Mufti Abu Layth Archive: belief/eschatology/dajjal-mahdi-and-signs

Are the signs of the Hour part of Islamic creed?

Tue, 06 Apr 2021 00:00:00 +0000

Are the signs of the Hour part of Islamic creed?

One can be a Maliki and doubt these reports: Ibn Ashur, Shaykh al-Islam of the Malikis, classed the signs of the Hour as information rather than creed, and Imam Ahmad said the malahim reports have no foundation.

Answer from 6 April 2021 · auto-transcribed, may contain errors

Kind: general teaching

Recording: Monday Nights with Mufti #209 | Q&A Unscripted & Unrestricted! 😉 | Mufti Abu Layth (at 2:51:30)

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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Where does the belief in the Mahdi come from?

Tue, 06 Apr 2021 00:00:00 +0000

Where does the belief in the Mahdi come from?

The Mahdi belief is disrespectful to the Prophet, who was the rightly guided saviour, and entered Sunni Islam from early Shia political movements; the Mahdi hadith describe figures of that time. Mufti Abu Layth says the belief in a Mahdi is disrespectful to the Prophet, who was the rightly guided saviour, and that it entered Sunni Islam from early Shia political movements, the Mahdi hadith being fabricated descriptions of figures of that time.

Answer from 6 April 2021 · auto-transcribed, may contain errors

Kind: general teaching

Recording: Monday Nights with Mufti #209 | Q&A Unscripted & Unrestricted! 😉 | Mufti Abu Layth (at 2:43:30)

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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Did the Prophet really spy on a boy he thought was the Dajjal?

Tue, 06 Apr 2021 00:00:00 +0000

Did the Prophet really spy on a boy he thought was the Dajjal?

The Ibn Sayyad and Dajjal reports are absurd and insult the Prophet's dignity, and their contradictory accounts of who and where the Dajjal is show they are not revelation. Mufti Abu Layth says the reports in which the Prophet spies on the child Ibn Sayyad suspecting him to be the Dajjal, and related reports in Sahih Muslim and Bukhari, are absurd and insulting to the Prophet's dignity, and that their contradictory accounts of the Dajjal's identity and location show they are not revelation.

Answer from 6 April 2021 · auto-transcribed, may contain errors

Kind: general teaching

Recording: Monday Nights with Mufti #209 | Q&A Unscripted & Unrestricted! 😉 | Mufti Abu Layth (at 2:30:54)

A more recent answer on hadith/false-and-fabricated/about-the-prophet exists (19 August 2022): Recap: the novel, insult versus critique, and the false story summarised

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Is the hadith of Aisha about Jesus and the Dajjal reliable?

Sun, 14 Mar 2021 00:00:00 +0000

Is the hadith of Aisha about Jesus and the Dajjal reliable?

The hadith of Aisha on Jesus's return rests on a lone transmitter, an undervalued narrator who dictated 41,000 reports from memory in Isbahan with a thousand errors, and whose version alone has the Dajjal emerging from the Jews of Isbahan, which Mufti Abu Layth finds suspicious. Mufti Abu Layth says the hadith of Aisha on Jesus's return rests on a lone transmitter, an undervalued narrator who dictated some forty-one thousand reports from memory in Isbahan with at least a thousand errors and whose version alone has the Dajjal emerging from the Jews of Isbahan, which he finds suspicious.

Answer from 14 March 2021 · auto-transcribed, may contain errors

Kind: general teaching

Recording: Reply to Yasir Qadhi's False Claims on 2nd Coming of Jesus | Mufti Abu Layth (at 2:02:15)

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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Is Yasir Qadhi consistent about whether Gog and Magog could be hidden underground?

Sun, 14 Mar 2021 00:00:00 +0000

Is Yasir Qadhi consistent about whether Gog and Magog could be hidden underground?

In one clip Qadhi says it is not impossible, since Allah is all-powerful and Ibn Taymiyya's rule allows what astounds the mind, that thousands live underground; in another he says he cannot believe a tribe has been trapped for four thousand years. Mufti Abu Layth asks where the consistency is.

Answer from 14 March 2021 · auto-transcribed, may contain errors

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

Recording: Reply to Yasir Qadhi's False Claims on 2nd Coming of Jesus | Mufti Abu Layth (at 55:19)

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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What is Yasir Qadhi's zombie theory about Gog and Magog?

Sun, 14 Mar 2021 00:00:00 +0000

What is Yasir Qadhi's zombie theory about Gog and Magog?

