: the hadith behind his approach; do not intimidate

The Prophet's instruction to give glad tidings and make things easy is the pillar of Mufti Abu Layth's approach; intimidating people into beliefs contradicts it, and learning Islam for oneself is what kept him in it. Mufti Abu Layth says the Prophet's instruction to give glad tidings and make things easy is the pillar of his understanding of Islam, and that intimidating people into beliefs contradicts the Prophet's way and Imam Malik's.

Answer from 13 March 2018 · auto-transcribed, may contain errors

Kind: general teaching

Recording: PRELUDE: Why There Is NO 2nd Coming Of Jesus (as) In Islam- Mufti Abu Layth (at 1:43:54)

A more recent answer on wellbeing/character-and-virtue exists (29 September 2024): Spread love, and take account of the damage our words have done

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A belief that changed nothing for the dead; the hadith on his teacher's wall

Tue, 13 Mar 2018 00:00:00 +0000

A belief that changed nothing for the dead; the hadith on his teacher's wall

The belief in Jesus's return has had zero impact on anyone who died until today, so it cannot be a core part of faith; Mufti Abu Layth introduces the hadith that shaped his approach. Mufti Abu Layth holds that the belief in Jesus's return has had no impact on the faith of anyone who died until today, so it cannot be a core part of Islam.

Answer from 13 March 2018 · auto-transcribed, may contain errors

Kind: general teaching

Recording: PRELUDE: Why There Is NO 2nd Coming Of Jesus (as) In Islam- Mufti Abu Layth (at 1:41:17)

A more recent answer on belief/reason-and-revelation exists (18 October 2025): Why did Mufti Abu Layth bring up 3:188 against the Quran-only position?

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Zuhri's reports: Fatima's anger, the attempted suicide, and half the Jesus hadith

Tue, 13 Mar 2018 00:00:00 +0000

Zuhri's reports: Fatima's anger, the attempted suicide, and half the Jesus hadith

Scholars discard Zuhri's Fatima and suicide reports as his insertions but refuse to question the Jesus reports, half of which come through him with disconnected chains; Mufti Abu Layth calls this a double standard.

Answer from 13 March 2018 · auto-transcribed, may contain errors

Kind: general teaching

Recording: PRELUDE: Why There Is NO 2nd Coming Of Jesus (as) In Islam- Mufti Abu Layth (at 1:37:20)

A more recent answer on hadith/bukhari exists (18 October 2025): Why did Mufti Abu Layth challenge hadith in BukhariGate, and can the Prophet be called the most beloved of creation?

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Isn't the return of Jesus established by ijma and mutawatir hadith?

Tue, 13 Mar 2018 00:00:00 +0000

Isn't the return of Jesus established by ijma and mutawatir hadith?

There is no consensus on what ijma is, and tawatur is applied selectively: the same scholars reject the Gospels, Hindu miracle reports and Shia transmissions that would qualify by their own definition. Mufti Abu Layth holds that there is no consensus on what consensus is, that ijma began as collective assurance rather than a source of Sharia, and that accepting only one's own mutawatir while rejecting others' is inconsistent.

Answer from 13 March 2018 · auto-transcribed, may contain errors

Kind: general teaching

Recording: PRELUDE: Why There Is NO 2nd Coming Of Jesus (as) In Islam- Mufti Abu Layth (at 1:33:26)

A more recent answer on hadith/mutawatir-and-epistemology exists (18 October 2025): Is the Quran-only position an argument from epistemology or from principle?

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Why hadith, not the Quran or fiqh, was corrupted: Umar ibn Abd al-Aziz, Zuhri and forged chains

Tue, 13 Mar 2018 00:00:00 +0000

Why hadith, not the Quran or fiqh, was corrupted: Umar ibn Abd al-Aziz, Zuhri and forged chains

Mufti Abu Layth holds that early opponents corrupted hadith, not the Quran or fiqh, in the century before chains were demanded; this is why Malik relied on inherited practice and treated isolated reports as information, not creed. Mufti Abu Layth holds that people hostile to Islam brought the belief in Jesus's return in as Christian propaganda through hadith, which went undocumented for about a century and whose chains could be copied, and that this is why Imam Malik told people to rely on inherited practice over isolated reports.

