Mufti Abu Layth Archive: hadith/mutawatir-and-epistemology

Is the Quran-only position an argument from epistemology or from principle?

2025-10-18T00:00:00Z

Is the Quran-only position an argument from epistemology or from principle?

The guest says the Quran-only position rests on principle, since God refers earlier communities only to their books, and is confirmed by epistemology, since hadith are contradictory and insulting; Quranists reject the religious authority of hadith, not history or narrations as such.

Answer from 18 October 2025 · auto-transcribed, may contain errors

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

Recording: Br Muhammad MFG | Quranist Only Belief - A Dialogue | MindTrap #82 - Mufti Abu Layth (at 15:38)

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Can the hadith on Jesus's return be questioned, and how many of them depend on Abu Hurayra?

2021-03-14T00:00:00Z

Can the hadith on Jesus's return be questioned, and how many of them depend on Abu Hurayra?

Reports that go against reason can be questioned, and not one unquestionable hadith establishes the return: eighty percent of them come through Abu Hurayra alone, about half through one man, and the other companions cited are obscure. Mufti Abu Layth promises a continuing series, Disclosure with a big D. Mufti Abu Layth holds that reports which go against reason may be questioned, that eighty percent of the hadith on Jesus's return come through Abu Hurayra alone and about half through one man, and that the other companions cited are obscure, so no unquestionable hadith establishes the return.

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

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Recording: Reply to Yasir Qadhi's False Claims on 2nd Coming of Jesus | Mufti Abu Layth (at 2:13:58)

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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Is there really ijma that Jesus will return, and did Muhammad Abduh invent the denial?

2021-03-14T00:00:00Z

Is there really ijma that Jesus will return, and did Muhammad Abduh invent the denial?

Mufti Abu Layth says none of Qadhi's claims hold: not one of the hundred narrations is sound, Ibn Hazm recorded Muslim disagreement on the return nine centuries ago, major creed works omit it, and the Maliki authorities Qadhi cites held the reports not to be mutawatir. He announces a reply series, Disclosure with a big D. Mufti Abu Layth holds that Qadhi's claims fail: the Quran does not suggest a second coming, none of the hundred narrations is sound, Ibn Hazm recorded Muslim disagreement on the return nine centuries ago, major creed works omit it, and the Maliki authorities Qadhi cites held the reports to carry doubt rather than to be mutawatir.

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

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Recording: Reply to Yasir Qadhi's False Claims on 2nd Coming of Jesus | Mufti Abu Layth (at 1:09:48)

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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Did Yasir Qadhi say that majority scholarly opinion rests on socio-political factors?

2021-03-14T00:00:00Z

Did Yasir Qadhi say that majority scholarly opinion rests on socio-political factors?

In the clip Qadhi says correct opinion is independent of the names and number of scholars and that dominant positions rest on socio-political factors such as the Ghaznavids, the Hanbalis of Baghdad and the Seljuks. Mufti Abu Layth says this is exactly what modernists say and contradicts Qadhi's appeal to the giants on the return of Jesus.

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

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Recording: Reply to Yasir Qadhi's False Claims on 2nd Coming of Jesus | Mufti Abu Layth (at 1:01:57)

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 does Yasir Qadhi say about the claim that the return of Jesus came from Judeo-Christian sources?

2021-03-14T00:00:00Z

What does Yasir Qadhi say about the claim that the return of Jesus came from Judeo-Christian sources?

Qadhi's clip calls the claim that the return of Jesus entered Islam from Judeo-Christian sources through Wahb, Ka'b or al-Zuhri a preposterous charge without evidence that would mean the faith was corrupted and the ummah misguided for fourteen centuries. Mufti Abu Layth asks listeners to remember these words.

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

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Recording: Reply to Yasir Qadhi's False Claims on 2nd Coming of Jesus | Mufti Abu Layth (at 30:17)

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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What does Yasir Qadhi claim about the hadith on Jesus's return being mutawatir?

2021-03-14T00:00:00Z

What does Yasir Qadhi claim about the hadith on Jesus's return being mutawatir?

Qadhi's clip claims the hadith of the return are too numerous to discount, narrated from about ten companions, held to be mutawatir and found in dozens of theological works, including those of the Maliki school's leading figures. Mufti Abu Layth responds with sarcasm and says the reply is still to come.