Qadhi's clip calls a hidden tribe of billions ludicrous and floats, through a friend, the idea that Gog and Magog could be zombie-like humans. Mufti Abu Layth responds with jokes and introduces Qadhi's answer to the Google Earth objection.

Answer from 14 March 2021 · auto-transcribed, may contain errors

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

Recording: Reply to Yasir Qadhi's False Claims on 2nd Coming of Jesus | Mufti Abu Layth (at 49:56)

A more recent answer on dialogue/responses-to-critics/yasir-qadhi exists (13 April 2021): Where are the answers to the questions on the Jesus debate?

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Did Yasir Qadhi himself say a hadith came into Islam from Jewish sources through Abu Hurayra?

Sun, 14 Mar 2021 00:00:00 +0000

Did Yasir Qadhi himself say a hadith came into Islam from Jewish sources through Abu Hurayra?

Qadhi's clip endorses Ibn Kathir's view that the Gog and Magog report is defective and came from Israelite material through Abu Hurayra and Ka'b al-Ahbar. Mufti Abu Layth calls this hypocrisy, since Qadhi called the same claim about the Jesus reports preposterous.

Answer from 14 March 2021 · auto-transcribed, may contain errors

Kind: general teaching

Recording: Reply to Yasir Qadhi's False Claims on 2nd Coming of Jesus | Mufti Abu Layth (at 47:19)

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 the Muslim account of the Mahdi, Jesus and Gog and Magog parallel Jewish messianic literature?

Sun, 14 Mar 2021 00:00:00 +0000

Does the Muslim account of the Mahdi, Jesus and Gog and Magog parallel Jewish messianic literature?

Qadhi's own clip lays out the Midrash's two messiahs, Gog and Magog and judgement, notes the parallel with the Muslim Mahdi, Messiah and Gog and Magog, and suggests both traditions simply had it. Mufti Abu Layth responds with sarcasm and notes Qadhi's admission that Muslim books contain bizarre material.

Answer from 14 March 2021 · auto-transcribed, may contain errors

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

Recording: Reply to Yasir Qadhi's False Claims on 2nd Coming of Jesus | Mufti Abu Layth (at 43:24)

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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What did Yasir Qadhi himself say about problematic signs of the Hour such as Gog and Magog?

Sun, 14 Mar 2021 00:00:00 +0000

What did Yasir Qadhi himself say about problematic signs of the Hour such as Gog and Magog?

Mufti Abu Layth plays Qadhi's earlier talk calling Gog and Magog the most problematic sign of the Hour and a cause of people leaving Islam. He accuses Qadhi of half truths, such as omitting that the Maliki authorities held the Jesus reports unestablished, and says a Jesus who descends from the sky to chase pigs is a reasonable thing to question.

Answer from 14 March 2021 · auto-transcribed, may contain errors

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Recording: Reply to Yasir Qadhi's False Claims on 2nd Coming of Jesus | Mufti Abu Layth (at 38:07)

A more recent answer on dialogue/responses-to-critics/yasir-qadhi exists (13 April 2021): Where are the answers to the questions on the Jesus debate?

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Is the hadith of Aisha about Jesus and the Dajjal reliable?

Tue, 02 Mar 2021 00:00:00 +0000

Is the hadith of Aisha about Jesus and the Dajjal reliable?

The Aisha report rests on one transmitter who dictated tens of thousands of hadith from memory in Isbahan, and only his version has the Dajjal emerge from the Jews of Isbahan, which Mufti Abu Layth finds suspicious. Mufti Abu Layth says only one transmitter relates from Aisha the report with Jesus in it.

Answer from 2 March 2021 · auto-transcribed, may contain errors

Kind: general teaching

Recording: Monday Nights with Mufti #204 | Q&A Unscripted & Unrestricted! 😉 | Mufti Abu Layth (at 3:06:13)

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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Has Yasir Qadhi been consistent about whether Gog and Magog could be hidden underground?

Tue, 02 Mar 2021 00:00:00 +0000

Has Yasir Qadhi been consistent about whether Gog and Magog could be hidden underground?

Mufti Abu Layth sets an older Qadhi clip defending the Gog and Magog hadith as 'not impossible' against his later statement that he cannot believe it.

Answer from 2 March 2021 · auto-transcribed, may contain errors

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

Recording: Monday Nights with Mufti #204 | Q&A Unscripted & Unrestricted! 😉 | Mufti Abu Layth (at 1:57:36)

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 is Yasir Qadhi's zombie theory of Gog and Magog?