Answer from 13 March 2018 · auto-transcribed, may contain errors

Kind: general teaching

Recording: PRELUDE: Why There Is NO 2nd Coming Of Jesus (as) In Islam- Mufti Abu Layth (at 1:26:52)

A more recent answer on hadith/false-and-fabricated exists (18 October 2025): Why does Mufti Abu Layth see the Quran-only movement as a reaction of anger?

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How could fabricated hadith have crept into mainstream Islam?

Tue, 13 Mar 2018 00:00:00 +0000

How could fabricated hadith have crept into mainstream Islam?

Fear of questioning drives the backlash; Mufti Abu Layth says the murder of Uthman, Karbala, the sack of Madinah and the catapulting of the Kaaba all happened within decades, long before hadith were documented, so corruption of reports was possible.

Answer from 13 March 2018 · auto-transcribed, may contain errors

Kind: general teaching

Recording: PRELUDE: Why There Is NO 2nd Coming Of Jesus (as) In Islam- Mufti Abu Layth (at 1:22:57)

A more recent answer on hadith/false-and-fabricated exists (18 October 2025): Why does Mufti Abu Layth see the Quran-only movement as a reaction of anger?

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Three conditions for accepting a hadith; Ibn Uthaymin and the Jassasa report

Tue, 13 Mar 2018 00:00:00 +0000

Three conditions for accepting a hadith; Ibn Uthaymin and the Jassasa report

A hadith is accepted only if it does not contradict reason, the Quran and established Sunnah, or uproot a principle of Islam; the Jesus reports fail this test, and even Ibn Uthaymin rejected a sahih Dajjal report on such grounds. Mufti Abu Layth holds that a hadith is accepted only if it does not go against reason, does not contradict the Quran and established Sunnah, and does not uproot a principle of Islam, and that the hadith of Jesus's return fail these tests.

Answer from 13 March 2018 · auto-transcribed, may contain errors

Kind: general teaching

Recording: PRELUDE: Why There Is NO 2nd Coming Of Jesus (as) In Islam- Mufti Abu Layth (at 1:20:19)

A more recent answer on hadith/authentication/text-criticism-and-reason exists (19 August 2022): What does the Quran say against the satanic verses story?

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Israiliyyat in hadith: man in God's image and creation on the Sabbath

Tue, 13 Mar 2018 00:00:00 +0000

Israiliyyat in hadith: man in God's image and creation on the Sabbath

Reports such as man created in God's image and creation on the Sabbath are Biblical material that Malik and Ibn Taymiyya rejected; Mufti Abu Layth says the Jesus narrative shows the same Israiliyyat influence. Mufti Abu Layth says reports such as God creating man in his image and creating the soil on the Sabbath are Israiliyyat taken from Genesis, as Imam Malik and Ibn Taymiyya held, even when their chains are sound.

Answer from 13 March 2018 · auto-transcribed, may contain errors

Kind: general teaching

Recording: PRELUDE: Why There Is NO 2nd Coming Of Jesus (as) In Islam- Mufti Abu Layth (at 1:17:41)

A more recent answer on hadith/false-and-fabricated exists (18 October 2025): Why does Mufti Abu Layth see the Quran-only movement as a reaction of anger?

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The white minaret of Damascus: places that did not exist in the Prophet's time

Tue, 13 Mar 2018 00:00:00 +0000

The white minaret of Damascus: places that did not exist in the Prophet's time

Hadith placing Jesus's descent on a white minaret in Damascus describe a structure that did not exist in the Prophet's time; Mufti Abu Layth says such reports appeared once Damascus became the Umayyad capital. Mufti Abu Layth says hadith placing Jesus's descent at a white minaret in Damascus are suspect because no such minaret existed in the Prophet's time and Damascus became central only after it became the Umayyad capital.