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

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Recording: Reply to Yasir Qadhi's False Claims on 2nd Coming of Jesus | Mufti Abu Layth (at 10:34)

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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Can the hadith about Jesus's return be questioned?

2021-03-02T00:00:00Z

Can the hadith about Jesus's return be questioned?

No report on the return is beyond question: about eighty percent come through Abu Hurayra and about half through one narrator, none from Abu Bakr, Umar or Ali; the series will continue. Mufti Abu Layth says eighty percent of the hadith on Jesus's return come through Abu Hurayra alone.

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 3:17:49)

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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Is there really scholarly consensus that Jesus will return?

2021-03-02T00:00:00Z

Is there really scholarly consensus that Jesus will return?

Mufti Abu Layth rejects Qadhi's claims one by one: the Quran does not suggest a return, no narration is sound, Ibn Hazm recorded disagreement on it, and the Maliki authorities did not hold the reports to be mutawatir. Mufti Abu Layth says the Quran does not strongly suggest a second coming of Jesus, contrary to Qadhi's claim.

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

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Recording: Monday Nights with Mufti #204 | Q&A Unscripted & Unrestricted! 😉 | Mufti Abu Layth (at 2:12:52)

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 majority of scholars holding a view make it right?

2021-03-02T00:00:00Z

Does the majority of scholars holding a view make it right?

Mufti Abu Layth shows Qadhi saying that majority opinion rests on socio-political factors and that numbers do not make a view right, against his own appeal to the giants on the second coming.

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

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Recording: Monday Nights with Mufti #204 | Q&A Unscripted & Unrestricted! 😉 | Mufti Abu Layth (at 2:05:05)

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 does Yasir Qadhi say about the return of Jesus coming from Jewish and Christian sources?

2021-03-02T00:00:00Z

What does Yasir Qadhi say about the return of Jesus coming from Jewish and Christian sources?

In the clip Qadhi calls the claim that the return came from Judeo-Christian sources baseless and says it would destroy Islamic epistemology; Mufti Abu Layth marks his words for later.

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

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Recording: Monday Nights with Mufti #204 | Q&A Unscripted & Unrestricted! 😉 | Mufti Abu Layth (at 1:33:47)

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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Are the hadith about Jesus's return mutawatir, as Yasir Qadhi claims?

2021-03-02T00:00:00Z

Are the hadith about Jesus's return mutawatir, as Yasir Qadhi claims?

In the clip Qadhi says the hadith on Jesus's return are mutawatir, found in dozens of tafsir and creed works and held by the Maliki authorities; Mufti Abu Layth answers with sarcasm.

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

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Recording: Monday Nights with Mufti #204 | Q&A Unscripted & Unrestricted! 😉 | Mufti Abu Layth (at 1:13:56)

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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If a hadith is also in other books besides Bukhari, does that confirm it?

2021-01-26T00:00:00Z

If a hadith is also in other books besides Bukhari, does that confirm it?

Not necessarily: he says transmitters and editors, often with good intentions, aligned names and texts with versions they knew, as Ahmad Shakir did in al-Muhalla, so parallel versions may not be independent. Mufti Abu Layth says that later transmitters and editors, even with good intentions, may have altered reports and names to match versions they knew, so that the same hadith appearing in other books need not be independent of al-Bukhari.

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

Kind: general teaching

Recording: Monday Nights with Mufti #199 | Q&A Unscripted & Unrestricted! 😉 | Mufti Abu Layth (at 1:56:22)

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 the debate with Dr Abdullah Abdul Majid answer the BukhariGate challenge?

2021-01-26T00:00:00Z

Did the debate with Dr Abdullah Abdul Majid answer the BukhariGate challenge?

Mufti Abu Layth says the discussion did not settle BukhariGate but strengthened it, since doubts about the book's transmission mean reports contradicting reason or the Quran should be set aside. Mufti Abu Layth says the discussion did not put BukhariGate to rest but further cemented it, and that because Sahih al-Bukhari cannot be shown with certainty to reach us exactly from its author, reports in it that contradict reason, the Quran or Islam's principles should be set aside.

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 1:16:45)

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 did the seven canonical readings of the Quran come about?

2020-06-19T00:00:00Z

How did the seven canonical readings of the Quran come about?

