Mufti Abu Layth Archive: hadith/false-and-fabricated/about-the-prophet

Recap: the novel, insult versus critique, and the false story summarised

2022-08-19T00:00:00Z

Recap: the novel, insult versus critique, and the false story summarised

Mufti Abu Layth recaps that Rushdie's novel was an insult rather than a critique and that the satanic verses story is a fabrication rejected by al-Tabari, Ibn Khuzayma and Qadi Iyad, recommending al-Shifa and al-Albani's book.

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

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Recording: Salman Rushdie & The Satanic Verses | Mufti Abu Layth (at 1:52:45)

A more recent answer on society/blasphemy-and-free-speech exists (29 September 2024): How scholars' rhetoric fed Pakistan's blasphemy killings, in Mufti Abu Layth's view

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Which scholars accepted the satanic verses story and which rejected it?

2022-08-19T00:00:00Z

Which scholars accepted the satanic verses story and which rejected it?

Mufti Abu Layth says al-Albani and Ibn Khuzayma rejected the story as a fabrication, while Ibn Taymiyya, Muhammad ibn Abd al-Wahhab and Ibn Hajar leaned towards giving it some basis. Mufti Abu Layth says the satanic verses story was fabricated by people unhappy with Islam, as Ibn Khuzayma said, and that Ibn Taymiyya and Muhammad ibn Abd al-Wahhab were wrong to incline towards accepting it.

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

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Recording: Salman Rushdie & The Satanic Verses | Mufti Abu Layth (at 1:34:20)

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

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What does the Quran say against the satanic verses story?

2022-08-19T00:00:00Z

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

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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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Why did Ibn Hajar say the satanic verses story has some basis?

2022-08-19T00:00:00Z

Why did Ibn Hajar say the satanic verses story has some basis?

Mufti Abu Layth says Ibn Hajar wrongly argued that the many weak chains give the story a basis, and attributes the mistake to passion for the hadith project rather than malice. Mufti Abu Layth says Ibn Hajar was wrong to argue that the many weak chains give the satanic verses story a basis, a mistake he attributes to passion for the hadith project rather than to malice.

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

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Recording: Salman Rushdie & The Satanic Verses | Mufti Abu Layth (at 1:18:40)

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

2022-08-19T00:00:00Z

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

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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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Is Quran 22:52 about the satanic verses incident?

2022-08-19T00:00:00Z

Is Quran 22:52 about the satanic verses incident?

No: he rejects the link to 22:52, noting that Surah al-Hajj is Madinan, that the Prophet refused the Makkans' offers of compromise, and that the Quran calls the idols mere stone. Mufti Abu Layth says the story that the Prophet praised the idols, or that Satan spoke in his voice, is absurd, and that 22:52, in a Madinan surah, has nothing to do with it.

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

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Recording: Salman Rushdie & The Satanic Verses | Mufti Abu Layth (at 1:09:22)

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What are the satanic verses in Islamic history?

2022-08-19T00:00:00Z

What are the satanic verses in Islamic history?

Mufti Abu Layth explains that the Prophet's recitation of Surah al-Najm and the prostration of everyone present are documented, but that the added story of him praising the three goddesses is false. Mufti Abu Layth says the prostration of everyone present when the Prophet recited Surah al-Najm is documented, possibly out of respect at the mention of their gods, but that the narrations claiming the Prophet praised the three goddesses are false.

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

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Recording: Salman Rushdie & The Satanic Verses | Mufti Abu Layth (at 1:00:37)

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

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

2021-04-06T00:00:00Z

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

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

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

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Is rejecting embarrassing hadith about the Prophet just whitewashing history?

2021-02-02T00:00:00Z

Is rejecting embarrassing hadith about the Prophet just whitewashing history?

Mufti Abu Layth says the 'they would not invent it' argument is cogent at face value, but a fair critic must also ask who had a motive to fabricate a report. Mufti Abu Layth says that, to be fair, one must ask whether one can think of any motive for people to have fabricated a hadith, which critics do not do or do not do fairly.

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

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Recording: Monday Nights with Mufti #200| Q&A Unscripted & Unrestricted! 😉 | Mufti Abu Layth (at 31:34)

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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Are any hadith genuine, and what about reports confirmed by history?

2020-06-26T00:00:00Z

Are any hadith genuine, and what about reports confirmed by history?

