Mufti Abu Layth Archive: hadith/authentication/text-criticism-and-reason

What does the Quran say against the satanic verses story?

Fri, 19 Aug 2022 00:00:00 +0000

What does the Quran say against the satanic verses story?

Mufti Abu Layth says al-Suyuti repeated Ibn Hajar's mistake, while the Quran rules the story out: the Prophet does not speak from desire and Satan has no power to speak in his voice. Mufti Abu Layth says the Quran itself rules out the satanic verses story, since it says the Prophet does not speak from desire and that Satan has no power over people beyond calling them, so he cannot speak in the Prophet's voice.

Answer from 19 August 2022 · auto-transcribed, may contain errors

Kind: general teaching

Recording: Salman Rushdie & The Satanic Verses | Mufti Abu Layth (at 1:26:29)

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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What did the classical Maliki scholars say about the satanic verses story?

Fri, 19 Aug 2022 00:00:00 +0000

What did the classical Maliki scholars say about the satanic verses story?

Mufti Abu Layth says the Maliki scholars, Abu Bakr ibn al-Arabi and Qadi Iyad among them, rejected the story as fabricated, and that al-Tabari records the narrations but concludes they are false. Mufti Abu Layth says the Maliki scholars rightly rejected the satanic verses narrations as fabricated, and that even a sahih report contradicting the Quran would be rejected, let alone weak ones.

Answer from 19 August 2022 · auto-transcribed, may contain errors

Kind: general teaching

Recording: Salman Rushdie & The Satanic Verses | Mufti Abu Layth (at 1:14:40)

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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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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What does Mufti Abu Layth say about the Ibn Mas'ud hadith on the end of time and Jesus's return?

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

What does Mufti Abu Layth say about the Ibn Mas'ud hadith on the end of time and Jesus's return?

The Ibn Mas'ud report has unknown narrators, opens by noting the Christians' claim that Jesus will return, and ends with life regrowing from a seminal fluid sent from beneath the Throne, a detail Mufti Abu Layth calls preposterous and uses to argue that such reports can be questioned. Mufti Abu Layth says the Ibn Mas'ud report of the return opens by noting the Christians' claim that Jesus will return, which shows the belief creeping in, has unidentifiable narrators in its chain, and ends with life regrowing from a seminal fluid sent from beneath the Throne, a detail he calls 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 2:07:24)

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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How does Yasir Qadhi answer the objection that Jesus killing pigs and refusing jizya makes no sense?

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

How does Yasir Qadhi answer the objection that Jesus killing pigs and refusing jizya makes no sense?

Qadhi's clip concedes that one early authority held Jesus died a natural death, and answers the objection that the return reports are irrational, Jesus killing pigs and refusing jizya, with 'Allah said so' and the claim that there will be no middle category between Islam and the Dajjal.

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 32:51)

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

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What does the Ibn Mas'ud hadith about the end of time say, and is it reliable?

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

What does the Ibn Mas'ud hadith about the end of time say, and is it reliable?

The Ibn Mas'ud report has unknown narrators, opens by citing the Christians' claim that Jesus will return, and ends with life regrowing from a fluid sent from beneath the Throne, which Mufti Abu Layth calls preposterous. Mufti Abu Layth says one report begins with the statement that the Christians claim Jesus will come back, which shows the belief creeping in.

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 3:10:42)

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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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?

Watch on YouTube at 1:57:36 · Open the segment

How does Yasir Qadhi answer the objection that Jesus killing pigs makes no sense?

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

How does Yasir Qadhi answer the objection that Jesus killing pigs makes no sense?

In the clip Qadhi admits one early authority held that Jesus died, and answers objections to Jesus killing pigs and refusing the jizya with 'Allah said so'.

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 1:36:30)

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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Did the Prophet tell people to drink camel urine as medicine?

Tue, 16 Feb 2021 00:00:00 +0000

Did the Prophet tell people to drink camel urine as medicine?

Mufti Abu Layth says camel urine is not medicine and the Prophet never really told anyone to drink it; the report is weak in its chain and, if taken at all, reads as a rebuke.

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 1:26:20)

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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How could Abu Hurayra narrate 5,000 hadith after only two years with the Prophet?

