Mufti Abu Layth Archive: dialogue/responses-to-critics

Donors, deathbed remarks and 'no hatred': an invitation to the critic

2021-04-06T00:00:00Z

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.

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

Recording: Monday Nights with Mufti #209 | Q&A Unscripted & Unrestricted! 😉 | Mufti Abu Layth (at 3:45:06)

A more recent answer on wellbeing/anger-and-forgiveness exists (19 August 2022): What does holding on to bitterness do to a person?

Watch on YouTube at 3:45:06 · Open the segment

Did Jesus survive the crucifixion?

2021-04-06T00:00:00Z

Did Jesus survive the crucifixion?

Mufti Abu Layth reads the cradle verse as the priests' indignation at being debated by a boy, and says Jesus was taken down from the cross alive after a few hours, which he finds more plausible than a substitute transformed to look like him.

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 3:40:28)

A more recent answer on quran/stories-of-the-prophets/jesus exists (19 February 2022): What do you think of the rational readings of the Quran on the Marvelous Quran channel?

Watch on YouTube at 3:40:28 · Open the segment

Was Solomon's hudhud really a bird?

2021-04-06T00:00:00Z

Was Solomon's hudhud really a bird?

The hudhud is addressed in Arabic forms used only for humans, so Mufti Abu Layth reads it as a person, perhaps an agent of Solomon's intelligence service, and he rejects a reading that makes a prophet steal a throne.

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 3:36:01)

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

Watch on YouTube at 3:36:01 · Open the segment

Did Noah really live 950 years?

2021-04-06T00:00:00Z

Did Noah really live 950 years?

Noah's 950 years refers to an ancient counting system like those of the Sumerian king lists, signalled by the verse's unusual wording, not to ordinary years; he never said the Quran copied an error from the Bible.

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 3:14:46)

A more recent answer on history/ancient-near-east-and-scripture exists (15 May 2021): Is there archaeological evidence for David's kingdom, and how did Jerusalem become holy for Muslims?

Watch on YouTube at 3:15:33 · Open the segment

Does Mufti Abu Layth have any scholarly precedent for his views?

2021-04-06T00:00:00Z

Does Mufti Abu Layth have any scholarly precedent for his views?

His views have respected precedents: al-Burzuli, a Maliki Shaykh al-Islam, held that punishments change with the age, and the subcontinent scholars he quotes were Ahl al-Hadith, not heretics. Not every untrue statement is a sin punished with hell.

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 3:10:56)

Watch on YouTube at 3:10:56 · Open the segment

A critic's reaction video: the Wahhabi jibe and the setup

2021-04-06T00:00:00Z

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.

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

Recording: Monday Nights with Mufti #209 | Q&A Unscripted & Unrestricted! 😉 | Mufti Abu Layth (at 3:06:48)

A more recent answer on belief/sectarianism-and-takfir/salafism-and-wahhabism exists (19 August 2022): What does the Mufti think of Ibn Taymiyya and Muhammad ibn Abd al-Wahhab?

Watch on YouTube at 3:06:48 · Open the segment

Jealousy, entitlement and the critics who resent his following

2021-04-06T00:00:00Z

Jealousy, entitlement and the critics who resent his following

Mufti Abu Layth says much of the hostility he receives comes from jealousy and a sense of entitlement among critics who resent his following.

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

Recording: Monday Nights with Mufti #209 | Q&A Unscripted & Unrestricted! 😉 | Mufti Abu Layth (at 36:02)

A more recent answer on dialogue/the-mufti-and-the-channel exists (18 May 2021): Response to accusations over Palestine remarks and claims he is not Muslim

Watch on YouTube at 36:02 · Open the segment

Reply to Mufti Mangera: does the ban on muthla forbid piercing?

2021-03-10T00:00:00Z

Reply to Mufti Mangera: does the ban on muthla forbid piercing?

The clip cites the ban on muthla (mutilation) against piercing; Mufti Abu Layth explains that muthla means disfiguring bodies, especially of the dead, and mocks applying it to ear piercing.

Answer from 10 March 2021 · auto-transcribed, may contain errors

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

Recording: Reply to Mufti Abdurrahman Ibn Yusuf on Ear Piercing | Mufti Abu Layth (at 3:40)

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

Watch on YouTube at 3:40 · Open the segment

Reply to Mufti Mangera on ear piercing: who defines normal and decent?

2021-03-10T00:00:00Z

Reply to Mufti Mangera on ear piercing: who defines normal and decent?

A played clip of Mufti Mangera allowing one or two ear piercings as 'normal' among decent people but not higher ones, which Mufti Abu Layth mocks for leaving undefined who decides what is normal.

Answer from 10 March 2021 · auto-transcribed, may contain errors

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

Recording: Reply to Mufti Abdurrahman Ibn Yusuf on Ear Piercing | Mufti Abu Layth (at 0:00)

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

Watch on YouTube at 0:00 · Open the segment

Did the Prophet say he would kill the lineage of the first Khariji?

2021-02-22T00:00:00Z

Did the Prophet say he would kill the lineage of the first Khariji?

Mufti Abu Layth says the speaker, carried away defending the Saudi rulers, attributed to the Prophet words he did not say: in the hadith the Prophet stopped Umar from killing the man. Respect for the Prophet comes before kings.

Answer from 22 February 2021 · auto-transcribed, may contain errors

Kind: general teaching

Recording: Ustadh Abdul Rahman Hassan Misquoting Hadith & Invite Challenge | Mufti Abu Layth (at 5:30)

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?

Watch on YouTube at 6:10 · Open the segment

Abdul Rahman Hassan's clip: the first Khariji, protest, and never criticising rulers

2021-02-22T00:00:00Z

Abdul Rahman Hassan's clip: the first Khariji, protest, and never criticising rulers

Mufti Abu Layth plays and mocks a clip in which Abdul Rahman Hassan presents protest against rulers as the mentality of the first Khariji, reading it as a defence of the Saudi rulers.

Answer from 22 February 2021 · auto-transcribed, may contain errors

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

Recording: Ustadh Abdul Rahman Hassan Misquoting Hadith & Invite Challenge | Mufti Abu Layth (at 0:02)

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 0:02 · Open the segment

Is drinking poison haram in Islam?

2021-02-16T00:00:00Z

Is drinking poison haram in Islam?

Drinking poison is categorically haram, he says, so it is inconsistent to call DMT haram while justifying publicly drinking poison. Mufti Abu Layth says drinking poison is categorically haram in Islam, with no ifs or buts.

Answer from 16 February 2021 · auto-transcribed, may contain errors

Kind: general teaching

Recording: Monday Nights with Mufti #202| Q&A Unscripted & Unrestricted! 😉 | Mufti Abu Layth (at 3:10:59)

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

Watch on YouTube at 3:10:59 · Open the segment

The preacher on DMT: 'no proof of the unseen', and tahajjud instead

2021-02-16T00:00:00Z

The preacher on DMT: 'no proof of the unseen', and tahajjud instead

Mufti Abu Layth ridicules the preacher's claim that there is no scientific proof DMT users reach the unseen, asking what such proof could even look like.

Answer from 16 February 2021 · auto-transcribed, may contain errors

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

Recording: Monday Nights with Mufti #202| Q&A Unscripted & Unrestricted! 😉 | Mufti Abu Layth (at 2:59:48)

A more recent answer on fiqh/intoxicants-and-substances/psychedelics exists (30 August 2021): Is a DMT ego death the same as the Sufi idea of fana?