In the second and third centuries leading reciters were given the privilege of ikhtiyar, choosing one of the inherited variants for each verse by their own criteria, and Ibn Mujahid later popularised seven of them. Mufti Abu Layth says he agrees these readings are not mutawatir and not on the level of the common reading.

Answer from 19 June 2020 · auto-transcribed, may contain errors

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Recording: Dr. Shehzad Saleem | the Preservation of the Quran & the Problem of Qira'at | MindTrap with Mufti#26 (at 52:29)

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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Is the hadith that the Quran was revealed in seven ahruf authentic, and what does it mean?

2020-06-19T00:00:00Z

Is the hadith that the Quran was revealed in seven ahruf authentic, and what does it mean?

The guest says the seven-ahruf hadith is ambiguous, as al-Suyuti admitted, that its forty-odd interpretations are inconsistent and its versions unsoundly reported and contradictory, so they cancel each other out. He refrains from guessing what the Prophet originally said.

Answer from 19 June 2020 · auto-transcribed, may contain errors

Kind: general teaching

Recording: Dr. Shehzad Saleem | the Preservation of the Quran & the Problem of Qira'at | MindTrap with Mufti#26 (at 36:47)

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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How was the Quran preserved: by memory or in writing?

2020-06-19T00:00:00Z

How was the Quran preserved: by memory or in writing?

The Quran was preserved primarily by thousands of companions memorising it and passing it on generation to generation, which is what tawatur means; writing was secondary and always needed a hafiz's testimony.

Answer from 19 June 2020 · auto-transcribed, may contain errors

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

Recording: Dr. Shehzad Saleem | the Preservation of the Quran & the Problem of Qira'at | MindTrap with Mufti#26 (at 17:05)

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

2020-04-22T00:00:00Z

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?

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Can a hadith in Sahih al-Bukhari be questioned?

2020-04-22T00:00:00Z

Can a hadith in Sahih al-Bukhari be questioned?

Sahih means Bukhari and Muslim verified the chains, which says little about the content, since reliable narrators still err and insert explanations; only the few mutawatir reports, mostly practices like the number of units in prayer, are beyond doubt. Mufti Abu Layth says he believes all the hadith on Aisha's age are weak.

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 54:33)

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 the Quran could not be corrupted like hadith, and the fashion for chains

2019-09-28T00:00:00Z

Why the Quran could not be corrupted like hadith, and the fashion for chains

Corrupting the Quran was next to impossible because it was recited en masse everywhere; hadith, written down a century later, were easy to fabricate, and chains for the Quran came later as a fashion. Mufti Abu Layth says the Quran was never transmitted through a sole transmitter but taught en masse, so problematising hadith does not problematise the Quran.

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 12:47)

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 do some scholars still insist Aisha was nine?

2018-11-30T00:00:00Z

Why do some scholars still insist Aisha was nine?

Lacking an earlier authority is no reason to keep the young age, since medieval scholars also accepted slavery and other rulings no one would defend today. No hadith gives certain knowledge, so an inconclusive report that blemishes the Prophet's honour is rejected. Mufti Abu Layth says that the lack of an earlier authority is no reason to keep the young age, since medieval scholars also held slavery acceptable and gave rulings he calls haram, and that because no hadith gives certain knowledge, an inconclusive report that blemishes the Prophet's honour is rejected.

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 15:43)

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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Is hadith the same as the sunnah, and is hadith certain knowledge?

2018-10-20T00:00:00Z

Is hadith the same as the sunnah, and is hadith certain knowledge?

The sunnah is distinct from hadith and reaches Muslims through the living tradition of fiqh, not from hadith books. Hadith are khabar ahad, not certain knowledge, so the Ash'ari and Maturidi orthodoxy does not build beliefs on them, and the Hanafis and Malikis reject solitary reports that contradict reason or their principles. Mufti Abu Layth says the sunnah is distinct from hadith and reaches Muslims through the living tradition of fiqh, that hadith are khabar ahad and so cannot found beliefs according to the Ash'ari and Maturidi orthodoxy, and that the Hanafi and Maliki schools reject solitary reports that contradict reason or their principles.