Tue, 26 Jan 2021 00:00:00 +0000

How could Abu Hurayra narrate 5,000 hadith after only two years with the Prophet?

Mufti Abu Layth says it is implausible that Abu Hurayra narrated so much after about two years with the Prophet, that Umar restrained him, and that impossible reports such as the Ruqayya comb story should be rejected by Sunnis themselves. Mufti Abu Layth says it is implausible that Abu Hurayra, who spent about two years with the Prophet, narrated some five thousand hadith, that false memories likely entered his reports, and that Sunnis should themselves reject reports that are factually impossible.

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

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Recording: Monday Nights with Mufti #199 | Q&A Unscripted & Unrestricted! 😉 | Mufti Abu Layth (at 2:50:05)

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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How do I find the true Sunnah in the hadith books?

Tue, 19 Jan 2021 00:00:00 +0000

How do I find the true Sunnah in the hadith books?

The true Sunnah does not clash with reason, the Quran or Islamic principles, Mufti Abu Layth says, and the safer way is to take it from fiqh. Mufti Abu Layth says the true Sunnah does not clash with reason, does not go against the Quran and does not uproot an Islamic principle.

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 1:33:27)

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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Does Sahih al-Bukhari really say God dangled in front of the Prophet?

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

Does Sahih al-Bukhari really say God dangled in front of the Prophet?

Mufti Abu Layth says the Bukhari report of God 'dangling' before the Prophet is unacceptable, and any hadith that clashes with reason or the Quran must be rejected. Mufti Abu Layth says that describing God as dangling in front of the Prophet, as in this hadith, is utterly unacceptable.

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

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Recording: Monday Nights with Mufti #197 | Q&A Unscripted & Unrestricted! 😉 | Mufti Abu Layth (at 1:58:33)

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

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Was the woman who refused the Prophet in Bukhari's divorce chapter his wife?

Tue, 05 Jan 2021 00:00:00 +0000

Was the woman who refused the Prophet in Bukhari's divorce chapter his wife?

The chapter's reports are confused and defenders strain to reconcile them; he says hadith scholars, like doctors, were institutionalised in their field. Mufti Abu Layth says that most scholars of Islam in the past who were invested in a particular field were institutionalised by it and did not critique it the way an outsider does, though a few thought out of the box.

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

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Recording: Monday Nights with Mufti #196 | Q&A Unscripted & Unrestricted! 😉 | Mufti Abu Layth (at 48:31)

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 hadith about the evil eye authentic?

Sun, 15 Nov 2020 00:00:00 +0000

Are the hadith about the evil eye authentic?

No: he says the evil eye hadith rest on weak or criticised narrators and odd reports, and a belief so important would have come from many companions and the Quran. He calls them baseless. Mufti Abu Layth says the hadith on the evil eye are baseless and all problematic.

Answer from 15 November 2020 · auto-transcribed, may contain errors

Kind: general teaching

Recording: There is NO evil eye in Islam (Detailed Overview) | Mufti Abu Layth (at 56:07)

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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Writers who place Aisha in her teens, and how narrators exaggerated ages

Mon, 12 Oct 2020 00:00:00 +0000

Writers who place Aisha in her teens, and how narrators exaggerated ages

Several modern writers conclude that Aisha was in her teens at marriage, and the speakers explain the hadith's figures as numbers garbled and exaggerated downwards by narrators. Khadija's age, by contrast, was exaggerated upwards from about twenty-eight to forty.

Answer from 12 October 2020 · auto-transcribed, may contain errors

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Recording: Aisha was not a child Her age at the time of Marriage | Mufti Abu Layth (at 5:13)

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?

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Can a hadith be rejected because it goes against reason?

Fri, 09 Oct 2020 00:00:00 +0000

Can a hadith be rejected because it goes against reason?

Mufti Abu Layth says reason is what immediately tells you whether a hadith is sahih, and that an early classical text on hadith says so. Mufti Abu Layth says reason is what immediately tells you whether a hadith is sahih or not.

Answer from 9 October 2020 · auto-transcribed, may contain errors

Kind: general teaching

Recording: Sahih hadith criteria: Cannot go against reason | Mufti Abu Layth (at 0:01)

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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Did the Prophet really order Jews and Christians expelled from Arabia?