Watch on YouTube at 2:59:48 · Open the segment

Is cannabis an intoxicant like alcohol in Islam?

2021-02-16T00:00:00Z

Is cannabis an intoxicant like alcohol in Islam?

Mufti Abu Layth says marijuana is not an intoxicant in the way alcohol is, and accuses the preacher of not understanding the difference between psychoactive substances and intoxicants.

Answer from 16 February 2021 · auto-transcribed, may contain errors

Kind: general teaching

Recording: Monday Nights with Mufti #202| Q&A Unscripted & Unrestricted! 😉 | Mufti Abu Layth (at 2:54:22)

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

Watch on YouTube at 2:55:00 · Open the segment

Did Abu Hanifa allow nabidh only as medicine?

2021-02-16T00:00:00Z

Did Abu Hanifa allow nabidh only as medicine?

Mufti Abu Layth says the reports Abu Hanifa's school transmitted, of Umar and Ibn Mas'ud drinking and diluting nabidh, are about drinking with food, not medicine.

Answer from 16 February 2021 · auto-transcribed, may contain errors

Kind: general teaching

Recording: Monday Nights with Mufti #202| Q&A Unscripted & Unrestricted! 😉 | Mufti Abu Layth (at 2:41:57)

A more recent answer on fiqh/madhhabs-and-following/hanafi-school exists (10 December 2022): What did Abu Hanifa say about Imam Malik?

Watch on YouTube at 2:47:32 · Open the segment

Did Maliki scholars really allow fines instead of hudud punishments?

2021-02-09T00:00:00Z

Did Maliki scholars really allow fines instead of hudud punishments?

Mufti Abu Layth says the Maliki fatwa allowing punishment through wealth was the work of a major scholar and was practised as law for centuries, not a forgotten opinion. Mufti Abu Layth says the fatwa on punishing with wealth that he cites was acted upon as the law and understood as the sharia for hundreds of years.

Answer from 9 February 2021 · auto-transcribed, may contain errors

Kind: general teaching

Recording: Monday Nights with Mufti #201| Q&A Unscripted & Unrestricted! 😉 | Mufti Abu Layth (at 3:05:51)

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

Watch on YouTube at 3:05:51 · Open the segment

Why do critics keep attacking Shabir Ally?

2021-02-09T00:00:00Z

Why do critics keep attacking Shabir Ally?

Mufti Abu Layth says the critics target Shabir Ally as a soft target who will not hit back, and repeats his offer to debate them.

Answer from 9 February 2021 · auto-transcribed, may contain errors

Kind: general teaching

Recording: Monday Nights with Mufti #201| Q&A Unscripted & Unrestricted! 😉 | Mufti Abu Layth (at 2:59:51)

A more recent answer on dialogue/debate-challenges-and-reviews exists (13 April 2021): Did Dr Abdul Majid refute Mufti Abu Layth's BukhariGate arguments?

Watch on YouTube at 2:59:51 · Open the segment

Clips: three critics' videos attacking Shabir Ally

2021-02-09T00:00:00Z

Clips: three critics' videos attacking Shabir Ally

Mufti Abu Layth plays and mocks videos in which three critics attack Shabir Ally's views, including his view on hudud.

Answer from 9 February 2021 · auto-transcribed, may contain errors

Recording: Monday Nights with Mufti #201| Q&A Unscripted & Unrestricted! 😉 | Mufti Abu Layth (at 2:48:08)

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

Watch on YouTube at 2:48:08 · Open the segment

What happened between Mufti Abu Layth and a Moroccan shaykh?

2021-02-09T00:00:00Z

What happened between Mufti Abu Layth and a Moroccan shaykh?

Mufti Abu Layth says a Moroccan shaykh he once visited later called him deviant, and he responded by pointing to the shaykh's past conviction.

Answer from 9 February 2021 · auto-transcribed, may contain errors

Kind: general teaching

Recording: Monday Nights with Mufti #201| Q&A Unscripted & Unrestricted! 😉 | Mufti Abu Layth (at 2:15:07)

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

Watch on YouTube at 2:15:07 · Open the segment

Debate invitations to Abdul Rahman Hassan and 'Danny boy'

2021-02-09T00:00:00Z

Debate invitations to Abdul Rahman Hassan and 'Danny boy'

Mufti Abu Layth invites Abdul Rahman Hassan to defend Salafi creed and 'Danny boy' to define ijma', saying critics pick on Shabir Ally instead.

Answer from 9 February 2021 · auto-transcribed, may contain errors

Recording: Monday Nights with Mufti #201| Q&A Unscripted & Unrestricted! 😉 | Mufti Abu Layth (at 1:12:41)

A more recent answer on dialogue/debate-challenges-and-reviews exists (13 April 2021): Did Dr Abdul Majid refute Mufti Abu Layth's BukhariGate arguments?

Watch on YouTube at 1:12:41 · Open the segment

Did Shadee Elmasry mistranslate Ibn Ashur on purpose?

2021-02-02T00:00:00Z

Did Shadee Elmasry mistranslate Ibn Ashur on purpose?

Mufti Abu Layth says the mistranslation shows either incompetence in Arabic or deliberate misleading.

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

Kind: general teaching

Recording: Messiah, Masri & Misquotations | Mufti Abu Layth (at 21:10)

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?

Watch on YouTube at 21:10 · Open the segment

Did Ibn Ashur say nothing in the Quran goes against the second coming of Jesus?

2021-02-02T00:00:00Z

Did Ibn Ashur say nothing in the Quran goes against the second coming of Jesus?

Mufti Abu Layth says Ibn Ashur wrote that the Quran does not deal with the second coming, not that nothing in it opposes it; the post confused yata'arrad with a verb meaning 'to oppose'. Mufti Abu Layth says that in Ibn Ashur's words the Quran does not deal with the second coming when it counts out the blessings of Jesus, rather than saying nothing in the Quran opposes it.

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

Kind: general teaching

Recording: Messiah, Masri & Misquotations | Mufti Abu Layth (at 13:20)

A more recent answer on quran/arabic-language exists (18 October 2025): Is the 'light' that came with the clear book in 5:15 the Prophet or the Quran itself?

Watch on YouTube at 15:02 · Open the segment

Did Ibn Ashur say Muslims must believe Jesus was raised alive?

2021-02-02T00:00:00Z

Did Ibn Ashur say Muslims must believe Jesus was raised alive?

Mufti Abu Layth shows that Ibn Ashur, quoted in Shadee Elmasry's post, held only that Jesus was not killed or crucified and was raised and saved, leaving how it happened open to interpretation.

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

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

Recording: Messiah, Masri & Misquotations | Mufti Abu Layth (at 0:00)

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

Watch on YouTube at 6:15 · Open the segment

Would the Mufti make peace with Farid?

2021-01-26T00:00:00Z

Would the Mufti make peace with Farid?

Mufti Abu Layth says he holds no hatred for Farid and would return respect if shown it, but answers public takfir against him with mockery and sees no reason to stop.

Answer from 26 January 2021 · auto-transcribed, may contain errors

Kind: general teaching

Recording: Monday Nights with Mufti #199 | Q&A Unscripted & Unrestricted! 😉 | Mufti Abu Layth (at 1:52:26)

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 1:52:26 · Open the segment

An invitation to Sunni Defence, bad blood with Farid, and interrupting in debates

2021-01-26T00:00:00Z

An invitation to Sunni Defence, bad blood with Farid, and interrupting in debates

Mufti Abu Layth invites a presenter of Sunni Defence to discuss BukhariGate on MindTrap, describes the bad blood with Farid, and defends occasional interruptions in debate.

