Mufti Abu Layth Archive: hadith/false-and-fabricated

Why does Mufti Abu Layth see the Quran-only movement as a reaction of anger?

Sat, 18 Oct 2025 00:00:00 +0000

Why does Mufti Abu Layth see the Quran-only movement as a reaction of anger?

Mufti Abu Layth sees the Quran-only movement as a reaction of anger, sometimes justified, to hadith that are misused, such as the Bukhari report on Aisha's age, the report on killing apostates and reports used to justify abuse; the question is what Quranists actually mean by rejecting hadith. Mufti Abu Layth says he perceives the Quranist movement as a reaction of anger to hadith that are misused, an anger sometimes justified, and he holds that Aisha married in her late teens, that the hadith on killing the apostate is fabricated and its application was political, and that hadith are wrongly used to justify abuse and misogyny.

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Recording: Br Muhammad MFG | Quranist Only Belief - A Dialogue | MindTrap #82 - Mufti Abu Layth (at 7:32)

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

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

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.

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

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Why do some religious people dislike laughter?

Tue, 13 Apr 2021 00:00:00 +0000

Why do some religious people dislike laughter?

Mufti Abu Layth says humour lets ordinary people see absurdity and question authority, which is why institutional religion dislikes it and why reports against laughter were fabricated. Mufti Abu Layth says institutionalised religion has always disliked humour because satire lets ordinary people see absurdity and question authority, and that reports against laughing much were fabricated for this reason.

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Recording: Monday Nights with Mufti #210 | Q&A Unscripted & Unrestricted! 😉 | Mufti Abu Layth (at 1:10:13)

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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Where does the belief in the Mahdi come from?

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

Where does the belief in the Mahdi come from?

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

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

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

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Is the hadith about a woman breastfeeding the adult Salim authentic?

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

Is the hadith about a woman breastfeeding the adult Salim authentic?

Mufti Abu Layth calls the report of the adult Salim being suckled fabricated and mocks al-Albani's fatwa permitting it directly, welcoming Mohammed Hijab's attack on it as a sign he is outgrowing Salafism. Mufti Abu Layth says the report that the Prophet told a woman to let the grown Salim drink her milk is fabricated, because it is ridiculous.

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Recording: Monday Nights with Mufti #204 | Q&A Unscripted & Unrestricted! 😉 | Mufti Abu Layth (at 3:21:30)

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

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Do Muslims have to believe that Jesus will come back?

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

Do Muslims have to believe that Jesus will come back?

Mufti Abu Layth rejects the hadith of Jesus returning as a judge who offers Islam or the sword, saying it came from Christian belief and clashes with the Quran's no compulsion in religion. Mufti Abu Layth says the hadith of Jesus descending as a judge on earth was made up from Christian belief taken from the Bible.

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

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Recording: Caller runs off from the debate - Will Jesus Return | Mufti Abu Layth (at 0:01)

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

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

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

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

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

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Umayyad, Abbasid and Zubayrid politics behind the recording of history

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

Umayyad, Abbasid and Zubayrid politics behind the recording of history

Mufti Abu Layth argues that rival Umayyad, Abbasid and Zubayrid narratives gave motives to shape reports such as those through Hisham ibn Urwa. Mufti Abu Layth says that the Abbasid movement, when it rose to overthrow the Umayyads, was a Shia movement.

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Recording: Monday Nights with Mufti #200| Q&A Unscripted & Unrestricted! 😉 | Mufti Abu Layth (at 37:45)

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How could hadith chains and texts have been standardised over time?

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

How could hadith chains and texts have been standardised over time?

Mufti Abu Layth says editors who standardised variant chains and texts, as Ahmad Shakir did with Ibn Jurayj's version, erased how reports were really transmitted, and that this may have happened unnoticed in the classical collections. Mufti Abu Layth says editors who standardise variant chains and texts to match the majority, even with good intentions, erase evidence of how reports were actually transmitted, and that this may also have happened unnoticed with the classical hadith collections.

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Recording: Monday Nights with Mufti #199 | Q&A Unscripted & Unrestricted! 😉 | Mufti Abu Layth (at 2:04:13)

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Is the hadith 'if there were a prophet after me it would be Umar' authentic?

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

Is the hadith 'if there were a prophet after me it would be Umar' authentic?

Mufti Abu Layth says the hadith is a fabrication, made up to glorify Umar; one may revere Umar and still disagree with his opinions. Mufti Abu Layth says the hadith 'if there were a prophet after me it would be Umar' is not an established hadith from the Prophet but a fabrication.