Answer from 13 March 2018 · auto-transcribed, may contain errors

Kind: general teaching

Recording: PRELUDE: Why There Is NO 2nd Coming Of Jesus (as) In Islam- Mufti Abu Layth (at 1:12:25)

A more recent answer on hadith/false-and-fabricated exists (18 October 2025): Why does Mufti Abu Layth see the Quran-only movement as a reaction of anger?

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What about the Dajjal? Doesn't Jesus have to return to kill him?

Tue, 13 Mar 2018 00:00:00 +0000

What about the Dajjal? Doesn't Jesus have to return to kill him?

Mufti Abu Layth holds that the Dajjal is not a man: the reports are defective or refer to the devil, he is absent from the Quran, and the narrations conflict and are tied to a conquest of Constantinople that happened centuries ago. Mufti Abu Layth holds that the Dajjal is definitely not a man: the reports are fabricated in meaning or defective, refer to the devil or at best to a future illusion, and the Dajjal is not mentioned in the Quran.

Answer from 13 March 2018 · auto-transcribed, may contain errors

Kind: general teaching

Recording: PRELUDE: Why There Is NO 2nd Coming Of Jesus (as) In Islam- Mufti Abu Layth (at 1:05:51)

A more recent answer on hadith/authentication/text-criticism-and-reason exists (19 August 2022): What does the Quran say against the satanic verses story?

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What Imam Malik transmitted: no return of Jesus, Zuhri's reports, the pig passed in peace

Tue, 13 Mar 2018 00:00:00 +0000

What Imam Malik transmitted: no return of Jesus, Zuhri's reports, the pig passed in peace

Imam Malik's Muwatta contains no hadith of Jesus's return and has Jesus greeting a pig in peace; Mufti Abu Layth reads this as Malik rejecting Zuhri's reports, half of which carry the return narrative. Mufti Abu Layth holds that Imam Malik deliberately left the hadith of Jesus's return out of the Muwatta, transmitting only a fraction of al-Zuhri's reports, and that Malik's refusal to accept isolated hadith blindly is the approach to follow.

Answer from 13 March 2018 · auto-transcribed, may contain errors

Kind: general teaching

Recording: PRELUDE: Why There Is NO 2nd Coming Of Jesus (as) In Islam- Mufti Abu Layth (at 58:03)

A more recent answer on history/scholars-and-imams/imam-malik exists (19 April 2023): Did Imam Malik reject the hadith he did not act on?

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The details of the Jesus hadith against the Quran: sword, judge, Jews, world peace

Tue, 13 Mar 2018 00:00:00 +0000

The details of the Jesus hadith against the Quran: sword, judge, Jews, world peace

The details of the return hadith, conversion by the sword, universal Islam, the killing of the Jews and world peace, contradict the Quran and the Prophet's life and mirror the gospels. Mufti Abu Layth holds that the details in the hadith of Jesus's return, such as conversion by the sword, everyone becoming Muslim, the killing of the Jews and universal peace, contradict the Quran and the Prophet's life and mirror the gospels.

Answer from 13 March 2018 · auto-transcribed, may contain errors

Kind: general teaching

Recording: PRELUDE: Why There Is NO 2nd Coming Of Jesus (as) In Islam- Mufti Abu Layth (at 52:49)

A more recent answer on hadith/authentication/text-criticism-and-reason exists (19 August 2022): What does the Quran say against the satanic verses story?

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If faith is no longer valid, why a judge? Psychology of testimony and detail

Tue, 13 Mar 2018 00:00:00 +0000

If faith is no longer valid, why a judge? Psychology of testimony and detail

Testimony is tested through its details, and excessive detail is a warning sign; Mufti Abu Layth sets up this frame for examining the hadith of Jesus's return.