Answer from 26 January 2021 · auto-transcribed, may contain errors

Recording: Monday Nights with Mufti #199 | Q&A Unscripted & Unrestricted! 😉 | Mufti Abu Layth (at 1:37:45)

A more recent answer on dialogue/debate-challenges-and-reviews exists (13 April 2021): Did Dr Abdul Majid refute Mufti Abu Layth's BukhariGate arguments?

Watch on YouTube at 1:37:45 · Open the segment

Does the Quran say nothing against Jesus' second coming?

2021-01-19T00:00:00Z

Does the Quran say nothing against Jesus' second coming?

Mufti Abu Layth says the post mistranslates the tafsir: it says the Quran does not address the second coming, not that nothing in the Quran opposes it.

Answer from 19 January 2021 · auto-transcribed, may contain errors

Kind: general teaching

Recording: Monday Nights with Mufti #198 | Q&A Unscripted & Unrestricted! 😉 | Mufti Abu Layth (at 2:58:04)

A more recent answer on quran/arabic-language exists (18 October 2025): Is the 'light' that came with the clear book in 5:15 the Prophet or the Quran itself?

Watch on YouTube at 2:58:04 · Open the segment

Did Ibn Ashur say Jesus was raised alive and will return?

2021-01-19T00:00:00Z

Did Ibn Ashur say Jesus was raised alive and will return?

Mufti Abu Layth says a preacher's post misquotes the tafsir it cites, which takes the verse to mean Jesus really died and leaves how he was raised open to interpretation.

Answer from 19 January 2021 · auto-transcribed, may contain errors

Kind: general teaching

Recording: Monday Nights with Mufti #198 | Q&A Unscripted & Unrestricted! 😉 | Mufti Abu Layth (at 2:45:11)

A more recent answer on quran/stories-of-the-prophets/jesus exists (19 February 2022): What do you think of the rational readings of the Quran on the Marvelous Quran channel?

Watch on YouTube at 2:45:11 · Open the segment

'Danny Boy's' Telegram post calling female academics 'snarling witches'

2021-01-19T00:00:00Z

'Danny Boy's' Telegram post calling female academics 'snarling witches'

Mufti Abu Layth mocks a commentator's post calling female Islamic Studies academics 'snarling witches', and says men who block women's education are insecure.

Answer from 19 January 2021 · auto-transcribed, may contain errors

Recording: Monday Nights with Mufti #198 | Q&A Unscripted & Unrestricted! 😉 | Mufti Abu Layth (at 1:49:09)

A more recent answer on society/women-and-gender exists (10 March 2023): Who carried on Imam Malik's teaching after him?

Watch on YouTube at 1:49:09 · Open the segment

Who is Dr Abdul Majid, your Mind Trap guest?

2021-01-19T00:00:00Z

Who is Dr Abdul Majid, your Mind Trap guest?

Mufti Abu Layth will discuss BukhariGate with Dr Abdul Majid on Mind Trap, despite past hostile videos, and hopes it will be positive. Mufti Abu Layth says swearing is not haram.

Answer from 19 January 2021 · auto-transcribed, may contain errors

Kind: general teaching

Recording: Monday Nights with Mufti #198 | Q&A Unscripted & Unrestricted! 😉 | Mufti Abu Layth (at 47:58)

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?

Watch on YouTube at 47:58 · Open the segment

Dr Abdul Majid's response to BukhariGate, and an invitation to Mind Trap

2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

Dr Abdul Majid's response to BukhariGate, and an invitation to Mind Trap

Mufti Abu Layth has invited Dr Abdul Majid onto Mind Trap to discuss BukhariGate, and says he found no actual refutation in the response he watched.

Answer from 5 January 2021 · auto-transcribed, may contain errors

Recording: Monday Nights with Mufti #196 | Q&A Unscripted & Unrestricted! 😉 | Mufti Abu Layth (at 10:15)

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?

Watch on YouTube at 10:15 · Open the segment

Mufti Abu Layth mocks a critic's clip on intimacy and slit bedsheets

2020-10-27T00:00:00Z

Mufti Abu Layth mocks a critic's clip on intimacy and slit bedsheets

Mufti Abu Layth ridicules a critic's story that intimacy was once seen as so foul that couples used slit bedsheets.

Answer from 27 October 2020 · auto-transcribed, may contain errors

Recording: Monday Nights with Mufti #188 | Q&A Unscripted & Unrestricted! 😉 | Mufti Abu Layth (at 3:11:27)

A more recent answer on relationships/marriage/intimacy exists (13 April 2021): Are many people's frustrations really about unmet sexual needs?

Watch on YouTube at 3:11:27 · Open the segment

Did Imam Malik say that Jesus died?

2020-10-27T00:00:00Z

Did Imam Malik say that Jesus died?

Mufti Abu Layth says there is no Quranic verse on a second coming and that the Imam Malik report of Jesus's death is in a reliable Maliki source.

Answer from 27 October 2020 · auto-transcribed, may contain errors

Kind: general teaching

Recording: Monday Nights with Mufti #188 | Q&A Unscripted & Unrestricted! 😉 | Mufti Abu Layth (at 3:00:20)

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

Watch on YouTube at 3:03:26 · Open the segment

Is the second coming of Jesus the right answer to the Qadianis?

2020-10-27T00:00:00Z

Is the second coming of Jesus the right answer to the Qadianis?

Mufti Abu Layth says that the real answer to the Qadiani claim is that no messiah is coming, not a defence of the second coming. Mufti Abu Layth says that people like him do not believe in awaiting a messiah.

Answer from 27 October 2020 · auto-transcribed, may contain errors

Kind: general teaching

Recording: Monday Nights with Mufti #188 | Q&A Unscripted & Unrestricted! 😉 | Mufti Abu Layth (at 2:53:59)

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 2:53:59 · Open the segment

Is a skin fade haircut haram?

2020-09-22T00:00:00Z

Is a skin fade haircut haram?

Mufti Abu Layth says hairstyles are fine and rejects Dawah Man's claim that a zero-blade fade is haram, asking why God would be obsessed with hair. Mufti Abu Layth says it is okay to grow your hair and, when you do, to have a hairstyle.

Answer from 22 September 2020 · auto-transcribed, may contain errors

Kind: general teaching

Recording: Monday Nights with Mufti #183 | Q&A Unscripted & Unrestricted! 😉 | Mufti Abu Layth (at 2:13:43)

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

Watch on YouTube at 2:16:07 · Open the segment

Will there be a video on the Zaydi and Ibadi sects?

2020-08-04T00:00:00Z

Will there be a video on the Zaydi and Ibadi sects?

Mufti Abu Layth says the agreement of Sunnis, Shia and Ibadis, who would never have conspired together, supports the Kaaba being where it always was. Mufti Abu Layth says the Sunnis, the Shia and the Ibadis, who cannot tolerate each other, would never have co-conspired over the original Kaaba and would have exposed each other.

Answer from 4 August 2020 · auto-transcribed, may contain errors

Kind: general teaching

Recording: Monday Nights with Mufti Abu Layth #176 *Q&A Unscripted & Unrestricted!* 🤣 (at 20:06)

A more recent answer on history/umayyads-and-abbasids exists (10 March 2023): Why was Imam Malik flogged?

