Mufti Abu Layth Archive: history/sirah

How did the Prophet balance gentleness and strength?

2023-05-09T00:00:00Z

How did the Prophet balance gentleness and strength?

Mufti Abu Layth says the Prophet was tender, kissing his children, yet firm when safety demanded, riding out alone at night to check on a frightening sound. Mufti Abu Layth says the Prophet combined compassion with firmness, being firm for the well-being of people and not in an intimidating way.

Answer from 9 May 2023 · auto-transcribed, may contain errors

Kind: general teaching

Recording: Converts And The YouTube Dawah Scene | Mufti Abu Layth (at 10:04)

A more recent answer on wellbeing/character-and-virtue exists (29 September 2024): Spread love, and take account of the damage our words have done

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Was the Prophet harsh with people?

2023-05-09T00:00:00Z

Was the Prophet harsh with people?

No: Mufti Abu Layth says the Prophet was soft and attentive with people and came from mercy, unlike harsh dawah that puts others down. Mufti Abu Layth says the Prophet did not come from intimidation but from mercy and compassion for the world.

Answer from 9 May 2023 · auto-transcribed, may contain errors

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Recording: Converts And The YouTube Dawah Scene | Mufti Abu Layth (at 6:18)

A more recent answer on society/dawah-and-debate-culture exists (18 October 2025): How should Muslims engage people with very different views of the religion?

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Why did Abdullah ibn Abi Sarh leave Islam for a time?

2021-03-02T00:00:00Z

Why did Abdullah ibn Abi Sarh leave Islam for a time?

Not doubt about the Quran: he feels the man was incentivised by the Makkans and rewarded for intelligence about Madinah, and he later returned to Islam and governed in Egypt. Mufti Abu Layth says he feels the apostasy asked about was not a theological crisis but a case of being incentivised by the Makkans.

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 59:58)

A more recent answer on fiqh/public-law-and-governance/apostasy-and-blasphemy exists (29 September 2024): Is someone who says something wrong about the Prophet guilty of blasphemy?

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Has Islam become a religion about Muhammad rather than the religion he brought?

2021-03-02T00:00:00Z

Has Islam become a religion about Muhammad rather than the religion he brought?

No: there is a deep human need for a human archetype, not someone to pray to, and for Muslims that is the Prophet. He adds that his own life changed in the Prophet's mosque. Mufti Abu Layth says human beings have a fundamental need, deep within the psyche, for a human archetype, not one to pray to.

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 55:37)

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

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Was Ali born inside the Kaaba?

2021-03-02T00:00:00Z

Was Ali born inside the Kaaba?

It may have happened but is uncertain, and most likely means the homes of Banu Hashim attached to the Kaaba rather than the cube itself; Ali's greatness does not depend on it. Mufti Abu Layth says Ali's value should not be based on whether he was born in the Kaaba or not.

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 15:22)

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Are the Prophet's parents in heaven or hell?

2021-02-09T00:00:00Z

Are the Prophet's parents in heaven or hell?

Mufti Abu Layth says the Prophet's parents are unquestionably among the saved. Mufti Abu Layth says the Prophet's parents are unquestionably from the people of salvation.

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

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Recording: Monday Nights with Mufti #201| Q&A Unscripted & Unrestricted! 😉 | Mufti Abu Layth (at 2:14:22)

A more recent answer on belief/salvation-and-non-muslims exists (18 October 2025): If most people love praise and are punished, how is God the most merciful?

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Can men wear gold?

2021-02-02T00:00:00Z

Can men wear gold?

Men can wear gold, in Mufti Abu Layth's understanding; the Prophet discouraged it because Medina needed to stay on a war footing. Mufti Abu Layth says that men can wear gold in his understanding.

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 16:35)

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Who were the riders seen at Badr?

2020-12-11T00:00:00Z

Who were the riders seen at Badr?

Mufti Abu Layth takes the Badr angels as strength and vigour rather than a physical event and floats a theory that the riders seen were Persian knights of the House of Karen; the guest prefers a purely literary reading.

Answer from 11 December 2020 · auto-transcribed, may contain errors

Kind: general teaching

Recording: Dr Javad T. Hashmi | Axis of Morality & Archetypal Myths in the Quran | MindTrap 46 |Mufti Abu Layth (at 1:39:02)

A more recent answer on belief/prophethood-and-miracles exists (18 October 2025): Can the Quran be used to call the Prophet the best of creation?

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Did angels really fight at the battle of Badr?

2020-12-11T00:00:00Z

Did angels really fight at the battle of Badr?

The guest says the angels at Badr are a literary description of God strengthening the believers' hearts, since the named Muslims who killed the enemy chiefs are known, and that the same reading applies to earlier prophets' stories.