Tue, 02 Mar 2021 00:00:00 +0000

What is Yasir Qadhi's zombie theory of Gog and Magog?

In the clip Qadhi rejects a hidden tribe of Gog and Magog as irrational and floats a zombie theory instead, which Mufti Abu Layth mocks.

Answer from 2 March 2021 · auto-transcribed, may contain errors

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

Recording: Monday Nights with Mufti #204 | Q&A Unscripted & Unrestricted! 😉 | Mufti Abu Layth (at 1:53:29)

A more recent answer on dialogue/responses-to-critics/yasir-qadhi exists (13 April 2021): Where are the answers to the questions on the Jesus debate?

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Did Yasir Qadhi himself say a hadith came into Islam from Jewish lore?

Tue, 02 Mar 2021 00:00:00 +0000

Did Yasir Qadhi himself say a hadith came into Islam from Jewish lore?

Mufti Abu Layth says Qadhi is inconsistent: he calls Israelite origins for the return preposterous, yet with Ibn Kathir firmly believes the Gog and Magog report came from Israelite lore through Abu Hurayra's circle.

Answer from 2 March 2021 · auto-transcribed, may contain errors

Kind: general teaching

Recording: Monday Nights with Mufti #204 | Q&A Unscripted & Unrestricted! 😉 | Mufti Abu Layth (at 1:50:26)

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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Do Muslim beliefs about the Mahdi, Jesus and Gog and Magog mirror Jewish messianic texts?

Tue, 02 Mar 2021 00:00:00 +0000

Do Muslim beliefs about the Mahdi, Jesus and Gog and Magog mirror Jewish messianic texts?

In the clip Qadhi sets out the Jewish belief in a minor and a major messiah alongside Gog and Magog, mirroring Muslim end-time beliefs; Mufti Abu Layth mocks his 'what a coincidence'.

Answer from 2 March 2021 · auto-transcribed, may contain errors

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

Recording: Monday Nights with Mufti #204 | Q&A Unscripted & Unrestricted! 😉 | Mufti Abu Layth (at 1:46:36)

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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Is Yasir Qadhi giving the whole picture on the Maliki scholars and Jesus's return?

Tue, 02 Mar 2021 00:00:00 +0000

Is Yasir Qadhi giving the whole picture on the Maliki scholars and Jesus's return?

Using Qadhi's own talk on Gog and Magog, Mufti Abu Layth says Qadhi tells half truths, citing the Maliki authorities without their view that the hadith on Jesus are not conclusively established.

Answer from 2 March 2021 · auto-transcribed, may contain errors

Kind: general teaching

Recording: Monday Nights with Mufti #204 | Q&A Unscripted & Unrestricted! 😉 | Mufti Abu Layth (at 1:42:06)

A more recent answer on dialogue/responses-to-critics/yasir-qadhi exists (13 April 2021): Where are the answers to the questions on the Jesus debate?

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Is the hadith that nobody will believe in Allah at the end of time authentic?

Tue, 02 Feb 2021 00:00:00 +0000

Is the hadith that nobody will believe in Allah at the end of time authentic?

Most end-times hadith are made up, Mufti Abu Layth says, citing Imam Ahmad on genres with no basis. Mufti Abu Layth says that most hadith to do with the end of times are usually made up.

Answer from 2 February 2021 · auto-transcribed, may contain errors

Kind: general teaching

Recording: Monday Nights with Mufti #200| Q&A Unscripted & Unrestricted! 😉 | Mufti Abu Layth (at 1:31:01)

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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A preacher's 'discoveries': Gog and Magog in Kyrgyzstan and Noah's ark at al-Judi

Tue, 12 Jan 2021 00:00:00 +0000

A preacher's 'discoveries': Gog and Magog in Kyrgyzstan and Noah's ark at al-Judi

Mockery of a preacher's claims to have located Gog and Magog in Kyrgyzstan and Noah's ark in Turkey.

Answer from 12 January 2021 · auto-transcribed, may contain errors

Recording: Monday Nights with Mufti #197 | Q&A Unscripted & Unrestricted! 😉 | Mufti Abu Layth (at 3:02:00)

A more recent answer on quran/stories-of-the-prophets exists (13 April 2021): What was the real crime of the people of Lut?

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Who was Dhul Qarnayn, and who are Gog and Magog?

Fri, 11 Dec 2020 00:00:00 +0000

Who was Dhul Qarnayn, and who are Gog and Magog?