Answer from 13 March 2018 · auto-transcribed, may contain errors

Kind: general teaching

Recording: PRELUDE: Why There Is NO 2nd Coming Of Jesus (as) In Islam- Mufti Abu Layth (at 50:12)

A more recent answer on hadith/authentication/text-criticism-and-reason exists (19 August 2022): What does the Quran say against the satanic verses story?

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If Jesus comes down from the sky, what is the point of faith after that?

Tue, 13 Mar 2018 00:00:00 +0000

If Jesus comes down from the sky, what is the point of faith after that?

Siddina's answer was that once Jesus descends, taklif ends and faith is no longer accepted; Mufti Abu Layth presents this answer for examination and finds it confused.

Answer from 13 March 2018 · auto-transcribed, may contain errors

Kind: quoted view (stated in order to be discussed, not necessarily held)

Recording: PRELUDE: Why There Is NO 2nd Coming Of Jesus (as) In Islam- Mufti Abu Layth (at 47:33)

A more recent answer on belief/eschatology/second-coming-of-jesus exists (13 April 2021): Where are the answers to the questions on the Jesus debate?

Watch on YouTube at 48:53 · Open the segment

Why would Jesus need to return if the Prophet Muhammad completed the religion?

Tue, 13 Mar 2018 00:00:00 +0000

Why would Jesus need to return if the Prophet Muhammad completed the religion?

Muslims have no reason of their own for Jesus to return; Mufti Abu Layth rejects the descent hadith because they clash with the Quran and other hadith, not from any misunderstanding of yanzilu. Mufti Abu Layth says he does not accept the hadith of Jesus's descent because they clash with the Quran and with other hadith, not because of any misunderstanding of the Arabic yanzilu.

Answer from 13 March 2018 · auto-transcribed, may contain errors

Kind: general teaching

Recording: PRELUDE: Why There Is NO 2nd Coming Of Jesus (as) In Islam- Mufti Abu Layth (at 42:18)

A more recent answer on dialogue/christians-and-other-faiths exists (26 April 2021): What does Lupe Fiasco think of Killah Priest's song B.I.B.L.E.?

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The second coming as a central Christian doctrine: Jesus returns as judge

Tue, 13 Mar 2018 00:00:00 +0000

The second coming as a central Christian doctrine: Jesus returns as judge

The second coming is central to Christianity, and the New Testament's picture of Jesus returning as a judge matches what the hadith say. Mufti Abu Layth says the second coming is perhaps the second most important Christian belief, on which Christianity rose, and that the hadith's picture of Jesus returning as a judge matches the New Testament.

Answer from 13 March 2018 · auto-transcribed, may contain errors

Kind: general teaching

Recording: PRELUDE: Why There Is NO 2nd Coming Of Jesus (as) In Islam- Mufti Abu Layth (at 39:52)

A more recent answer on dialogue/christians-and-other-faiths exists (26 April 2021): What does Lupe Fiasco think of Killah Priest's song B.I.B.L.E.?

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A Christian belief that crept into Islam; creed cannot be blind-followed

Tue, 13 Mar 2018 00:00:00 +0000

A Christian belief that crept into Islam; creed cannot be blind-followed

Mufti Abu Layth holds that Jesus's return is a Christian belief that entered Islam and contradicts the Quran and its principles. Creed cannot be blind-followed, so he will not be intimidated into it. Mufti Abu Layth holds that the belief in Jesus's return is not Islamic because it contradicts the main teachings of the Quran, the principles of Islam and the Prophet's life and message.

Answer from 13 March 2018 · auto-transcribed, may contain errors

Kind: general teaching

Recording: PRELUDE: Why There Is NO 2nd Coming Of Jesus (as) In Islam- Mufti Abu Layth (at 37:15)

A more recent answer on belief/creed-and-kalam-schools exists (13 February 2023): Why orthodoxy took hold, and who wrote the checklist

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Stop obsessing about the end times: the hadith of Jibril and the planting hadith

Tue, 13 Mar 2018 00:00:00 +0000

Stop obsessing about the end times: the hadith of Jibril and the planting hadith

Muslims should stop obsessing about the end times; the hadith of Jibril defines faith and the signs of the hour without mentioning Jesus's return or the Dajjal. Mufti Abu Layth says the hadith of Jibril defines faith and the signs of the hour without mentioning the return of Jesus or the Dajjal, and he agrees that Muslims should stop obsessing about the end times.