The guest says even genuine sayings of the Prophet are not religion and that the hadith paint contradictory portraits of him. Mufti Abu Layth agrees that the Mi'raj negotiation, the child-marriage report and the Uraynah torture reports are false narrations.

Answer from 26 June 2020 · auto-transcribed, may contain errors

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Recording: Prof. Edip Yuksel | Rejecting Hadith, Rashad Khalifa & Realizing '19' | MindTrap with Mufti #27 (at 41:00)

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 I drank alcohol, are my prayers and fasts rejected for 40 days?

2019-05-24T00:00:00Z

If I drank alcohol, are my prayers and fasts rejected for 40 days?

No: the fast and prayer are valid. He calls the forty-days hadith an isolated, weak report that clashes with the Quran and reason, though alcohol stays haram. Mufti Abu Layth says the salah and fast of someone who has drunk alcohol or taken drugs remain valid.

Answer from 24 May 2019 · auto-transcribed, may contain errors

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Recording: Hadith Analysis: Does drinking alcohol or doing drugs invalidate your prayer or fast for 40 days? (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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Why should Muslims reject the hadith that the Prophet died of poison?

2018-09-17T00:00:00Z

Why should Muslims reject the hadith that the Prophet died of poison?

Following Imam Malik, a hadith that contradicts the overall message of the Quran is set aside; Mufti Abu Layth rules the poisoning report false on chain and content and says that calling the Prophet's death a poisoning insults Islam, God and the Prophet. Mufti Abu Layth holds that a hadith contradicting the overall message of the Quran must be set aside, as Imam Malik did, and that saying the Prophet died of poisoning insults Islam, God and the Prophet.

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 12:47)

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

2018-09-17T00:00:00Z

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?

2018-09-17T00:00:00Z

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

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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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Is the chain of the hadith that the Prophet died of poison reliable?

2018-09-17T00:00:00Z

Is the chain of the hadith that the Prophet died of poison reliable?

Mufti Abu Layth finds the chains unacceptable: the Bukhari version runs through Yunus, whom early critics faulted for his memory, and through al-Zuhri, who does not state that he heard it, while the Abu Dawud version has a narrator criticised for mistakes. Mufti Abu Layth holds that the chain of the poisoning report is unacceptable because Yunus was faulted by early critics for his memory and al-Zuhri does not state that he heard it.

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 3:26)

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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Was the Prophet Muhammad poisoned, and did he die from it?

2018-09-17T00:00:00Z

Was the Prophet Muhammad poisoned, and did he die from it?

No: Mufti Abu Layth says the Prophet did not die of poisoning. The report in Bukhari that he felt the poison cutting his aorta in his final illness is, in his view, a fabricated story that contradicts itself and fails on its chain. Mufti Abu Layth holds that the Prophet did not die of poisoning and that the report in which the Prophet says in his final illness that he feels the poison cutting his aorta is a fabricated story.

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 0:01)

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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Why does Mufti Abu Layth say BukhariGate matters?

2018-09-01T00:00:00Z

Why does Mufti Abu Layth say BukhariGate matters?

BukhariGate matters because the whole of Sahih al-Bukhari rests on one transmitter, al-Farabri, and because the reports in it repay the Prophet and his companions with disrespect. Mufti Abu Layth attributes their circulation to Wahhabis and their sympathisers, whom he condemns in strong terms. Mufti Abu Layth holds that BukhariGate matters because the whole of Sahih al-Bukhari rests on al-Farabri alone and because its reports repay the Prophet, Umar and Aisha with disrespect, and he attributes the circulation of these reports to Wahhabis and their sympathisers, whom he calls haters of the Prophet.

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 30:03)

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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Does Sahih al-Bukhari say the Prophet pointed to Aisha's house as the source of fitna?

2018-09-01T00:00:00Z

Does Sahih al-Bukhari say the Prophet pointed to Aisha's house as the source of fitna?

The Bukhari report in which the Prophet points to Aisha's house and says the fitna and the horn of Shaytan will rise there is, Mufti Abu Layth says, disrespectful to the Prophet and to Aisha, and Muslims should question what they pass off as authentic. Mufti Abu Layth says the Bukhari report in which the Prophet points to Aisha's house as the place where the fitna and the horn of Shaytan will rise is disrespectful to the Prophet and to Aisha, and that Muslims need to question what they present as authentic.