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

Did the Prophet really order Jews and Christians expelled from Arabia?

Mufti Abu Layth finds the hadith ordering the expulsion of Jews and Christians from Arabia suspect, since the Prophet traded with a Jewish man days before he died, and sees it as a later fabrication. Mufti Abu Layth says he finds the hadith ordering the expulsion of the Jews and Christians from the Arabian Peninsula incredibly suspect and does not believe it is true.

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 2:06:49)

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?

Watch on YouTube at 2:07:28 · Open the segment

Is the hadith about conquering Constantinople authentic?

Tue, 14 Jul 2020 00:00:00 +0000

Is the hadith about conquering Constantinople authentic?

It may be authentic, since Constantinople symbolised Byzantine power, but he feels many further hadith about it were fabricated to encourage campaigns. Mufti Abu Layth says it seems very plausible to him that the Prophet may have foretold the conquest of Constantinople, because it symbolised power in that region.

Answer from 14 July 2020 · auto-transcribed, may contain errors

Kind: general teaching

Recording: Monday Nights with Mufti Abu Layth 173 (at 1:46:03)

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

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How do I make sense of the hadith that the Prophet banned mut'ah?

Tue, 14 Jul 2020 00:00:00 +0000

How do I make sense of the hadith that the Prophet banned mut'ah?

Mufti Abu Layth says the reports on the banning of mut'ah are inconsistent and contradict each other, so they are hard to rely on. Mufti Abu Layth says the hadith about mut'ah are very inconsistent and turbulent, seeming to contradict each other.

Answer from 14 July 2020 · auto-transcribed, may contain errors

Kind: general teaching

Recording: Monday Nights with Mufti Abu Layth 173 (at 1:01:01)

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 reliable is the story of the first revelation in the cave?

Fri, 03 Jul 2020 00:00:00 +0000

How reliable is the story of the first revelation in the cave?

The guest doubts the historicity of the cave story, attributing it to al-Zuhri; Mufti Abu Layth says he would take the whole description with a pinch of salt.

Answer from 3 July 2020 · auto-transcribed, may contain errors

Kind: general teaching

Recording: Prof. Dr Khalil Andani | The Oral Text & the Ontology of The Quran | Mindtrap with Mufti #28 (at 57:30)

A more recent answer on history/sirah exists (9 May 2023): How did the Prophet balance gentleness and strength?

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How should hadith be evaluated, and did the companions ever misreport the Prophet?

Wed, 22 Apr 2020 00:00:00 +0000

How should hadith be evaluated, and did the companions ever misreport the Prophet?

Hadith should be judged one by one against the principles of the religion, observation and reason, as the earliest Muslims did before reason was sidelined. Aisha herself rejected several companions' reports, such as the dog, woman and donkey breaking the prayer, the dead punished by weeping, and the bad omen in a woman, showing how reports were misrelayed.

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

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

Recording: Shaykh Dr. Shabir Ally | Juxtaposing the Quran, Jumbling Aisha's age & Jinn Possession | MindTrap#16 (at 1:05:05)

A more recent answer on dialogue/guest-conversations exists (18 October 2025): How should Muslims engage people with very different views of the religion?

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Can Sahih al-Bukhari be proven to be the book Imam al-Bukhari wrote?

Wed, 22 Apr 2020 00:00:00 +0000

Can Sahih al-Bukhari be proven to be the book Imam al-Bukhari wrote?

Mufti Abu Layth holds that what is really mutawatir is the living tradition, not any hadith, and that Sahih al-Bukhari cannot be proven to be Bukhari's exact book since it rests on one unvouched transmitter, Farabri. Each report should therefore be weighed against reason, the Quran and the principles of Islam like any other hadith.

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

Kind: general teaching

Recording: Shaykh Dr. Shabir Ally | Juxtaposing the Quran, Jumbling Aisha's age & Jinn Possession | MindTrap#16 (at 1:01:06)

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 1:01:06 · Open the segment

Is it Sunnah to drink camel urine as medicine?

Sun, 16 Feb 2020 00:00:00 +0000

Is it Sunnah to drink camel urine as medicine?

No, you should not drink camel urine: he calls it nonsense and says the report is problematic in its chain and its text, even though it is in al-Bukhari. Mufti Abu Layth says that one should not drink camel urine and calls the idea nonsense.