Mufti Abu Layth identifies Dhul Qarnayn most likely with Cyrus the Great and reads Gog and Magog as havoc-wreaking forces, later the colonial powers; the guest says this already relies on ad hoc literary reinterpretation.

Answer from 11 December 2020 · auto-transcribed, may contain errors

Kind: general teaching

Recording: Dr Javad T. Hashmi | Axis of Morality & Archetypal Myths in the Quran | MindTrap 46 |Mufti Abu Layth (at 2:01:55)

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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Were the hadith about the black flags against the Abbasids?

Mon, 24 Aug 2020 00:00:00 +0000

Were the hadith about the black flags against the Abbasids?

Mufti Abu Layth doubts the black-flag hadith were anti-Abbasid; if anything, he says, they were part of Abbasid propaganda. Mufti Abu Layth says the hadith that the Mahdi's army will come with black flags were, if anything, part and parcel of Abbasid propaganda rather than directed against the Abbasids.

Answer from 24 August 2020 · auto-transcribed, may contain errors

Kind: general teaching

Recording: Monday Nights with Mufti #179 | Q&A Unscripted & Unrestricted! 😉 | Mufti Abu Layth (at 25:06)

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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Can Yasir Qadhi's zombie theory of Gog and Magog be defended?

Sun, 03 Nov 2019 00:00:00 +0000

Can Yasir Qadhi's zombie theory of Gog and Magog be defended?

Mufti Abu Layth says Qadhi's zombie theory, refuted even by Salafi critics, cannot be justified and should simply be disowned.

Answer from 3 November 2019 · auto-transcribed, may contain errors

Kind: general teaching

Recording: A Response to Yasir Qadhi on Miracles | Mufti Abu Layth (at 12:00)

A more recent answer on dialogue/responses-to-critics/yasir-qadhi exists (13 April 2021): Where are the answers to the questions on the Jesus debate?

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What are Ya'juj and Ma'juj (Gog and Magog), and could they be zombies?

Sun, 03 Nov 2019 00:00:00 +0000

What are Ya'juj and Ma'juj (Gog and Magog), and could they be zombies?

Qadhi rejected the traditional reading of Ya'juj and Ma'juj on geographical grounds and floated colonialism and zombies; Mufti Abu Layth says the colonial reading holds strongly for him and mocks the zombie idea. Mufti Abu Layth says he has said in the past that the colonial phenomenon holds a very strong interpretation of Ya'juj and Ma'juj for him.

Answer from 3 November 2019 · auto-transcribed, may contain errors

Kind: general teaching

Recording: A Response to Yasir Qadhi on Miracles | Mufti Abu Layth (at 6:22)

A more recent answer on dialogue/responses-to-critics/yasir-qadhi exists (13 April 2021): Where are the answers to the questions on the Jesus debate?

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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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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

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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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Why would Jesus need to come back at all?

Thu, 15 Mar 2018 00:00:00 +0000

Why would Jesus need to come back at all?

Mufti Abu Layth says the reasons given for a return do not hold together: the Dajjal simply melts, hatred of Jews contradicts Jesus's own message as a Jew preaching compassion, and killing pigs contradicts a report in Malik that Jesus was peaceful towards pigs. Mufti Abu Layth holds that the reasons given for Jesus's return, killing the Dajjal who simply melts, killing the Jews, and killing pigs, conflict with each other and with Jesus's own message, and that a report in Malik has Jesus peaceful towards pigs.

Answer from 15 March 2018 · auto-transcribed, may contain errors

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Recording: A response to Shadee Elmasry - Mufti Abu Layth al-Maliki (at 13:02)

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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Does Quran 43:61 say Jesus is the sign of the hour?

Thu, 15 Mar 2018 00:00:00 +0000

Does Quran 43:61 say Jesus is the sign of the hour?

No: Hasan al-Basri read 'knowledge of the hour' as the Quran, others as the Prophet, and the verse says knowledge, not sign, so the critics must interpret it too. Mufti Abu Layth adds that the Mahdi was also called mutawatir by Ibn Hajar, al-Shawkani and others yet is absent from al-Tahawi's creed. Mufti Abu Layth holds that 43:61 does not state that Jesus is the sign of the hour, that the critics contradict themselves by invoking mutawatir and consensus claims they reject elsewhere, and that the second-coming narrative reads exactly from the Gospels.

Answer from 15 March 2018 · auto-transcribed, may contain errors

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Recording: A response to Shadee Elmasry - Mufti Abu Layth al-Maliki (at 10:26)

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 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

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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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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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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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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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