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Recording: Monday Nights with Mufti #197 | Q&A Unscripted & Unrestricted! 😉 | Mufti Abu Layth (at 2:56:34)

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Do I have to be in a state of purity to say verses of the Quran?

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

Do I have to be in a state of purity to say verses of the Quran?

Mufti Abu Layth says religion should be natural, not ritualistic: the menstrual state is not impure, and revelation came to the Prophet while in bed with Aisha. Mufti Abu Layth says these kinds of hadiths are to him an encouragement showing that the deen ought to be very natural to our lives.

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Recording: Monday Nights with Mufti #197 | Q&A Unscripted & Unrestricted! 😉 | Mufti Abu Layth (at 39:18)

A more recent answer on fiqh/purification exists (18 October 2025): Why does the guest's prayer have no fixed number of units, and what counts as wudu?

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Do any authentic hadith prove jinn possession?

Sat, 21 Nov 2020 00:00:00 +0000

Do any authentic hadith prove jinn possession?

The hadith cited for possession prove nothing: the Bukhari report that Satan runs in the veins concerns suspicion, the Bukhari report of the epileptic woman treats epilepsy as an illness to be borne patiently, and the remaining reports are weak. Mufti Abu Layth says the hadith cited for possession prove nothing: the Bukhari report that Satan runs in the veins concerns suspicion, the Bukhari report of the epileptic woman treats epilepsy as an illness to be borne patiently, and the remaining reports in Ibn Majah and elsewhere are weak.

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Recording: There is no jinn possession in Islam (reply to Sh Omar Suleiman's video) | Mufti Abu Layth (at 34:00)

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Why did most commentators say God commanded the sacrifice?

Wed, 28 Oct 2020 00:00:00 +0000

Why did most commentators say God commanded the sacrifice?

Ibn Abbas is reported to have read Ibrahim's words as 'I think I have been commanded', and some commentators say the relief itself was the test. Mufti Abu Layth attributes the common view to early Muslims absorbing Jewish narratives. Mufti Abu Layth says the traditional view that God commanded the sacrifice entered Islamic thought through Jewish and Judaeo-Christian narratives taken by early Muslims, and he cites the reading attributed to Ibn Abbas that Ibrahim saw something that suggested to him he had been commanded.

Answer from 28 October 2020 · auto-transcribed, may contain errors

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Recording: "God did NOT ask Abraham to sacrifice his son" | Mufti Abu Layth (at 11:55)

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

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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.

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Recording: Monday Nights with Mufti #179 | Q&A Unscripted & Unrestricted! 😉 | Mufti Abu Layth (at 2:06:49)

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Were the hadith about the black flags against the Abbasids?

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

Were the hadith about the black flags against the Abbasids?

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

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

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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

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

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Was the hadith literature a conspiracy against the Quran?

Fri, 26 Jun 2020 00:00:00 +0000

Was the hadith literature a conspiracy against the Quran?

The guest says the hadith corpus is a deliberate conspiracy against the Quran by its enemies, including the Umayyads, and that reports such as the Banu Qurayza massacre and the killing of a woman critic were fabricated to justify later rulers' crimes.

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Recording: Prof. Edip Yuksel | Rejecting Hadith, Rashad Khalifa & Realizing '19' | MindTrap with Mufti #27 (at 21:29)

A more recent answer on hadith/quran-only-movement exists (18 October 2025): How should Muslims engage people with very different views of the religion?

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Why people fabricated hadith: good intentions, false memories, money and politics

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

Why people fabricated hadith: good intentions, false memories, money and politics

Hadith were fabricated for many reasons: pious intentions, false memories, malice, commercial interests, and political and sectarian aims on all sides. Mufti Abu Layth says some people fabricated teachings with good intentions, saying they lied for the Prophet rather than against him.

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Recording: Does criticising Hadith transmission mean criticising the Quran tranmssion? | Mufti Abu Layth (at 7:38)

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Does the Sana'a manuscript show that the Quran was changed?

Fri, 01 Mar 2019 00:00:00 +0000

Does the Sana'a manuscript show that the Quran was changed?

The Sana'a manuscript and others such as the Birmingham manuscript date to the first century of Islam, when the Quran was the one text Muslims documented and taught everywhere. The Quran was too widespread and too distinctive in style to corrupt profitably, which is why fabrication targeted hadith instead. Mufti Abu Layth holds that the Sana'a find does not show an evolving Quran: the manuscript dates to the first century like others, the Quran was the one text documented and taught everywhere from the start, and it was too widespread and too distinctive in style to corrupt, so fabrication targeted hadith instead.

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Recording: In Depth: The Sanaʽa Manuscript -Mufti Abu Layth (at 7:47)

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Do Muslims really get 72 virgins in Paradise?