Answer from 16 February 2020 · auto-transcribed, may contain errors

Kind: general teaching

Recording: Drinking Camel Urine? -Mufti Abu Layth (at 0:00)

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 0:00 · Open the segment

If some hadith are unreliable, doesn't that make the Quran unreliable too?

Sat, 28 Sep 2019 00:00:00 +0000

If some hadith are unreliable, doesn't that make the Quran unreliable too?

No: the Quran was passed on en masse as a recited living tradition, so doubts about particular hadith chains do not carry over to it. Mufti Abu Layth says those who argue that weakening hadith weakens the Quran have not truly understood how the Quran was transmitted.

Answer from 28 September 2019 · auto-transcribed, may contain errors

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Recording: Does criticising Hadith transmission mean criticising the Quran tranmssion? | Mufti Abu Layth (at 0:01)

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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What evidence suggests Aisha was older than nine when she married?

Fri, 30 Nov 2018 00:00:00 +0000

What evidence suggests Aisha was older than nine when she married?

Mufti Abu Layth argues that a six-year-old could not have been the help the Prophet needed, and that the battle reports, her earlier engagement, her age at death and her memory of a Makkan verse point to her being at least seventeen. Mufti Abu Layth says that the marriage narrative, the battle reports, Aisha's earlier engagement to Jubayr ibn Mut'im, her age at death and her memory of a verse revealed in Makkah all indicate that she was at least seventeen when the Prophet proposed.

Answer from 30 November 2018 · auto-transcribed, may contain errors

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Recording: Shaykh Omar Suleiman & the Yaqeen Institutes On Age of Aisha (r.a.) -Mufti Abu Layth (at 10:27)

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?

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If a mutawatir hadith has to be reinterpreted, what does that say about hadith transmission?

Thu, 20 Sep 2018 00:00:00 +0000

If a mutawatir hadith has to be reinterpreted, what does that say about hadith transmission?

Mufti Abu Layth says that because its defenders must reinterpret a report they call mutawatir, the transmission system itself is shown to be fallible rather than airtight. Mufti Abu Layth says that when a report claimed to be mutawatir produces a meaning its own defenders must reinterpret as incomplete, this shows that the hadith transmission system is not airtight and cannot be treated as conclusive.

Answer from 20 September 2018 · auto-transcribed, may contain errors

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Recording: The War-Wager Hadith Paradox (Debunking Dogmatism) -Mufti Abu Layth (at 7:54)

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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What is the war-wager hadith paradox?

Thu, 20 Sep 2018 00:00:00 +0000

What is the war-wager hadith paradox?

Mufti Abu Layth presents the report that the Prophet was commanded to fight people until they believe, which hadith dogmatists call mutawatir, and notes that the same scholars agree no one may be fought merely for disbelief or compelled into Islam. Mufti Abu Layth says hadith dogmatists, loyal above all to the chain of transmission, have departed from the teaching of Imam Malik and Abu Hanifa not to abandon reason, and he holds that there is no compulsion at all in matters of religion.

Answer from 20 September 2018 · auto-transcribed, may contain errors

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Recording: The War-Wager Hadith Paradox (Debunking Dogmatism) -Mufti Abu Layth (at 0:00)

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 hadith that the Prophet died of poison contradict the Quran?

Mon, 17 Sep 2018 00:00:00 +0000

Does the hadith that the Prophet died of poison contradict the Quran?

Yes, in Mufti Abu Layth's view: the Quran promises that Allah will protect the Prophet from the people, and it describes cutting the aorta as the punishment for one who forges revelation, so a report that the Prophet died that way humiliates him. Mufti Abu Layth says the poisoning report clashes with the Quran's promise to protect the Prophet from the people and makes the Prophet's death resemble the punishment described in the Quran for one who forges revelation.

Answer from 17 September 2018 · auto-transcribed, may contain errors

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Recording: False Hadith: The Prophet ﷺ Was Poisoned Before He Died (at 10:31)

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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How can the same poison kill one companion at once and the Prophet three years later?

Mon, 17 Sep 2018 00:00:00 +0000

How can the same poison kill one companion at once and the Prophet three years later?