Watch on YouTube at 20:06 · Open the segment

Message to critics: criticise truthfully, not with lies

2020-04-07T00:00:00Z

Message to critics: criticise truthfully, not with lies

Mufti Abu Layth believes in Allah and His Messenger but rejects folkloric, medieval readings of Islam. He asks critics to attack his real views, not lies. Mufti Abu Layth says he does not accept folkloric, medievalist interpretations of Islam, which he feels are not compatible with this day and age.

Answer from 7 April 2020 · auto-transcribed, may contain errors

Kind: general teaching

Recording: Misrepresenting Mufti | Mufti Abu Layth (at 12:46)

A more recent answer on society/islam-and-modernity exists (19 August 2022): Should all religions be free to compete without state backing?

Watch on YouTube at 12:46 · Open the segment

Does the Mufti teach disrespect for the Prophet?

2020-04-07T00:00:00Z

Does the Mufti teach disrespect for the Prophet?

No: he says he has repeatedly defended the Prophet, denying that he married a child and rejecting narrations he finds insulting. Those accusing him took none of these stances. Mufti Abu Layth says he has stood up for years and said that the Prophet did not marry a child.

Answer from 7 April 2020 · auto-transcribed, may contain errors

Kind: general teaching

Recording: Misrepresenting Mufti | Mufti Abu Layth (at 8:19)

A more recent answer on history/sirah/age-of-aisha exists (18 October 2025): Why does Mufti Abu Layth see the Quran-only movement as a reaction of anger?

Watch on YouTube at 8:19 · Open the segment

Do the prophets' bodies decay in the grave?

2020-04-07T00:00:00Z

Do the prophets' bodies decay in the grave?

Mufti Abu Layth did not teach that the prophets' bodies decay: he read out a question and described a devotional and a factual approach, noting most Muslims take the devotional one. He says critics who present it as disrespect to the Prophet are lying.

Answer from 7 April 2020 · auto-transcribed, may contain errors

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

Recording: Misrepresenting Mufti | Mufti Abu Layth (at 1:19)

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?

Watch on YouTube at 1:19 · Open the segment

Does Abul Kalam Azad praising Mirza Ghulam Ahmad prove anything?

2020-03-31T00:00:00Z

Does Abul Kalam Azad praising Mirza Ghulam Ahmad prove anything?

Abul Kalam Azad may well have spoken kindly of Mirza Ghulam Ahmad, as people who knew and liked a decent man would. Mufti Abu Layth finds it illogical that the critics accept a prophet who achieved nothing yet call his view that tattoos are not haram absurd. Mufti Abu Layth says Abul Kalam Azad may well have spoken kindly of Mirza Ghulam Ahmad, since Mirza may have been a decent person and people who knew and liked him would be expected to say nice things about him.

Answer from 31 March 2020 · auto-transcribed, may contain errors

Kind: general teaching

Recording: Responding to Qadiani Trolls | Mufti Abu Layth (at 1:21)

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Should Muslims build bridges with ex-Muslims?

2019-09-19T00:00:00Z

Should Muslims build bridges with ex-Muslims?

Yes: he hopes Muslims can talk with ex-Muslims and critics as fellow human beings, as the early converts were won by human connection. He contrasts this with a preacher who refused any friendship with them. Mufti Abu Layth says he hopes Muslims can build bridges with ex-Muslims and anyone who has issues with Islam, since we are human beings first and foremost.

Answer from 19 September 2019 · auto-transcribed, may contain errors

Kind: general teaching

Recording: A reply to Asadulah Al-Andalusi on the age of Aisha (r) | Mufti Abu Layth (at 0:00)

A more recent answer on dialogue/atheists-and-polemicists exists (13 April 2021): Are there answers to the hardest ethical questions about stories in the Quran?

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Which scholars held that music is permissible, and what did Imam Malik's school say?

2019-09-18T00:00:00Z

Which scholars held that music is permissible, and what did Imam Malik's school say?

Al-Shawkani, Ibn Hazm, Abu Bakr ibn al-Arabi and al-Fakihani all found no sahih hadith prohibiting music, and the people of Madinah, including the qadi Sa'd ibn Ibrahim, held it permissible, with some transmitting this as Imam Malik's own position. Only Allah and His Messenger are authorities, so a refutation needs a sahih hadith. Mufti Abu Layth holds that there is no sahih hadith prohibiting music, citing al-Shawkani, Ibn Hazm, Abu Bakr ibn al-Arabi and al-Fakihani, and that since only Allah and His Messenger are authorities in religion, anyone refuting him must bring a sahih hadith.

Answer from 18 September 2019 · auto-transcribed, may contain errors

Kind: general teaching

Recording: In Depth: Is Music allowed in Islam? | Mufti Abu Layth (at 2:41)

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

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Is the hadith that singing breeds hypocrisy in the heart authentic?

2019-09-18T00:00:00Z

Is the hadith that singing breeds hypocrisy in the heart authentic?

The hadith that singing breeds hypocrisy in the heart is weak in every one of its chains, which run from Ibn Mas'ud to the Prophet in some versions and stop at Ibn Mas'ud in others. Mufti Abu Layth restates that nothing categorically proves music haram and that lyrics do not make it so. Mufti Abu Layth says nothing categorically proves music to be haram and that lyrics do not make something haram even when they speak of sex or fighting, though one may not want to listen to them or let one's children do so.

Answer from 18 September 2019 · auto-transcribed, may contain errors

Kind: general teaching

Recording: In Depth: Is Music allowed in Islam? | Mufti Abu Layth (at 0:04)

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

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Why did medieval scholars like al-Nawawi write that boys are prettier than women?

2019-08-21T00:00:00Z

Why did medieval scholars like al-Nawawi write that boys are prettier than women?

Mufti Abu Layth says al-Nawawi voiced a sentiment of his age, shared by many medieval Muslims and by the Greeks, in which attraction to adolescent boys was assumed; reporting this is not mockery. A Saudi critic's reply that many women are ugly, he says, proves the point. Mufti Abu Layth holds that Imam al-Nawawi was articulating the sentiment of his age, in which, as among the ancient Greeks, attraction to adolescent boys was taken as a given, and that reporting this from his book is not mockery.

Answer from 21 August 2019 · auto-transcribed, may contain errors

Kind: general teaching

Recording: A Reply to Shaykh Muhammad Al-Yaqoubi on Sahih Al-Bukhari| Mufti Abu layth (at 16:59)

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Did Mufti Abu Layth mock Imam al-Nawawi?

2019-08-21T00:00:00Z

Did Mufti Abu Layth mock Imam al-Nawawi?

Mufti Abu Layth says he did not mock al-Nawawi but read his own words, which assume as a given that young boys are prettier than many women and that anyone would be tempted by them. Al-Yaqoubi, he says, should have watched the whole video before judging.

Answer from 21 August 2019 · auto-transcribed, may contain errors

Kind: general teaching

Recording: A Reply to Shaykh Muhammad Al-Yaqoubi on Sahih Al-Bukhari| Mufti Abu layth (at 13:09)

A more recent answer on relationships/sexuality-and-orientation exists (22 February 2023): Is it okay for adults or children to change gender?

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Opening: al-Yaqoubi's heated public remarks about Mufti Abu Layth, and the title 'His Eminence'

2019-08-21T00:00:00Z

Opening: al-Yaqoubi's heated public remarks about Mufti Abu Layth, and the title 'His Eminence'

Al-Yaqoubi criticised Mufti Abu Layth in a public gathering for mocking al-Nawawi, for his remarks on homosexuality and for calling himself a mufti; Mufti says he was surprised and partly flattered, and teases the title 'His Eminence'.