Answer from 13 March 2018 · auto-transcribed, may contain errors

Kind: general teaching

Recording: PRELUDE: Why There Is NO 2nd Coming Of Jesus (as) In Islam- Mufti Abu Layth (at 34:38)

A more recent answer on belief/eschatology/second-coming-of-jesus exists (13 April 2021): Where are the answers to the questions on the Jesus debate?

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Why do other scholars not see what Mufti Abu Layth sees about the return of Jesus?

Tue, 13 Mar 2018 00:00:00 +0000

Why do other scholars not see what Mufti Abu Layth sees about the return of Jesus?

Others do see it but fear their own group; Mufti Abu Layth says belonging to no sect lets him follow what makes sense in light of the Quran and Sunnah. Mufti Abu Layth says that belonging to no sect frees him to follow whatever makes sense in light of the Quran and Sunnah, while scholars bound to a group fear expressing views their group rejects.

Answer from 13 March 2018 · auto-transcribed, may contain errors

Kind: general teaching

Recording: PRELUDE: Why There Is NO 2nd Coming Of Jesus (as) In Islam- Mufti Abu Layth (at 32:00)

A more recent answer on belief/sectarianism-and-takfir exists (22 February 2023): Should Sunnis preach to Shia Muslims about what they get wrong?

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We are all seeking the truth: disagree without takfir

Tue, 13 Mar 2018 00:00:00 +0000

We are all seeking the truth: disagree without takfir

Muslims should be able to disagree about Islam without insults or takfir, since everyone is seeking the truth. Mufti Abu Layth says Muslims who disagree on interpretation should treat each other gently as fellow seekers of the truth, without labels or takfir.

Answer from 13 March 2018 · auto-transcribed, may contain errors

Kind: general teaching

Recording: PRELUDE: Why There Is NO 2nd Coming Of Jesus (as) In Islam- Mufti Abu Layth (at 29:23)

A more recent answer on wellbeing/character-and-virtue exists (29 September 2024): Spread love, and take account of the damage our words have done

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Calling to the Quran and Sunnah, not hadith; the winged horse on national television

Tue, 13 Mar 2018 00:00:00 +0000

Calling to the Quran and Sunnah, not hadith; the winged horse on national television

Mufti Abu Layth calls people to the Quran and Sunnah rather than to hadith as such, since hadith must be sifted; the Dawkins and Mehdi Hasan exchange shows why religion must withstand reason. Mufti Abu Layth holds that religion must make sense because the Quran calls to reason, and he calls people to the Quran and the Sunnah rather than to hadith as such, since hadith contain contradictions that must be sifted.

Answer from 13 March 2018 · auto-transcribed, may contain errors

Kind: general teaching

Recording: PRELUDE: Why There Is NO 2nd Coming Of Jesus (as) In Islam- Mufti Abu Layth (at 25:32)

A more recent answer on hadith/sunnah-versus-hadith exists (18 October 2025): Does the Muwatta show that the Companions' practice had already changed by Malik's time?

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Two camps of religion: tribal mythology versus religion that must make sense

Tue, 13 Mar 2018 00:00:00 +0000

Two camps of religion: tribal mythology versus religion that must make sense

Religion is approached either as tribal custom with a mythology of superheroes, or as something that must make sense; Mufti Abu Layth says he is speaking only to the second group. Mufti Abu Layth says he addresses only those for whom religion must make sense and be based on reason, since God would not contradict the laws he placed in the world.