The story contradicts itself: the companion who ate the food died at once, so the same poison cannot have killed the Prophet three years later, and the Prophet in Muslim's version says Allah would not let the woman do it. Mufti Abu Layth holds that the poisoning story is internally contradictory, since the companion who ate the food died at once while the Prophet is said to have died from the same poison three years later.

Answer from 17 September 2018 · auto-transcribed, may contain errors

Kind: general teaching

Recording: False Hadith: The Prophet ﷺ Was Poisoned Before He Died (at 6:49)

A more recent answer on history/sirah exists (9 May 2023): How did the Prophet balance gentleness and strength?

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What does the Bukhari report that Shaytan touches every newborn except Mary and Jesus mean?

Sat, 01 Sep 2018 00:00:00 +0000

What does the Bukhari report that Shaytan touches every newborn except Mary and Jesus mean?

The Bukhari report that Shaytan touches every newborn except Mary and Jesus makes even the Prophet Muhammad subject to the devil's touch while exempting the two figures of Christian doctrine, which Mufti Abu Layth presents as a Christian idea in the collection.

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

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Recording: BukhariGate Part 2: Sahih Bukhari is NOT so Sahih -Mufti Abu Layth (at 26:05)

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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What does Mufti Abu Layth say about the Bukhari report of the wolf and the cow that spoke?

Sat, 01 Sep 2018 00:00:00 +0000

What does Mufti Abu Layth say about the Bukhari report of the wolf and the cow that spoke?

The Bukhari report in which a wolf and a cow speak eloquent Arabic about purpose and the future is absurd, Mufti Abu Layth says, and the phrase radi Allahu anhuma placed in the Prophet's mouth is an anachronism from a later age. Mufti Abu Layth says the Bukhari report of the talking wolf and cow is absurd, since animals do not grasp concepts such as purpose and future events, that its chain is poor, and that the phrase radi Allahu anhuma attributed to the Prophet is an anachronism from a later age.

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

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Recording: BukhariGate Part 2: Sahih Bukhari is NOT so Sahih -Mufti Abu Layth (at 22:10)

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 22:10 · Open the segment

Why does Mufti Abu Layth reject the Bukhari report of Sulayman and the hundred women?

Sat, 01 Sep 2018 00:00:00 +0000

Why does Mufti Abu Layth reject the Bukhari report of Sulayman and the hundred women?

The report of Sulayman going to a hundred women in one night is absurd and disrespects a prophet, and its moral that God punished him with a disabled child paints a troubling picture of God. A report that clashes with reason, the Quran or Islamic principles goes out of the window. Mufti Abu Layth says the Bukhari report of Sulayman and the hundred women is absurd, puts a prophet in a bad light and portrays God as punishing a prophet with a disabled child, and that any report which clashes with reason, the Quran and the general understanding of Islam, or uproots an Islamic principle, is to be rejected.

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

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Recording: BukhariGate Part 2: Sahih Bukhari is NOT so Sahih -Mufti Abu Layth (at 18:15)

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Summing up: judge Bukhari like any other book; the deen comes through living practice

Thu, 30 Aug 2018 00:00:00 +0000

Summing up: judge Bukhari like any other book; the deen comes through living practice

Bukhari should be read like any other hadith book, each report judged on its merits against reason, the Quran and established principles. The religion itself reaches Muslims through the living tradition of practice, not through this book. Mufti Abu Layth says Sahih al-Bukhari should be treated like any other hadith collection, with each report judged on its own merits by whether it contradicts reason, the Quran or an established principle, because the religion already reaches Muslims through the living tradition of practice.

Answer from 30 August 2018 · auto-transcribed, may contain errors

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Recording: BukhariGate Part 1: Sahih Bukhari is NOT so Sahih -Mufti Abu Layth (at 1:32:44)

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Nonsensical Arabic in hadith 5492: the alcohol slaughtered by fish and sun

Thu, 30 Aug 2018 00:00:00 +0000

Nonsensical Arabic in hadith 5492: the alcohol slaughtered by fish and sun

The closing words of hadith 5492 are nonsensical Arabic that early scholars crossed out as an error. Later commentators should admit this rather than strain to make sense of it. Mufti Abu Layth says the closing words of hadith 5492 are a syntactical error that the early scholars rightly crossed out, and that later commentators should admit the sentence is absurd instead of justifying it.

