Recordings › Propaganda against Ustadh Nouman Ali Khan - Mufti Abu Layth · 29 Sep 2017 › Segment 10 of 13
Did great scholars like Ibn Hajar have private lives that would be condemned today?
hadeeth ahadith ahaadeeth hadis hadees ahaadith saheeh sahih hadith saheeh hadith sound hadith authentic tafsir tafseer exegesis tafasir tafaseer imam bukhari sahih bukhari saheeh al-bukhari saheeh bukhari imam al-bukhari muftis 'alim aalim ulama ulema ulamaa umma ummat community nikah nikkah nikaah nikah nama nikahnamaThe story of Ibn Hajar al-Asqalani and his second wife
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machinesummary, machine-writtenIbn Hajar al-Asqalani married a woman who had been his wife's slave girl without anyone warning the ummah against him, Mufti Abu Layth says, so such private conduct cannot be called abuse. Words like abuse imply real abuse and are dangerous.
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Mufti Abu Layth tells a story about Ibn Hajar al-Asqalani, whose commentary on Sahih al-Bukhari, Fath al-Bari, he calls a debt owed by the whole ummah on which everyone after him depends. He says Ibn Hajar developed a strong attraction to a slave girl of his wife, had his wife sell her, then sent someone to acquire her, set her up in a house on the other side of town and married her as a second wife, and she bore him a son when his first marriage had produced only daughters. About a year later his first wife was congratulated in the marketplace on the birth of a son, learned of the other wife, and on arriving recognised the woman who had worked for her. Mufti asks whether Ibn Hajar was abusing power, whether people would stop taking from him or warn the ummah against him, and calls the attitude shocking, adding that there are countless such examples. He concludes that words like abuse are dangerous because they imply real abuse, not the breaking of some corporate rule.
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Mufti Abu Layth holds that conduct such as Ibn Hajar al-Asqalani's marriage to his wife's former slave girl was never treated as abuse of power or as grounds to warn the ummah against him, and that the word abuse should be kept for real abuse, not the breaking of corporate rules.
“when people use words like abuse they are dangerous words because they imply the real abuse not just oh you know you may have broken some rules of corporation”
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ultimate everybody that came after is dependent upon it even a jealous Kalani famous incident about him that when he really used to like this woman that was she was a slave of his wife and you've really you had this this crush on her this mad crush and so he gets his wife to sell her so like get rid of her and he actually send somebody to go get her and then he positions her gift sets up a house for her on the other part in the others on
the other side of town where he's living so he's got his wife here and is in his kids and and and he only in this family only had daughters and he lives with her and she's his like second wife he marries her and she has a child and like a year later and and and people in the marketplace are talking about this one day so if a Hodgins first wife is in the marketplace and somebody congratulate her and says all congratulations on even the Hodgins son that was born and she says son we don't have a son we've got two daughters and he says they say oh no not with you with
the other wife so they say oh she knows other wife so she turns up when she finds out oh it's you it's you who used to work for me you've now gone and married is even a hogr abusive of power is he can we not take from even a [ __ ] should we warn the Ummah against hypnagogia what is wrong with you people like what is this this this attitude it is shocking it is absolutely shocking that's why I genuinely honestly so so
there and there are countless examples like this so when people use words like abuse they are dangerous words because they imply the real abuse not just oh you know you may have broken some rules of corporation that's not what people understand it's like if I said to you so-and-so you you know he's his own drugs if he said what's wrong with him I said well he uses drugs and he said no way and I said yeah and then I said oh no by that I mean he takes paracetamol and ibuprofen when he does when he
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