Answer from 11 December 2020 · auto-transcribed, may contain errors

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

Recording: Dr Javad T. Hashmi | Axis of Morality & Archetypal Myths in the Quran | MindTrap 46 |Mufti Abu Layth (at 1:34:56)

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Isn't the Prophet clearing the Kaaba of idols a precedent for the Hagia Sophia?

2020-07-14T00:00:00Z

Isn't the Prophet clearing the Kaaba of idols a precedent for the Hagia Sophia?

No: removing the idols from the Kaaba was about ending superstition, and cannot justify converting a museum in a secular country, which he calls a political stunt. Mufti Abu Layth says the Prophet's removal of the idols from the Kaaba, which were tied to superstition, cannot be linked to converting a museum in a secular country today.

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

Kind: general teaching

Recording: Monday Nights with Mufti Abu Layth 173 (at 1:47:58)

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Did the Prophet Muhammad ever kill anyone himself?

2020-07-14T00:00:00Z

Did the Prophet Muhammad ever kill anyone himself?

Mufti Abu Layth is not aware of such a killing and doubts the usual example, though it may have happened in battle; the Prophet's battles were all defensive in essence. Mufti Abu Layth says all of the Prophet's battles were in essence defensive, even if pre-emptively defensive.

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

Kind: general teaching

Recording: Monday Nights with Mufti Abu Layth 173 (at 40:56)

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

2020-07-03T00:00:00Z

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)

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Were the angels at Badr actually Persian knights?

2019-12-31T00:00:00Z

Were the angels at Badr actually Persian knights?

Mufti Abu Layth finds the theory that Persian knights summoned by Salman al-Farisi were taken for angels at Badr interesting but most likely untrue, and harmless even if true. Mufti Abu Layth says the theory that knights of the House of Karen helped at Badr is most likely not true, but that even if it were true it would not be problematic.

Answer from 31 December 2019 · auto-transcribed, may contain errors

Kind: general teaching

Recording: Did the angels assist in the Battle of Badr? | Mufti Abu Layth (at 7:42)

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Did angels really fight at the Battle of Badr?

2019-12-31T00:00:00Z

Did angels really fight at the Battle of Badr?

Mufti Abu Layth says many take the angelic help at Badr as symbolic language for strengthened resolve, and the companions' later descriptions as storytelling or what they felt they saw. Mufti Abu Layth says the evidence suggests the Quraysh army at Badr was probably at least a thousand strong, outnumbering the believers.

Answer from 31 December 2019 · auto-transcribed, may contain errors

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Recording: Did the angels assist in the Battle of Badr? | Mufti Abu Layth (at 0:00)

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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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

Kind: general teaching

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

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Did the Prophet ever execute anyone for leaving Islam?

2018-05-10T00:00:00Z

Did the Prophet ever execute anyone for leaving Islam?

The Prophet never executed anyone for disbelief or apostasy: he spared the hypocrite Abdullah ibn Ubayy, traded with Jews until his death, did not act against Ibn Sayyad and pardoned Abdullah ibn Abi Sarh. Mufti Abu Layth says the Prophet never executed anyone for disbelief or apostasy, pointing to his treatment of Abdullah ibn Ubayy, his dealings with Jews until his death, Ibn Sayyad and his pardon of Abdullah ibn Abi Sarh.

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

Kind: general teaching

Recording: Apostasy has NO punishment in Islam: A Qur'an & Sunnah Analysis by Mufti Abu Layth (at 11:49)

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Did the Prophet foresee women travelling alone safely?

2018-04-22T00:00:00Z

Did the Prophet foresee women travelling alone safely?

Yes: Mufti Abu Layth cites the Prophet's prophecy to Adi ibn Hatim of a lone woman travelling from Iraq to Makkah, which Adi lived to see. Mufti Abu Layth says the Prophet's prophecy to Adi ibn Hatim of a woman travelling alone from al-Hira to Makkah came true as stability came to the region.

Answer from 22 April 2018 · auto-transcribed, may contain errors

Kind: general teaching

Recording: Hadith Analysis & Fatwa: Women Can Travel Without a Mahram - Mufti Abu Layth (at 27:28)

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Why did the Prophet say women should not travel without a mahram?

2018-04-22T00:00:00Z

Why did the Prophet say women should not travel without a mahram?

For their safety: Mufti Abu Layth says the limits tracked how far the safe zone around Madinah reached, widening as treaties spread, not a rule to confine women. Mufti Abu Layth says the Prophet was not setting boundaries to confine women in these hadith but was trying to safeguard them.