Answer from 21 August 2019 · auto-transcribed, may contain errors

Recording: A Reply to Shaykh Muhammad Al-Yaqoubi on Sahih Al-Bukhari| Mufti Abu layth (at 0:00)

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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Is the Quran's description of paradise and hell literal or symbolic?

2019-08-21T00:00:00Z

Is the Quran's description of paradise and hell literal or symbolic?

Mufti Abu Layth reads the Quran's imagery of the afterlife as symbolic, chosen to resonate with the people it was revealed to, while holding that life continues after this world. Allah also describes himself in imagery, and people are free to disagree. Mufti Abu Layth holds that the imagery of the afterlife in the Quran is symbolic, chosen to appeal to the people it was revealed to, while there is a real continuity beyond this life that no human can conceptualise, and he says people are free to disagree with this reading.

Answer from 21 August 2019 · auto-transcribed, may contain errors

Kind: general teaching

Recording: Don't let people bully you into beliefs | Mufti Abu Layth (at 2:38)

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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5Pillars' coverage of Mufti Abu Layth and its article claiming he denies the afterlife

2019-08-21T00:00:00Z

5Pillars' coverage of Mufti Abu Layth and its article claiming he denies the afterlife

Mufti Abu Layth reacts to a 5Pillars article claiming he does not believe in the afterlife, which drew on a clip of him calling the Quran's afterlife imagery symbolic. He says no press is bad press and that he has addressed the issue in many videos.

Answer from 21 August 2019 · auto-transcribed, may contain errors

Recording: Don't let people bully you into beliefs | Mufti Abu Layth (at 0:00)

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Have Muslims really kept women out of mosques for 1,400 years?

2019-05-04T00:00:00Z

Have Muslims really kept women out of mosques for 1,400 years?

No: women prayed in mosques from the Prophet's time on and classical scholars held many such views, so the '1,400 years' claim fails; Mufti Abu Layth doubts Haqiqatjou's scholarly training.

Answer from 4 May 2019 · auto-transcribed, may contain errors

Kind: general teaching

Recording: Daniel Haqiqatjou and Women praying in the Wardrobe -Mufti Abu Layth (at 31:44)

A more recent answer on society/women-and-gender exists (10 March 2023): Who carried on Imam Malik's teaching after him?

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Does a hadith tell women to pray in a closet?

2019-05-04T00:00:00Z

Does a hadith tell women to pray in a closet?

No: the word makhda' means an inner sleeping chamber, not a closet, and such rooms were dark only because houses had no lamps. Mufti Abu Layth says the makhda' in these reports was the sleeping chamber within the inner part of a house, not a closet or cupboard.

Answer from 4 May 2019 · auto-transcribed, may contain errors

Kind: general teaching

Recording: Daniel Haqiqatjou and Women praying in the Wardrobe -Mufti Abu Layth (at 5:33)

A more recent answer on quran/arabic-language exists (18 October 2025): Is the 'light' that came with the clear book in 5:15 the Prophet or the Quran itself?

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Daniel Haqiqatjou's post that praying in a closet is a Sunnah for women

2019-05-04T00:00:00Z

Daniel Haqiqatjou's post that praying in a closet is a Sunnah for women

Daniel Haqiqatjou's post claimed that a woman praying in a closet revives a Sunnah and that this is better for her than praying in the Prophet's mosque.

Answer from 4 May 2019 · auto-transcribed, may contain errors

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

Recording: Daniel Haqiqatjou and Women praying in the Wardrobe -Mufti Abu Layth (at 0:00)

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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Who should I listen to about political ideas in Islam?

2018-09-03T00:00:00Z

Who should I listen to about political ideas in Islam?

Anyone speaking about ideas in Islam should at least be a scholar; he warns young people away from caliphate groups and points to Hamza Yusuf's lecture calling the caliphate a myth. Mufti Abu Layth says anyone who wants to speak about ideas within Islam should at least be a scholar, though they can still be wrong.

Answer from 3 September 2018 · auto-transcribed, may contain errors

Kind: general teaching

Recording: Response to Abdullah al Andalusi (at 18:31)

A more recent answer on society/education-and-madrasas/how-to-study-islam exists (10 March 2023): Is studying religious knowledge better than voluntary prayer?

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Reply to Abdullah al-Andalusi: the 'white saviour' and the caliphate

2018-09-03T00:00:00Z

Reply to Abdullah al-Andalusi: the 'white saviour' and the caliphate

Mufti Abu Layth mocks Abdullah al-Andalusi's call to establish the caliphate as a 'white saviour complex', while praising converts who devoted themselves to study.

Answer from 3 September 2018 · auto-transcribed, may contain errors

Kind: general teaching

Recording: Response to Abdullah al Andalusi (at 0:00)

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Can Sahih al-Bukhari be proven to go back to Imam al-Bukhari?

2018-08-03T00:00:00Z

Can Sahih al-Bukhari be proven to go back to Imam al-Bukhari?

Mufti Abu Layth says it cannot be proven beyond reasonable doubt: the printed Sultaniyya rests on the lost Yuniniyya, the copies disagree, al-Saghani's claimed copy of Farabri's text is unseen, and Farabri himself was vouched for only centuries later. He challenges his critics to prove otherwise. Mufti Abu Layth holds that Sahih al-Bukhari cannot be proven beyond reasonable doubt to go back to Imam al-Bukhari, since the Sultaniyya edition rests on the lost Yuniniyya, the recensions disagree, and the book's transmission depends on Farabri, whom no contemporary vouched for.

Answer from 3 August 2018 · auto-transcribed, may contain errors

Kind: general teaching

Recording: Reply to Sunni (Wahhabi) Defence Pt. IV -Mufti Abu Layth (at 9:05)

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Is there an authentic hadith that a wife may never refuse her husband sex?

2018-08-03T00:00:00Z

Is there an authentic hadith that a wife may never refuse her husband sex?

Mufti Abu Layth says no version of the report that a wife cannot refuse her husband is free of criticism, since its chains run through al-A'mash and Qatada and carry hidden defects. He challenges his critics to produce one that cannot be faulted. Mufti Abu Layth says that the report that a woman may not refuse her husband cannot be attributed to the Prophet without blasphemy, and challenges his critics to bring one version of it whose chain he cannot show to carry weakness or hidden defects.

Answer from 3 August 2018 · auto-transcribed, may contain errors

Kind: general teaching

Recording: Reply to Sunni (Wahhabi) Defence Pt. IV -Mufti Abu Layth (at 3:50)

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 does Mufti Abu Layth call the Sunni Defence channel blasphemous?

2018-08-03T00:00:00Z

Why does Mufti Abu Layth call the Sunni Defence channel blasphemous?

Mufti Abu Layth says the group's own words, asking what is wrong with the Prophet being sexually impotent and defending the report of Musa running naked, are blasphemous. That, he says, is why he described them as he did.

Answer from 3 August 2018 · auto-transcribed, may contain errors

Kind: general teaching

Recording: Reply to Sunni (Wahhabi) Defence Pt. IV -Mufti Abu Layth (at 0:00)

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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What is the point of checking a hadith's chain of narrators?

2018-07-08T00:00:00Z

What is the point of checking a hadith's chain of narrators?

Chain criticism exists only to judge whether a hadith's content is sound; content against reason, the Quran or Islam's principles is a problem. Treating Bukhari as infallible is nonsense. Mufti Abu Layth says chain criticism was not a goal in itself but was only invented to know whether the content of a hadith was sound.