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

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Recording: A Reply to Sheikh Yasir Qadhi - Mufti Abu Layth (at 1:13:18)

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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What are the three points of Yasir Qadhi's khutbah on orthodoxy, and is hadith certain knowledge?

2018-10-20T00:00:00Z

What are the three points of Yasir Qadhi's khutbah on orthodoxy, and is hadith certain knowledge?

The khutbah's three points are that reinterpreting the Quran through reason or science is heresy, that doubting the hadith sources is heresy, and that a radical new interpretation amounts to claiming prophethood. Mufti Abu Layth agrees that rejecting hadith wholesale is wrong but says the hadith quoted for it is weak and that hadith is khabar ahad, not certain knowledge. Mufti Abu Layth says he agrees that rejecting hadith altogether is misguided, but that the hadith quoted to prove it is weak and that hadith are khabar ahad, which is not certain knowledge but good enough to act on.

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

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Recording: A Reply to Sheikh Yasir Qadhi - Mufti Abu Layth (at 3:53)

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 does hadith dogmatism fail, according to the war-wager paradox?

2018-09-20T00:00:00Z

Why does hadith dogmatism fail, according to the war-wager paradox?

Using the crocodile paradox, he argues that a sound system cannot produce an unsound result, so hadith dogmatism fails and Imam Malik's method should be followed instead. Mufti Abu Layth says hadith dogmatism, which lets reports override the Quran, does not work and that Muslims should return to the method taught by Imam Malik.

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 15:43)

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

2018-09-20T00:00:00Z

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?

2018-09-20T00:00:00Z

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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Can a life be taken on the basis of a doubtful hadith?

2018-05-10T00:00:00Z

Can a life be taken on the basis of a doubtful hadith?

There is no verse and no conclusively established hadith for killing apostates, and a life, whose sanctity is conclusive, cannot be taken on isolated reports that carry doubt; defending it while demanding religious freedom in the West is a double standard. Mufti Abu Layth says there is no verse and no conclusively established hadith for killing apostates, and that life, whose sanctity is conclusive, cannot be taken on the basis of isolated reports that carry doubt.

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 48:25)

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

2018-04-01T00:00:00Z

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)

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 are the main problems with the hadith about Jesus returning?

2018-03-15T00:00:00Z

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)

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

2018-03-15T00:00:00Z

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

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

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

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

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

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Shawkani against claimed consensus: music, following a madhhab, four wives, raf' al-yadayn

2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

Shawkani against claimed consensus: music, following a madhhab, four wives, raf' al-yadayn

Those who cite Shawkani's claim that the return is mutawatir do not follow him when he rejects other consensuses or calls raf' al-yadayn mutawatir; claimed consensuses have been overturned before. Mufti Abu Layth says Shawkani's claim that the return of Jesus is mutawatir cannot bind when Shawkani himself rejected claimed consensuses on music, following a madhhab and marrying more than four wives, and those who cite him ignore him elsewhere.

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 1:53:04)

A more recent answer on fiqh/legal-theory exists (18 October 2025): If reason helps us understand the Quran, does the reasoning of earlier scholars matter too?

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Anwar Shah Kashmiri's claim of ijma, and the scholars who rejected the return

2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

Anwar Shah Kashmiri's claim of ijma, and the scholars who rejected the return

Kashmiri's compilation of over a hundred return hadith contains mostly weak reports by his own count, and a line of Azhar and other scholars from Abduh to Muhammad al-Ghazali rejected the second coming.

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

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

Recording: PRELUDE: Why There Is NO 2nd Coming Of Jesus (as) In Islam- Mufti Abu Layth (at 1:47:50)

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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Isn't the return of Jesus established by ijma and mutawatir hadith?

2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

Isn't the return of Jesus established by ijma and mutawatir hadith?

There is no consensus on what ijma is, and tawatur is applied selectively: the same scholars reject the Gospels, Hindu miracle reports and Shia transmissions that would qualify by their own definition. Mufti Abu Layth holds that there is no consensus on what consensus is, that ijma began as collective assurance rather than a source of Sharia, and that accepting only one's own mutawatir while rejecting others' is inconsistent.

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 1:33:26)

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

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Can a hadith narrated by Jabir alone be mutawatir?

2018-02-21T00:00:00Z

Can a hadith narrated by Jabir alone be mutawatir?

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

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

Kind: general teaching

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

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

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