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 28:43)

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 is the Bukhari report about the Prophet seeing a woman beside Umar's palace in paradise?

2018-09-01T00:00:00Z

What is the Bukhari report about the Prophet seeing a woman beside Umar's palace in paradise?

The Bukhari report in which the Prophet sees a woman beside Umar's palace in paradise and turns away because of Umar's jealousy casts the Prophet in a poor light, Mufti Abu Layth says. Mufti Abu Layth says the Bukhari report in which the Prophet turns away from a woman beside Umar's palace in paradise because of Umar's jealousy casts the Prophet in a poor light.

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 13:02)

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 Prophet falling unconscious when he uncovered himself?

2018-09-01T00:00:00Z

What does Mufti Abu Layth say about the Bukhari report of the Prophet falling unconscious when he uncovered himself?

The Bukhari report that the Prophet removed his izar while carrying stones for the Kaaba, fell unconscious and was never seen naked again is, in Mufti Abu Layth's words, nonsense that disrespects the Prophet, and he dismisses the scholars' attempts to soften it. Mufti Abu Layth says the Bukhari report that the Prophet fell unconscious after removing his izar to carry stones for the Kaaba and was never seen naked again is nonsense that disrespects the Prophet, and that the scholars' efforts to soften it contradict its own wording.

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 10:23)

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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Does Sahih al-Bukhari say the Prophet forgot verses of the Quran and that there was a verse of stoning?

2018-09-01T00:00:00Z

Does Sahih al-Bukhari say the Prophet forgot verses of the Quran and that there was a verse of stoning?

Two Bukhari reports have the Prophet forgetting a verse of the Quran and Umar speaking of a verse of stoning that they used to recite. Mufti Abu Layth says there is no such verse, that this disrespects Umar and the Prophet, and that it implies the Quran has changed. Mufti Abu Layth says the Bukhari report in which Umar speaks of a verse of stoning that was revealed and recited is disrespectful to Umar and to the Quran, since there is no verse of stoning in the Quran and the report amounts to saying the Quran has changed, and he highlights another Bukhari report in which the Prophet forgets a verse.

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 5:10)

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?

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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

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

2018-05-04T00:00:00Z

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)

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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Was magic done on the Prophet? Why he rejects the report

2018-04-15T00:00:00Z

Was magic done on the Prophet? Why he rejects the report

Mufti Abu Layth rejects the report that the Prophet was bewitched, even though it is in al-Bukhari, as an insult to the Prophet that clashes with the Quran. Mufti Abu Layth says he considers the reports of magic being done on the Prophet an affront to the honour of the Prophet.

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 15:23)

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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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

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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 someone really do magic on the Prophet?

2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

Did someone really do magic on the Prophet?

No: he calls the report of magic on the Prophet falsely attributed and an affront to his honour, and says the Quls were revealed years earlier in Makkah. Mufti Abu Layth says the incident of magic being done on the Prophet in Madinah is falsely attributed.

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

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Recording: The Evil Eye has no reality in Islam - Mufti Abu Layth al-Maliki (at 6:50)

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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Are some hadith about the Prophet actually blasphemous?

2018-02-09T00:00:00Z

Are some hadith about the Prophet actually blasphemous?

Yes: Mufti Abu Layth says reports that the Prophet married a nine-year-old, was bewitched or became impotent are the real blasphemy, and urges scholars to denounce them. Mufti Abu Layth says that reports such as the Prophet having relations with a nine-year-old or becoming impotent are rubbish that should be denounced as blasphemy.

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

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Recording: Hadiths on Prophetic Miracles and Responding to Claims of Blasphemy - Mufti Abu Layth al Maliki (at 18:41)

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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Is the hadith of the crying tree trunk authentic?

2018-02-09T00:00:00Z

Is the hadith of the crying tree trunk authentic?

No: Mufti Abu Layth finds weak narrators in each chain, including those in al-Bukhari, and says only the Quran is preserved in its entirety. Mufti Abu Layth says the stories of the tree crying for the Prophet are unreliable.

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

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Recording: Hadiths on Prophetic Miracles and Responding to Claims of Blasphemy - Mufti Abu Layth al Maliki (at 7:38)

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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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

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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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