Answer from 30 August 2018 · auto-transcribed, may contain errors

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Recording: BukhariGate Part 1: Sahih Bukhari is NOT so Sahih -Mufti Abu Layth (at 32:03)

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The first problem: Bukhari's semi-divine status above the Quran in practice

Thu, 30 Aug 2018 00:00:00 +0000

The first problem: Bukhari's semi-divine status above the Quran in practice

Sahih al-Bukhari has been given a semi-divine status that in practice places it on par with or above the Quran, which he rejects outright. The Quran always takes precedence, and Bukhari is a book like the other hadith collections. Mufti Abu Layth says Sahih al-Bukhari has been given a de facto status on par with or above the Quran, which he rejects entirely: it is a book like the other hadith collections and the Quran always takes precedence over it.

Answer from 30 August 2018 · auto-transcribed, may contain errors

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Recording: BukhariGate Part 1: Sahih Bukhari is NOT so Sahih -Mufti Abu Layth (at 6:33)

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Did Abu Hurayra learn to recite Ayat al-Kursi at bedtime from a devil?

Sun, 12 Aug 2018 00:00:00 +0000

Did Abu Hurayra learn to recite Ayat al-Kursi at bedtime from a devil?

Mufti Abu Layth rejects the report as blasphemous: it has the devil teaching Islam while the Prophet confirms it, against Imam Malik's principle that everything of the deen came from the Prophet. It also portrays Abu Hurayra as clumsy and disobedient and the Prophet as tolerating theft. Mufti Abu Layth holds that the report is blasphemous and a mockery of the deen, since it shows Abu Hurayra clumsy and disobedient, the Prophet failing to teach and tolerating theft from the treasury, and the devil teaching Islam, against Imam Malik's principle that everything of the deen was taught by the Prophet.

Answer from 12 August 2018 · auto-transcribed, may contain errors

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Recording: False Hadith: Abu Huraira & the Thieving Devil who taught us Islam (at 5:14)

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What is the hadith about Abu Hurayra, the thief and Ayat al-Kursi?

Sun, 12 Aug 2018 00:00:00 +0000

What is the hadith about Abu Hurayra, the thief and Ayat al-Kursi?

The report has Abu Hurayra guarding the zakat treasury and releasing a thief three nights running despite the Prophet calling him a liar, until the thief teaches him to recite Ayat al-Kursi before sleep. Mufti Abu Layth calls it fabricated or mis-transmitted and contrary to the Quran and Sunnah. Mufti Abu Layth says the Sahih al-Bukhari report of Abu Hurayra being taught Ayat al-Kursi by a thieving devil is fabricated or mis-transmitted, contradicts the Quran and Sunnah and disrespects Islam.

Answer from 12 August 2018 · auto-transcribed, may contain errors

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Recording: False Hadith: Abu Huraira & the Thieving Devil who taught us Islam (at 0:00)

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How should Muslims decide which hadith to accept and which to reject?

Fri, 03 Aug 2018 00:00:00 +0000

How should Muslims decide which hadith to accept and which to reject?

Follow Imam Malik: accept some hadith and reject others. A report is accepted if it does not clash with reason, the Quran, the transmitted and corroborated Sunnah such as the practice of Madinah, or a principle of Islam; otherwise it is treated with caution. Mufti Abu Layth holds that the ummah must return to Imam Malik's method of accepting some hadith and rejecting others, accepting a report only if it does not clash with reason, the Quran, the corroborated Sunnah such as the practice of Madinah, or a principle of Islam.

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

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Recording: Reply to Sunni (Wahhabi) Defence Pt. IV -Mufti Abu Layth (at 15:35)

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Is not praying during menstruation a sign of weak faith?

Sun, 29 Jul 2018 00:00:00 +0000

Is not praying during menstruation a sign of weak faith?

No: Mufti Abu Layth says women refrain from prayer during menstruation because the religion told them to, so calling it a lack of faith is absurd and the report is a misattribution. Mufti Abu Layth says it is absurd to say women lack faith for not praying while menstruating, when the religion itself told them not to pray.

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

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Recording: Hadith Analysis: Did the Prophet ﷺ Refer to Women as Lacking Intellect and Faith? (at 23:44)

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Do women really curse more than men, as the hadith says?