Answer from 22 April 2018 · auto-transcribed, may contain errors

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Recording: Hadith Analysis & Fatwa: Women Can Travel Without a Mahram - Mufti Abu Layth (at 23:01)

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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Where did Safiyya live when she first came to Madinah?

2018-02-21T00:00:00Z

Where did Safiyya live when she first came to Madinah?

She did not live with the Prophet but was lodged with Umm Sulaym and others, and the Prophet rebuked Aisha and others who called her 'that Jew'. The feast on the road was a victory meal, not a wedding, and she embraced Islam in the months that followed. Mufti Abu Layth holds that no nikah took place on the road from Khaybar, since Safiyya was in her waiting period and had not embraced Islam, that the feast Anas took for a wedding was a victory meal, and that in Madinah she lodged in another household and embraced Islam in the following months.

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 29:57)

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Why did Safiyya ride with the Prophet on the way back from Khaybar?

2018-02-21T00:00:00Z

Why did Safiyya ride with the Prophet on the way back from Khaybar?

Because others were abusing her, the Prophet freed her and had her ride with him, laying out a cloth and offering his knee for her to mount, and covering her with his cloak when the camel fell. Mufti Abu Layth says this was kindness, not a marriage. Mufti Abu Layth holds that at Khaybar the Prophet freed Safiyya rather than marrying her, and that his having her ride with him, laying a cloth and offering his knee, and covering her with his cloak when the camel fell were acts of kindness to a woman being abused, not a marriage.

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 27:21)

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Why was Safiyya bruised when she came to the Prophet after Khaybar?

2018-02-21T00:00:00Z

Why was Safiyya bruised when she came to the Prophet after Khaybar?

Safiyya had told her husband Kinana she dreamt a moon fell into her lap; he accused her of wanting Muhammad and beat her, leaving her eye bruised when she came before the Prophet. Her uncle was a long-standing Muslim and she had spoken well of the Prophet before.

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 24:44)

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Who was Safiyya and why did the Muslims march on Khaybar?

2018-02-21T00:00:00Z

Who was Safiyya and why did the Muslims march on Khaybar?

Safiyya was the daughter of Huyayy ibn Akhtab, a chief of Banu Nadir at Khaybar who had organised the coalition against Madinah, while her uncle was a Muslim. After Hudaybiyya the Prophet marched on Khaybar's fortresses, which fell after weeks of fighting in which about eighty Muslims died. Mufti Abu Layth says that nothing in Islamic history is concrete and that there is disagreement on everything, including whether Khaybar took place in 6 or 7 AH.

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 5:12)

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Is it Islamic to name and shame someone for a sin?

2017-09-29T00:00:00Z

Is it Islamic to name and shame someone for a sin?

Naming and shaming a person for a sin is a modern tabloid practice with no basis in the Prophet's example, who addressed wrongdoing without naming anyone. Those acting as haram police are mostly unqualified, and Mufti Abu Layth notes they ignore rulings that apply to themselves. Mufti Abu Layth holds that publicly naming and shaming a person for a sin is a modern tabloid practice with no basis in the Prophet's example, since the Prophet addressed wrongdoing without naming anyone.

Answer from 29 September 2017 · auto-transcribed, may contain errors

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Recording: Propaganda against Ustadh Nouman Ali Khan - Mufti Abu Layth (at 15:41)

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If Aisha's age is a problem, aren't polygamy and the Prophet's wars problems too?

2017-01-11T00:00:00Z

If Aisha's age is a problem, aren't polygamy and the Prophet's wars problems too?

Polygamy and the Prophet's wars are not irrational and differ from marrying a child, where consent is impossible. Mufti Abu Layth says the Prophet remains a perfect role model and that he does not accept Aisha was that age. Mufti Abu Layth holds that the Prophet is a perfect role model for all times and that polygamy and his wars, unlike a marriage to a child who cannot consent, are not irrational.

Answer from 11 January 2017 · auto-transcribed, may contain errors

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Recording: Age of Aisha (ra)- Mufti Abu Layth (at 1:55:11)

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Doesn't the hadith about Aisha playing with dolls show she was a child?

2017-01-11T00:00:00Z

Doesn't the hadith about Aisha playing with dolls show she was a child?

The word 'play' is also used of adults, and the detailed figures described in the report read as figurines rather than a child's toys. The report does not show Aisha was a child. Mufti Abu Layth holds that the dolls report does not show Aisha was a child, since 'play' applies to adults and the objects described read as figurines.

Answer from 11 January 2017 · auto-transcribed, may contain errors

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Recording: Age of Aisha (ra)- Mufti Abu Layth (at 1:38:13)

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Why is Aisha's age only being questioned now, and is it just to appease the West?