Answer from 13 March 2018 · auto-transcribed, may contain errors

Kind: general teaching

Recording: PRELUDE: Why There Is NO 2nd Coming Of Jesus (as) In Islam- Mufti Abu Layth (at 20:20)

A more recent answer on belief/reason-and-revelation exists (18 October 2025): Why did Mufti Abu Layth bring up 3:188 against the Quran-only position?

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Why make a big deal of whether Jesus returns, and who is the message for?

Tue, 13 Mar 2018 00:00:00 +0000

Why make a big deal of whether Jesus returns, and who is the message for?

Mufti Abu Layth says his critics, not he, made this a big deal; he has taught it for a year and stands by his position. He is addressing only one of two broad camps of religious people.

Answer from 13 March 2018 · auto-transcribed, may contain errors

Kind: general teaching

Recording: PRELUDE: Why There Is NO 2nd Coming Of Jesus (as) In Islam- Mufti Abu Layth (at 17:41)

A more recent answer on belief/eschatology/second-coming-of-jesus exists (13 April 2021): Where are the answers to the questions on the Jesus debate?

Watch on YouTube at 19:00 · Open the segment

Critics sharing clips of al-Dedew and al-Awni: double standards in scholarship

Tue, 13 Mar 2018 00:00:00 +0000

Critics sharing clips of al-Dedew and al-Awni: double standards in scholarship

Critics are circulating old clips and articles by scholars they otherwise reject; Mufti Abu Layth says this is cherry-picking and poor scholarship, and that others have held his view before him.

Answer from 13 March 2018 · auto-transcribed, may contain errors

Kind: general teaching

Recording: PRELUDE: Why There Is NO 2nd Coming Of Jesus (as) In Islam- Mufti Abu Layth (at 14:16)

A more recent answer on dialogue/views-on-contemporary-scholars exists (22 February 2023): Should scholars publicly condemn a scholar said to have joined in a libation ritual?

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Reply to Abu Ibrahim's post and Hizb ut-Tahrir's double standard

Tue, 13 Mar 2018 00:00:00 +0000

Reply to Abu Ibrahim's post and Hizb ut-Tahrir's double standard

Critics who have long opposed Mufti Abu Layth, including Hizb ut-Tahrir whose own literature treats the return of Jesus as a solitary report, have united against him; he puts this down to sectarian politics.

Answer from 13 March 2018 · auto-transcribed, may contain errors

Kind: general teaching

Recording: PRELUDE: Why There Is NO 2nd Coming Of Jesus (as) In Islam- Mufti Abu Layth (at 10:24)

A more recent answer on belief/sectarianism-and-takfir exists (22 February 2023): Should Sunnis preach to Shia Muslims about what they get wrong?

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Why the second-coming debate blew up and what tonight's prelude covers

Tue, 13 Mar 2018 00:00:00 +0000

Why the second-coming debate blew up and what tonight's prelude covers

The talk is a prelude to Mufti Abu Layth's case against a second coming of Jesus, prompted by the controversy and the takfir his earlier statements provoked.

Answer from 13 March 2018 · auto-transcribed, may contain errors

Kind: general teaching

Recording: PRELUDE: Why There Is NO 2nd Coming Of Jesus (as) In Islam- Mufti Abu Layth (at 3:54)

A more recent answer on belief/sectarianism-and-takfir exists (22 February 2023): Should Sunnis preach to Shia Muslims about what they get wrong?

Watch on YouTube at 3:54 · Open the segment

Opening: unwell but live, Facebook sharing and greetings

Tue, 13 Mar 2018 00:00:00 +0000

Opening: unwell but live, Facebook sharing and greetings

Housekeeping and greetings before the talk; a question about riba is referred to an earlier YouTube clip.

Answer from 13 March 2018 · auto-transcribed, may contain errors

Recording: PRELUDE: Why There Is NO 2nd Coming Of Jesus (as) In Islam- Mufti Abu Layth (at 0:03)

Watch on YouTube at 0:03 · Open the segment