Sun, 29 Jul 2018 00:00:00 +0000

Do women really curse more than men, as the hadith says?

No: Mufti Abu Layth says men swear more than women across cultures and ingratitude is shared by both, so the report's reasons are factual errors. Mufti Abu Layth says the report contains a factual error, since men always outperform women in swearing in every culture.

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

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Recording: Hadith Analysis: Did the Prophet ﷺ Refer to Women as Lacking Intellect and Faith? (at 16:41)

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Why do the versions of the 'women in hell' hadith contradict each other?

Sun, 29 Jul 2018 00:00:00 +0000

Why do the versions of the 'women in hell' hadith contradict each other?

Mufti Abu Layth says the versions disagree on which Eid it was and whether the women were addressed privately, so the male narrators heard it second-hand from someone unknown. Mufti Abu Layth says the narrations show turbulence, since the narrators could not say on which of the two Eids the address took place.

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

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Recording: Hadith Analysis: Did the Prophet ﷺ Refer to Women as Lacking Intellect and Faith? (at 12:53)

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Does the Quran say most people in hell are women?

Sun, 29 Jul 2018 00:00:00 +0000

Does the Quran say most people in hell are women?

No: Mufti Abu Layth says the Quran speaks of mankind as a whole, all created weak, and never divides the people of hell by gender, so the report clashes with it. Mufti Abu Layth says the Quran never makes a gender differentiation regarding the people of hell, so the report goes against it.

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

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Recording: Hadith Analysis: Did the Prophet ﷺ Refer to Women as Lacking Intellect and Faith? (at 6:30)

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Did the Prophet say women lack intellect and faith?

Sun, 29 Jul 2018 00:00:00 +0000

Did the Prophet say women lack intellect and faith?

No: Mufti Abu Layth says the report, though in al-Bukhari, is a false attribution to the Prophet, and that he once took it as a joke but now holds it inauthentic. Mufti Abu Layth says the report that women lack intellect and faith is inauthentic and falsely attributed to the Prophet.

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

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Recording: Hadith Analysis: Did the Prophet ﷺ Refer to Women as Lacking Intellect and Faith? (at 0:00)

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

Sun, 08 Jul 2018 00:00:00 +0000

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

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

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Is the chain of the apostasy hadith through Anas reliable?

Thu, 10 May 2018 00:00:00 +0000

Is the chain of the apostasy hadith through Anas reliable?

The alternative chain of the apostasy hadith through Anas is also weak: it includes a narrator with Mu'tazili tendencies and Qatada, who is known for tadlis, and the report clashes with reason, the Quran and the Prophet's life. Mufti Abu Layth says the chain of the apostasy report through Anas is also problematic, because of a narrator with Mu'tazili tendencies and Qatada's known tadlis, and that the report clashes with reason, the Quran, the Prophet's life and the principles of Islam.

Answer from 10 May 2018 · auto-transcribed, may contain errors

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Recording: Apostasy has NO punishment in Islam: A Qur'an & Sunnah Analysis by Mufti Abu Layth (at 35:16)

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Would the Prophet really call a woman wearing perfume a fornicator?

Fri, 04 May 2018 00:00:00 +0000

Would the Prophet really call a woman wearing perfume a fornicator?

No: Mufti Abu Layth says calling a woman a fornicator is the crime of qadhf under Quran 24:4, punished by the Malikis whatever the intention, and the Prophet was never obscene, so the report insults him. Mufti Abu Layth says the report slanders the Prophet, since calling a woman a fornicator is qadhf punishable under the Quran and, for the Malikis, regardless of intention, and the Prophet was never obscene and would not have labelled women this way to deter them.

Answer from 4 May 2018 · auto-transcribed, may contain errors

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Recording: On Women Wearing Perfume: Debunking Weak and Blasphemous Hadith -Mufti Abu Layth (at 10:32)

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Where the story came from: polemic, the poisoning report and the ajwa dates

Sun, 15 Apr 2018 00:00:00 +0000

Where the story came from: polemic, the poisoning report and the ajwa dates

Mufti Abu Layth believes the story is misconstrued, possibly fed by polemical rumours of the time, and notes it contradicts the hadith that ajwa dates protect from magic. Mufti Abu Layth says he believes the story of magic being done on the Prophet is definitely misconstrued.