2017-01-11T00:00:00Z

Why is Aisha's age only being questioned now, and is it just to appease the West?

The age was treated as an issue historically through rulings against marrying girls incapable of marriage, and it is prominent now because Islam faces more scrutiny. Mufti Abu Layth rejects the report with certainty and calls the appeasement charge preposterous. Mufti Abu Layth says he rejects the six-and-nine report with personal certainty and that doing so is a matter of consistency, not appeasement of the West.

Answer from 11 January 2017 · auto-transcribed, may contain errors

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Recording: Age of Aisha (ra)- Mufti Abu Layth (at 1:17:16)

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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Which books argue that Aisha was in her late teens when she married the Prophet?

2017-01-11T00:00:00Z

Which books argue that Aisha was in her late teens when she married the Prophet?

Several works argue Aisha was in her late teens, including ones by Habib al-Rahman Kandhlawi, Salah al-Din al-Idlibi and Khalid al-Jundi. Mufti Abu Layth has read them and the refutations written against them.

Answer from 11 January 2017 · auto-transcribed, may contain errors

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Recording: Age of Aisha (ra)- Mufti Abu Layth (at 1:14:38)

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The ramifications: jurists on marrying a minor, and the conclusion

2017-01-11T00:00:00Z

The ramifications: jurists on marrying a minor, and the conclusion

Aisha was in her late teens, most likely eighteen or nineteen, Mufti Abu Layth concludes. Jurists from early on held marriage impermissible with a girl incapable of it, and the Ottomans set a minimum age of fifteen. Mufti Abu Layth concludes that Aisha was not six or nine at her marriage but in her late teens, most likely around eighteen or nineteen.

Answer from 11 January 2017 · auto-transcribed, may contain errors

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Recording: Age of Aisha (ra)- Mufti Abu Layth (at 1:02:49)

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The reports: Hisham's Iraqi transmission, Madinan silence and Asma's age

2017-01-11T00:00:00Z

The reports: Hisham's Iraqi transmission, Madinan silence and Asma's age

The six-and-nine report rests on Hisham ibn Urwa's later Iraqi transmission and no Madinan compiler carries it. Asma's reported age makes Aisha about eighteen at her marriage. Mufti Abu Layth holds that the six-and-nine report rests on Hisham ibn Urwa's later Iraqi transmission, is not transmitted by any Madinan compiler, and is contradicted by Asma's reported age, which puts Aisha at about eighteen.

Answer from 11 January 2017 · auto-transcribed, may contain errors

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Recording: Age of Aisha (ra)- Mufti Abu Layth (at 57:37)

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The reports: Bukhari's six and nine against three other Bukhari reports

2017-01-11T00:00:00Z

The reports: Bukhari's six and nine against three other Bukhari reports

The six-and-nine report conflicts with three other Bukhari reports: Aisha as a jariyah at an early revelation, her memory of her parents' Islam and Abu Bakr's migration, and her presence at Uhud when a fourteen-year-old boy was refused. Mufti Abu Layth holds that the six-and-nine report conflicts with at least three other reports in Sahih al-Bukhari about Aisha's age.

Answer from 11 January 2017 · auto-transcribed, may contain errors

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Recording: Age of Aisha (ra)- Mufti Abu Layth (at 47:06)

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The reality: the year of sorrow and the proposal to Aisha

2017-01-11T00:00:00Z

The reality: the year of sorrow and the proposal to Aisha

Marriage was proposed to the Prophet in the year of sorrow as support and companionship, which Mufti Abu Layth says makes no sense if Aisha was six. A prior engagement and a fear she would convert her fiance also point to an older girl. Mufti Abu Layth holds that the circumstances of the year of sorrow, in which marriage was proposed to the Prophet as support and companionship, make no sense if Aisha was six at the time.

Answer from 11 January 2017 · auto-transcribed, may contain errors

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Recording: Age of Aisha (ra)- Mufti Abu Layth (at 33:58)

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The question, Mufti Abu Layth's thesis and premise one: dating in an oral culture

2017-01-11T00:00:00Z

The question, Mufti Abu Layth's thesis and premise one: dating in an oral culture

Mufti Abu Layth holds that Aisha married in her late teens, not at six or nine. His first premise is that the early Arabs kept no precise dates, so ages and years in reports often conflict. Mufti Abu Layth holds that the report that Aisha was married at six and moved in at nine is inaccurate and that she married the Prophet in her late teens.

Answer from 11 January 2017 · auto-transcribed, may contain errors

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Recording: Age of Aisha (ra)- Mufti Abu Layth (at 7:50)

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