Mon, 08 Oct 2018 00:00:00 +0000

Do Muslims really get 72 virgins in Paradise?

The number 72 or 73 has no basis and comes from a fabricated or very weak report that became an old wives' tale. The Quran does mention women and virgins in Paradise in modest terms, and some non-sahih reports speak of sexual relations there. Mufti Abu Layth says there is no mention anywhere of a number of 72 or 73 virgins, which he thinks may come from a fabricated or extremely weak report, while the Quran does mention women and virgins in Paradise in modest terms and some non-sahih reports speak of sexual relations there.

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Recording: What Islam says about '72 Virgins' in Paradise -Mufti Abu Layth (at 0:00)

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Are the hadith about the khilafah authentic?

Mon, 03 Sep 2018 00:00:00 +0000

Are the hadith about the khilafah authentic?

Mufti Abu Layth says every hadith about the khilafah is fabricated, since the notion did not exist in the Prophet's lifetime and the Companions did not know them. Mufti Abu Layth says every hadith about the khilafah is fabricated.

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Recording: Response to Abdullah al Andalusi (at 12:04)

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More troubling reports: Umar's stoning verse, the adulterous monkeys, women in hellfire

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

More troubling reports: Umar's stoning verse, the adulterous monkeys, women in hellfire

Reports such as monkeys stoning an adulterous monkey, women lacking intellect and women filling hellfire are fabricated or misunderstood. Adultery is a human institution that animals cannot commit, and most crime and bloodshed is committed by men. Mufti Abu Layth says the Bukhari report of monkeys stoning an adulterer makes no sense, since adultery belongs to the human institution of marriage, which does not exist among animals.

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Recording: BukhariGate Part 1: Sahih Bukhari is NOT so Sahih -Mufti Abu Layth (at 43:54)

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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Solomon's ninety women, the rich held back from paradise, Fatima angry with Abu Bakr

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

Solomon's ninety women, the rich held back from paradise, Fatima angry with Abu Bakr

The reports of Solomon's ninety women, the rich held back from paradise and Fatima dying angry with Abu Bakr are all in Bukhari, and he calls the first disgusting and disrespectful to a prophet. Mufti Abu Layth says the Bukhari report of Solomon vowing to sleep with ninety women and being punished with a disabled child for not saying 'if Allah wills' is disgusting and disrespectful to a prophet of God.

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Recording: BukhariGate Part 1: Sahih Bukhari is NOT so Sahih -Mufti Abu Layth (at 28:02)

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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Problematic reports in Bukhari: the Isra, Moses and the rock, magic on the Prophet

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

Problematic reports in Bukhari: the Isra, Moses and the rock, magic on the Prophet

Several reports in Bukhari are factually wrong or disrespectful: the Isra dated before prophethood, a woman spurning the Prophet, Moses chasing a rock, a verse corrected on the spot, and magic making the Prophet forget intercourse. He also holds the night journey to have been a vision. Mufti Abu Layth says these Bukhari reports contain a factual error, dating the night journey before prophethood, and portray the Prophet and Moses in a disrespectful and irrational light; he adds that he holds the night journey to have been a vision.

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Recording: BukhariGate Part 1: Sahih Bukhari is NOT so Sahih -Mufti Abu Layth (at 18:23)

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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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.

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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.

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

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Are there authentic hadith showing the Prophet casting out jinn?

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

Are there authentic hadith showing the Prophet casting out jinn?

No report of the Prophet expelling a jinn is free of criticism: the Ya'la ibn Murra and Umm Aban reports are weak, and the sound version of Uthman ibn Abi al-As's story in Sahih Muslim mentions no jinn at all, as al-Nawawi points out. Mufti Abu Layth asks why a Prophet sent as a mercy would never have taught about so common a danger. Mufti Abu Layth holds that no hadith cited for jinn possession is free of criticism, that the sound version of Uthman ibn Abi al-As's complaint in Sahih Muslim mentions no jinn, as al-Nawawi notes, and that the Prophet, sent as a mercy to mankind, never taught about so ubiquitous a danger in any sound transmission.

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Recording: Jinn: Myth and Reality in Islam by Mufti Abu Layth (at 13:03)

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

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

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.

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

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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.

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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)

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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How could fabricated hadith have crept into mainstream Islam?

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

How could fabricated hadith have crept into mainstream Islam?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Kind: general teaching

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

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

Watch on YouTube at 1:17:41 · Open the segment

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

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

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

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

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

Kind: general teaching

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

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

Watch on YouTube at 1:12:25 · Open the segment