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

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Recording: Magic: Myth and Reality in Islam by Mufti Abu Layth (at 25:03)

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

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

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

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

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When should a hadith be rejected, and can a Muslim refuse a religious command that makes no sense?

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

When should a hadith be rejected, and can a Muslim refuse a religious command that makes no sense?

A hadith is accepted only if it does not contradict reason, the transmitted sources or an established principle, as Ibn al-Jawzi wrote; the companion who refused an order to jump into a fire shows reason rightly judging a command. Mufti Abu Layth holds, following Ibn al-Jawzi, that a hadith is accepted only if it does not contradict reason, the transmitted sources or an established principle of Islam, and that the companion who refused an order to jump into a fire shows reason rightly judging a religious command.

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

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Recording: The Role Of Reason In Religion - Mufti Abu Layth (at 1:09:12)

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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What are the main problems with the hadith about Jesus returning?

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

What are the main problems with the hadith about Jesus returning?

Mufti Abu Layth says the return narrations conflict with the Quran, the Sunnah and Islam's principles, rest on solitary reports that cannot found aqidah, and contradict one another, from Constantinople to who the Dajjal is. He notes that the hadith of Jibril on faith and the Prophet's answers on the signs of the hour do not mention Jesus. Mufti Abu Layth holds that the narrations of Jesus's return conflict with the Quran, the Sunnah and the established principles of Islam, are solitary reports that are not part of creed in the way people have made them, and contradict one another.

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 15:42)

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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)

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

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

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

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

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

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

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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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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How should Muslims judge hadith that say the Prophet took Safiyya on the night of Khaybar?

Wed, 21 Feb 2018 00:00:00 +0000

How should Muslims judge hadith that say the Prophet took Safiyya on the night of Khaybar?

Weigh them against the Quran and the Prophet's character: the story contradicts the widow's waiting period, the verse on no compulsion and everything known of his conduct, and all its versions come from one conflicting source. Mufti Abu Layth says relaying it is a lie against the Prophet and the picture it draws is rape. Mufti Abu Layth holds that conflicting historical hadith must be weighed against the Quran and the Prophet's character, that the story of Safiyya taken on the night of Khaybar fails both tests and amounts to a lie against the Prophet, and that Muslims who relay it are degrading his honour.

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

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Recording: The Story of Safiyya: the Prophet's Jewish wife -Mufti Abu Layth al-Maliki (at 35:13)

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Could the Prophet have married Safiyya right after Khaybar?

Wed, 21 Feb 2018 00:00:00 +0000

Could the Prophet have married Safiyya right after Khaybar?

No: she was a widow and the Quran requires a waiting period of four months and ten days, so a marriage at Khaybar would contradict the Quran. The companions only assumed a marriage because they saw the Prophet veil her and took a victory meal for a wedding feast. Mufti Abu Layth holds that the Prophet cannot have married Safiyya at Khaybar, since as a widow she owed the Quranic waiting period of four months and ten days, and that the companions' belief that he had married her rested on Anas's assumption from seeing her veiled and a feast held.

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

Kind: general teaching

Recording: The Story of Safiyya: the Prophet's Jewish wife -Mufti Abu Layth al-Maliki (at 19:29)

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Why do the hadith about Safiyya's marriage contradict each other?

Wed, 21 Feb 2018 00:00:00 +0000

Why do the hadith about Safiyya's marriage contradict each other?

Nearly all the reports come through one companion, Anas ibn Malik, who was a teenager at Khaybar and died decades later, and they contradict each other on almost every detail, so none can be taken as it stands. Only two facts are certain: Safiyya left with the Muslims and later became the Prophet's wife. Mufti Abu Layth holds that the narrations about Safiyya's marriage, almost all transmitted through Anas ibn Malik, conflict so heavily that none is reliable as it stands, though they contain truths distorted over a long chain of transmission by meaning.

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

Kind: general teaching

Recording: The Story of Safiyya: the Prophet's Jewish wife -Mufti Abu Layth al-Maliki (at 11:37)

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

Wed, 21 Feb 2018 00:00:00 +0000

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)

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