Answer from 8 July 2018 · auto-transcribed, may contain errors

Kind: general teaching

Recording: Reply to Sunni (Wahhabi) Defence Pt. II -Mufti Abu Layth (at 13:53)

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Was al-A'mash a reliable hadith narrator?

2018-07-08T00:00:00Z

Was al-A'mash a reliable hadith narrator?

Mufti Abu Layth cites classical critics who say al-A'mash committed tadlis, sometimes hiding weak narrators, and made many mistakes. This does not mean every narration of his in Bukhari and Muslim is weak.

Answer from 8 July 2018 · auto-transcribed, may contain errors

Kind: general teaching

Recording: Reply to Sunni (Wahhabi) Defence Pt. II -Mufti Abu Layth (at 4:25)

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 it haram to pressure a wife into sex by saying God will be angry?

2018-07-08T00:00:00Z

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. Mufti Abu Layth says, repeating what he said in an earlier session, that marital rape is categorically haram and that this includes religious blackmail.

Answer from 8 July 2018 · auto-transcribed, may contain errors

Kind: general teaching

Recording: Reply to Sunni (Wahhabi) Defence Pt. II -Mufti Abu Layth (at 0:00)

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Critics silent on marital rape, and a story about research and conclusions

2018-07-08T00:00:00Z

Critics silent on marital rape, and a story about research and conclusions

Mufti Abu Layth says his critics avoid the real issue of marital rape, and challenges them to produce a sound chain for the hadith.

Answer from 8 July 2018 · auto-transcribed, may contain errors

Kind: general teaching

Recording: Reply to Sunni (Wahhabi) Defence Pt. III -Mufti Abu Layth (at 12:34)

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Thanks for the correction, but the chain is still flawed

2018-07-08T00:00:00Z

Thanks for the correction, but the chain is still flawed

Mufti Abu Layth accepts that three forum quotes were misrepresented but says he never relied on them: his case rests on the narrator's tadlis, which his critics have not refuted. Mufti Abu Layth says that one should be grateful when people point things out.

Answer from 8 July 2018 · auto-transcribed, may contain errors

Kind: general teaching

Recording: Reply to Sunni (Wahhabi) Defence Pt. III -Mufti Abu Layth (at 7:00)

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 it rape if a husband uses religion to pressure his wife into sex?

2018-07-08T00:00:00Z

Is it rape if a husband uses religion to pressure his wife into sex?

Yes: Mufti Abu Layth says using religious threats to pressure a wife into sex is still rape and categorically haram. Mufti Abu Layth says that pressuring a wife into sex by threatening her with Allah's punishment is no less rape than threatening to beat her.

Answer from 8 July 2018 · auto-transcribed, may contain errors

Kind: general teaching

Recording: Reply to Sunni (Wahhabi) Defence Pt. III -Mufti Abu Layth (at 0:00)

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Calling it a misquotation is poor scholarship

2018-05-29T00:00:00Z

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)

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Accused of misquoting Ibn Ashur on the beast of the earth

2018-05-29T00:00:00Z

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)

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If Mufti Abu Layth admires Qadi Iyad, must he accept everything in al-Shifa?

2018-04-09T00:00:00Z

If Mufti Abu Layth admires Qadi Iyad, must he accept everything in al-Shifa?

No: Mufti Abu Layth says al-Shifa was written to instil love of the Prophet in a context of insults and knowingly includes weak and fabricated reports, and that admiring Qadi Iyad, who himself disagreed with Malik, does not make him a clone. Mufti Abu Layth says that rating Qadi Iyad highly does not oblige him to accept every report in al-Shifa, which was written to instil love of the Prophet in a context of insults and knowingly includes weak and fabricated reports, and that Qadi Iyad himself disagreed with Malik on several matters.

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

Kind: general teaching

Recording: The Role Of Reason In Religion - Mufti Abu Layth (at 1:19:39)

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 a tree really cry for the Prophet, and why does Mufti Abu Layth reject the hadith?

2018-04-09T00:00:00Z

Did a tree really cry for the Prophet, and why does Mufti Abu Layth reject the hadith?

Mufti Abu Layth does not hold the crying-tree reports to be established: their chains are problematic and Muslims cannot call other religions' miracle stories absurd while accepting their own; the Prophet's greatness does not depend on a tree. Mufti Abu Layth holds that the report of the tree crying for the Prophet is not established, that its chains are problematic and it clashes with the principle that such things do not happen, and that Muslims cannot dismiss other religions' miracle stories as absurd while accepting their own.

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

Kind: general teaching

Recording: The Role Of Reason In Religion - Mufti Abu Layth (at 1:17:02)

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

2018-04-01T00:00:00Z

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

2018-04-01T00:00:00Z

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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Is someone who denies a line of al-Tahawi's creed a kafir?

2018-03-15T00:00:00Z

Is someone who denies a line of al-Tahawi's creed a kafir?

No: Mufti Abu Layth says this makes al-Tahawi rather than the Quran the standard, that Elmasry himself departs from al-Tahawi on several points, that Ash'ari creed does not make takfir of the people of the qibla, and that al-Tahawi wrote 250 years after the Prophet and is not an Ash'ari authority.

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

Kind: general teaching

Recording: A response to Shadee Elmasry - Mufti Abu Layth al-Maliki (at 2:36)

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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Reaction to being called a probable kafir by Shadee Elmasry and others

2018-03-15T00:00:00Z

Reaction to being called a probable kafir by Shadee Elmasry and others

Mufti Abu Layth rejects being called a probable kafir and apostate by Shadee Elmasry and others, says no pressure can remove him from Islam, and calls the readiness to throw people out of Islam a god complex.

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

Recording: A response to Shadee Elmasry - Mufti Abu Layth al-Maliki (at 0:00)

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

2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

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'

2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

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

2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

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?

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

2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

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

2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

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?

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

2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

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

2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

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

2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

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?

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Is it fair to say Mufti Abu Layth has no knowledge of the Maliki school?

2018-02-28T00:00:00Z

Is it fair to say Mufti Abu Layth has no knowledge of the Maliki school?

Mufti Abu Layth challenges his critic to a discussion on the Maliki school and says disagreement with his interpretation is fair, but calling him ignorant of the school is misleading.

Answer from 28 February 2018 · auto-transcribed, may contain errors

Kind: general teaching

Recording: A response to Hamza Maqbool (Deobandi/Maliki) - Mufti Abu Layth al-Maliki (at 18:11)

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

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What do the classical Maliki books say about witnesses in a marriage?

2018-02-28T00:00:00Z

What do the classical Maliki books say about witnesses in a marriage?

The Maliki authorities he reads hold that a marriage without witnesses is valid unless it is meant to be secret; witnesses or an announcement are required before consummation. Mufti Abu Layth says the standard Maliki texts, including al-Kafi, the Mudawwana as quoted by Ibn Yunus, and later authorities, state that a nikah without witnesses is valid provided it is not meant to be secret, witnessing being a condition of consummation rather than of validity.

Answer from 28 February 2018 · auto-transcribed, may contain errors

Kind: general teaching

Recording: A response to Hamza Maqbool (Deobandi/Maliki) - Mufti Abu Layth al-Maliki (at 9:00)

A more recent answer on fiqh/maliki-school/muwatta-and-mudawwana exists (18 October 2025): Does the Muwatta show that the Companions' practice had already changed by Malik's time?

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Are witnesses required for a nikah in the Maliki school?

