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Ifk: Who was the Accused Wife? - Maaria (r) or Aisha (r)? | Mufti Abu Layth

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you know speaking about politicized i've been reading up a bit more but i won't do a full analysis here but i'll just give you a little preview i've been reading up more on this whole hadith this hadith of the great lie um sorry not the hadith the incident of the if and the more i'm reading into it i what i feel that you see because what i've found is this different narratives i definitely am inclined to the understanding that the if in the quran that is being mentioned damn that's

0:40

my throat going again wow so what i definitely do feel is that the if mentioned in the quran is referring to an incident with maria radhiallahu not the incident to do with eyeshadow on her because when you look at it just makes so much sense like um the hadith the the incident of aisha is is attributed to this battle of banil mustang which is around the sixth hijri

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or some say before that maybe fifth injury uh i've even heard some say fourth hijri but suratu noor to do with the verses of if is in eight hijri maria comes to medina in seven hijri and then falls pregnant and has a baby in eighth history so it's yeah and it's really interesting and i feel that that one it ties up with the tallies with the ramifications as well some of the and i've noticed some of the shia have actually said this as well as i've been researching it i've realized

1:58

some of the shia have said this although they feel that maybe i shall the illinois began the whole if thing i think that's a stretch um i feel this is in my understanding okay i think both incidents happened so when in early you're still okay relatively early whether it's mid uh the prophet's life in medina whatever whether it's four five or six whatever when the prophet comes back from

2:34

um i feel that there were rumors to do with aisha that did happen but they were resolved then and later on a couple of years later this incident happened with maria that people start saying and there's a hadith in in hakim by the way where aisha is actually transmitting about maria's slan that people started to say that the prophet's child they said that he uh le siddhatti that for his the prophet's excessive love to have a child

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that he claimed somebody else's child for himself and this is actually in the rewired and the sunni books you find this so in hakim it's interesting that aisha is the one speaking she says and she uses the word if to do with maria so so yeah that's my so i feel that they both happened but that one was of much more importance like as in not impo like they're both important but that one was of much more grave consequence and the verses of the quran were to do with that

3:52

but because the verses go on to not only exonerate the person but they also go on to claim that modesty and mentions believing that she's from the faithful later on in life when the whole incident began the splits between the shia and the sunnah when the camps became slightly anti-aisha i feel that people like you see it's possible it's very possible because you have to remember you see for i shall really

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herself in later life when she read the verses of if she could have identified with them as well so it's not that because remember an incident like that if we go with that it did happen so when you're reading it you're identifying with it even if it was primarily meant for someone else so i feel in later life she may have said that yes that does refer to me as well or people may have definitely kind of pushed it on her that doesn't this also refer to you and she um

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would have owned it because she could identify with it and so it's kind of true by its meaning it refers to her but although i don't feel it was revealed for her reveal for maria and then with the zubair narrative of history maria becomes inconsequential and she becomes insignificant so they just completely move her out the picture um which is another disservice that muslim scholars have really done and the muslim legacy i feel has betrayed maria radhiallahu

5:47

because it kind of really just buried this whole if story because it is in our sunni books by the way it's in sahih muslim that oh she was accused of having an affair but they don't even mention her name they try and put it off as she was a slave of the prophet they say a slave woman of the prophet um but it was you know that's not true and she was a wife and but yeah so that's an interesting thing i thought i'd just share that with you right guys we're going to start to wrap up uh you're not muslim

6:27

wallahi village tallahi you're not muslim i think you need to go back to your village uh hussain salafi [Laughter] ah right the wobblers are here right so cool right so speaking of wobblers people yeah somebody said mario was a coptic egyptian she was there's an interesting theory as well i'm still researching that

7:07

and this was more speaking with us yes mean amin who is the granddaughter of the great egyptian historian uh ahmed amin right those of you that are familiar with him so she had mentioned to me and and it's got me kind of thinking i'm still researching it though but her suggestion is that it was the zohar lifestyle you know the zohar the the kind of very um ascetic food a dietary not restrictions but but but ro the kind of dietary lifestyle the ascetic dietary

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lifestyle that the wives of the prophet had that would not then result in pregnancies and this was something she she has written about i think her books to be released next month but it's quite okay it's intriguing it's quite interesting and because maria when she came she was a coptic she came she embraces islam marries the prophet she then doesn't the wives don't like her one she's a foreigner and things like this so the prophet has a settlement for her outside of medina so she lives about three kilometers from madina

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in the awali so because of that her dietary thing is completely different she doesn't adhere to this ascetic kind of dietary lifestyle and that then aids in the pregnancy as well so that's something ustada yes mean i mean had written it's quite intriguing it's interesting i thought hmm that's uh um that's a perspective i've got to still research more about it

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Mufti Abu Layth. (2021, May 6). Ifk: Who was the Accused Wife? - Maaria (r) or Aisha (r)? | Mufti Abu Layth [Video, auto-transcribed, may contain errors]. Mufti Abu Layth Archive. Retrieved November 1, 2026, from https://muftiabulayth.org/r/5xddf00uu6e/
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