2018-02-28T00:00:00Z

Are witnesses required for a nikah in the Maliki school?

In the Maliki school witnesses are not needed for the nikah to be valid; witnesses or an announcement are needed before consummation. Hamza Maqbool's tweet said Mufti Abu Layth does not represent the school. Mufti Abu Layth says the Maliki school does not require witnesses for a valid nikah, only witnesses or a public announcement before the marriage is consummated, and that many of the Prophet's marriages were not witnessed.

Answer from 28 February 2018 · auto-transcribed, may contain errors

Kind: general teaching

Recording: A response to Hamza Maqbool (Deobandi/Maliki) - Mufti Abu Layth al-Maliki (at 5:06)

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

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What does he say to critics who accept that the Prophet was impotent, married a nine-year-old or was bewitched into clumsiness?

2018-02-21T00:00:00Z

What does he say to critics who accept that the Prophet was impotent, married a nine-year-old or was bewitched into clumsiness?

Mufti Abu Layth says these claims are untrue attacks on the Prophet's honour, resting on reports whose chains he has shown to be defective, and that critics who affirm them to win an argument are themselves being blasphemous. He adds that he does not support capital punishment for such speech. Mufti Abu Layth says the claims that the Prophet was sexually impotent, married a nine-year-old or became clumsy under a spell are untrue and an attack on the Prophet's honour, that he has shown the reports on the marriage to have problems in their chains, and that those who affirm such claims are themselves being blasphemous.

Answer from 21 February 2018 · auto-transcribed, may contain errors

Kind: general teaching

Recording: Reply to Sunni (Wahhabi) Defence Pt.I -Mufti Abu Layth (at 40:19)

A more recent answer on history/sirah/defending-the-prophet exists (19 August 2022): Should loyalty to a scholar ever come before the honour of the Prophet?

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Did Ibn Ma'in consider Isma'il ibn Abi Uways and his family reliable?

2018-02-21T00:00:00Z

Did Ibn Ma'in consider Isma'il ibn Abi Uways and his family reliable?

Mufti Abu Layth says that although one transmitted opinion of Ibn Ma'in accepts him, Ibn Ma'in is also transmitted as counting the household of Abu Uways among the weak. He adds that Abu al-Zubayr was weakened by several critics, so none of the chains the critics brought is conclusive.

Answer from 21 February 2018 · auto-transcribed, may contain errors

Kind: general teaching

Recording: Reply to Sunni (Wahhabi) Defence Pt.I -Mufti Abu Layth (at 36:28)

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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Are the Jabir chains for the crying-tree hadith through Isra'il, Abd al-Razzaq and Ibn Jurayj sound?

2018-02-21T00:00:00Z

Are the Jabir chains for the crying-tree hadith through Isra'il, Abd al-Razzaq and Ibn Jurayj sound?

Mufti Abu Layth argues they are not: one chain rests on Isra'il, whom Yahya ibn Sa'id and Ibn al-Madini weakened, and an unknown narrator; the other on Abd al-Razzaq, criticised for errors from memory, and Ibn Jurayj, a mudallis whose 'akhbarani' referred to books rather than hearing.

Answer from 21 February 2018 · auto-transcribed, may contain errors

Kind: general teaching

Recording: Reply to Sunni (Wahhabi) Defence Pt.I -Mufti Abu Layth (at 31:15)

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 the chain Hammad ibn Salama from Thabit from Anas for the crying-tree hadith sound?

2018-02-21T00:00:00Z

Is the chain Hammad ibn Salama from Thabit from Anas for the crying-tree hadith sound?

Mufti Abu Layth argues it is not: critics report that Hammad ibn Salama's memory failed late in life, that Bukhari did not transmit from him, and that Thabit was not the most reliable transmitter from Anas, Qatada and Humayd al-Tawil being ranked above him.

Answer from 21 February 2018 · auto-transcribed, may contain errors

Kind: general teaching

Recording: Reply to Sunni (Wahhabi) Defence Pt.I -Mufti Abu Layth (at 24:42)

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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Can a hadith narrated by Jabir alone be mutawatir?

2018-02-21T00:00:00Z

Can a hadith narrated by Jabir alone be mutawatir?

No: mutawatir requires so many transmissions that a lie is impossible, which a report from Jabir alone cannot be, and he says the report is not even sahih. He defends following the critics who weakened the narrator rather than those who graded him reliable. Mufti Abu Layth says hadith grading is not settled by a majority, so that he is entitled to follow the hadith critic who weakened a narrator rather than those who graded him reliable.

Answer from 21 February 2018 · auto-transcribed, may contain errors

Kind: general teaching

Recording: Reply to Sunni (Wahhabi) Defence Pt.I -Mufti Abu Layth (at 19:41)

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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Does the Maliki school distinguish between hadith and Sunnah, and did Imam Malik ever reject a hadith?

2018-02-21T00:00:00Z

Does the Maliki school distinguish between hadith and Sunnah, and did Imam Malik ever reject a hadith?

Yes: the school of Madinah embraces the Sunnah while remaining critical of individual hadith, and Imam Malik rejected several reports when the practice of Madinah did not reflect them. He says he stated clearly that scholars differed on the report's grading. Mufti Abu Layth says the school of Madinah distinguishes hadith from Sunnah, embracing the Sunnah while remaining critical of individual hadith, and that Imam Malik did reject several hadith when the practice of Madinah did not reflect them.

Answer from 21 February 2018 · auto-transcribed, may contain errors

Kind: general teaching

Recording: Reply to Sunni (Wahhabi) Defence Pt.I -Mufti Abu Layth (at 17:03)

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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Is it acceptable to criticise a hadith in Sahih al-Bukhari?

2018-02-21T00:00:00Z

Is it acceptable to criticise a hadith in Sahih al-Bukhari?

Al-Albani himself rejected around a dozen reports in Bukhari, so criticising a Bukhari report does not make someone a deviant. The salaf understood the Quran's miracles in several ways, and miracles had causes within God's natural law. Mufti Abu Layth says that criticising reports in Sahih al-Bukhari cannot make a person a deviant when al-Albani rejected around a dozen of them, and that the salaf understood the Quran's miracles in several ways, miracles always having causes within God's law of nature.

Answer from 21 February 2018 · auto-transcribed, may contain errors

Kind: general teaching

Recording: Reply to Sunni (Wahhabi) Defence Pt.I -Mufti Abu Layth (at 14:23)

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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How does he view the Salafi movement, and is hadith narrator criticism a divine science?

2018-02-21T00:00:00Z

How does he view the Salafi movement, and is hadith narrator criticism a divine science?

The Salafi movement began as a courageous rejection of tradition but, once established, became as dogmatic as what it opposed. Narrator criticism is a human science, so it is always open to revision and disagreement. Mufti Abu Layth says the Salafi movement, having begun as a courageous iconoclastic rejection of tradition, became as dogmatic as what it opposed once established, and that narrator criticism (ilm al-rijal) is a human science open to revision and disagreement rather than a divine one.

Answer from 21 February 2018 · auto-transcribed, may contain errors

Kind: general teaching

Recording: Reply to Sunni (Wahhabi) Defence Pt.I -Mufti Abu Layth (at 10:29)

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 he believe in miracles?

2018-02-21T00:00:00Z

Does he believe in miracles?

Yes, miracles exist on a spectrum, but none ever defies God's own laws. Rare events can occur, but they always have a cause and a natural explanation, whether or not it is known. Mufti Abu Layth holds that miracles exist on a spectrum but that no miracle ever defied God's own laws: rare events can happen, but they always have a cause and a means through nature and the laws of physics, whether or not it is known.

Answer from 21 February 2018 · auto-transcribed, may contain errors

Kind: general teaching

Recording: Reply to Sunni (Wahhabi) Defence Pt.I -Mufti Abu Layth (at 7:50)

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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Why does he reject the hadith of the tree crying for the Prophet?

2018-02-21T00:00:00Z

Why does he reject the hadith of the tree crying for the Prophet?

The religion is built on reason, so one standard must apply to all religions: a tree that reasons and cries cannot be accepted while other faiths' claims are called absurd. He also urged his critics to reject the demeaning reports about the Prophet, which they instead affirmed. Mufti Abu Layth holds that the religion is built on reason, so a Muslim must apply one set of standards: a report that a tree reasoned and cried cannot be accepted while the claims of other religions are rejected as absurd.

Answer from 21 February 2018 · auto-transcribed, may contain errors

Kind: general teaching

Recording: Reply to Sunni (Wahhabi) Defence Pt.I -Mufti Abu Layth (at 3:54)

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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Introduction: the Sunni Defence live session and its charge of an 'attack on the Sunnah'

2018-02-21T00:00:00Z

Introduction: the Sunni Defence live session and its charge of an 'attack on the Sunnah'

Mufti Abu Layth introduces a live-streamed refutation of his video on the crying-tree report, titled an 'attack on the Sunnah', and says he will respond after giving the backdrop.

Answer from 21 February 2018 · auto-transcribed, may contain errors

Recording: Reply to Sunni (Wahhabi) Defence Pt.I -Mufti Abu Layth (at 0:00)

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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Is it blasphemy to say some companions exaggerated out of love for the Prophet?

2018-02-09T00:00:00Z

Is it blasphemy to say some companions exaggerated out of love for the Prophet?

No: Mufti Abu Layth says suggesting that companions may have exaggerated out of love is not blasphemy, noting he alone defended Mu'awiya when he was abused online. Mufti Abu Layth says that if the reports were authentic, his answer would be that maybe some companions exaggerated out of excessive love.

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

Kind: general teaching

Recording: Hadiths on Prophetic Miracles and Responding to Claims of Blasphemy - Mufti Abu Layth al Maliki (at 16:30)

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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Viral claims that Mufti Abu Layth insulted the companions

2018-02-09T00:00:00Z

Viral claims that Mufti Abu Layth insulted the companions

Mufti Abu Layth explains that he called the crying-tree reports unestablished, and only suggested that, if accepted, some companions exaggerated out of love; that is not blasphemy.

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

Kind: general teaching

Recording: Hadiths on Prophetic Miracles and Responding to Claims of Blasphemy - Mufti Abu Layth al Maliki (at 0:00)

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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Can the detailed aqidah taught today be proven from the Quran and Sunnah alone?

2018-01-14T00:00:00Z

Can the detailed aqidah taught today be proven from the Quran and Sunnah alone?

Mufti Abu Layth says aqidah as taught today was put together by Muslims over the ages, while the Prophet taught only simple belief. He challenges the maulana to a face-to-face meeting to prove his aqidah exclusively from the Quran and Sunnah, guaranteeing it cannot be done.

Answer from 14 January 2018 · auto-transcribed, may contain errors

Kind: general teaching

Recording: A Reply To Zakaullah Saleem (Salafi)- By Mufti Abu Layth (at 5:29)

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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What did the Green Lane Masjid khutbah say about Mufti Abu Layth?

2018-01-14T00:00:00Z

What did the Green Lane Masjid khutbah say about Mufti Abu Layth?

The khutbah called him a jahil who cannot be a mufti, said he mocks the deen, the people of tawhid and hadith, and blamed his followers' parents for not teaching them the correct aqidah. Mufti Abu Layth reports each charge with mockery and notes a well-funded Salafi organisation targeting one man on Facebook.

Answer from 14 January 2018 · auto-transcribed, may contain errors

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

Recording: A Reply To Zakaullah Saleem (Salafi)- By Mufti Abu Layth (at 0:00)

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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Ruqya and the Quran as a cure: spiritual diseases, not cancer

2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

Ruqya and the Quran as a cure: spiritual diseases, not cancer

The Quran is a cure for the spiritual diseases of the heart, not a replacement for medicine for physical illness. The Prophet told people to seek medicine. The Quran's description of itself as a cure refers to the spiritual diseases of the heart, not to physical illness, for which the Prophet instructed people to seek medicine.

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

Kind: general teaching

Recording: Reply to Abu Ibraheem (Salafi)- By Mufti Abu Layth al-Maliki (at 40:38)

A more recent answer on fiqh/medical-ethics exists (10 March 2023): Can a pregnancy last for years, as was said of Imam Malik's birth?

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Refute me with sahih evidence: lying about the Prophet and the charge of misguidance

2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

Refute me with sahih evidence: lying about the Prophet and the charge of misguidance

Mufti Abu Layth invites refutation but only on categorical evidence from the Quran and sahih hadith, and says quoting weak reports falsely attributed to the Prophet is shameful. Mufti Abu Layth says anyone may try to prove him wrong but must bring categorical evidence from the Quran and the Sunnah, and that quoting weak reports as the Prophet's words is attributing lies to him.

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

Kind: general teaching

Recording: Reply to Abu Ibraheem (Salafi)- By Mufti Abu Layth al-Maliki (at 36:43)

A more recent answer on hadith/hadith-in-legal-reasoning exists (18 October 2025): Is there a middle way between rejecting all hadith and accepting every hadith?

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Anal intercourse: the difference of opinion and the chains of the critic's hadith

2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

Anal intercourse: the difference of opinion and the chains of the critic's hadith

On anal intercourse Mufti Abu Layth says only that there is a difference of opinion: the majority held it haram, many Malikis did not and disliked it for hygiene. He argues that every hadith the critic quoted against it has a weak or disconnected chain.

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

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

Recording: Reply to Abu Ibraheem (Salafi)- By Mufti Abu Layth al-Maliki (at 24:50)

A more recent answer on fiqh/sexual-ethics exists (22 February 2023): Did some Muslim scholars say homosexuality is not haram?

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Music: the hadith on singing and hypocrisy, and scholars who permitted music

2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

Music: the hadith on singing and hypocrisy, and scholars who permitted music

Nothing proven categorically makes music haram, and lyrics by themselves do not make listening haram. The hadith the critic cited on singing and hypocrisy is weak in every chain, and he lists scholars who said no sahih report forbids music. Nothing proven categorically demonstrates that music is haram, lyrics by themselves do not make listening haram, and the hadith brought to forbid it, that singing breeds hypocrisy in the heart, is weak in every chain.

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

Kind: general teaching

Recording: Reply to Abu Ibraheem (Salafi)- By Mufti Abu Layth al-Maliki (at 14:24)

A more recent answer on hadith/authentication exists (19 August 2022): Why did Ibn Hajar say the satanic verses story has some basis?

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Shaving the beard: Qadi Iyad's view and the demand for one hadith

2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

Shaving the beard: Qadi Iyad's view and the demand for one hadith

The view that shaving the beard is not haram is presented as Qadi Iyad's, and Mufti Abu Layth challenges the critic to produce a hadith teaching how to keep a beard. He adds that truth is not decided by the number of scholars holding a view.

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

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

Recording: Reply to Abu Ibraheem (Salafi)- By Mufti Abu Layth al-Maliki (at 10:31)

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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