# Is there an authentic hadith that a wife may never refuse her husband sex?

*The first challenge: bring one uncriticisable hadith that a wife may not refuse her husband*

- URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/7img-l3vbcy/s/2/
- Date: 2018-08-03 · Kind: lesson · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Reply to Sunni (Wahhabi) Defence Pt. IV -Mufti Abu Layth (3:50–9:05)
- Status: general teaching
- Watch from the start of the segment: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7IMg-l3vbcY&t=230s
- Recording page: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/7img-l3vbcy/

**Topics:** Abuse in marriage; Narrator criticism; Responses to critics

**Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked):** Mufti Abu Layth says no version of the report that a wife cannot refuse her husband is free of criticism, since its chains run through al-A'mash and Qatada and carry hidden defects. He challenges his critics to produce one that cannot be faulted.

**Checked position (checked by two independent reviews, not by the channel):** Mufti Abu Layth says that the report that a woman may not refuse her husband cannot be attributed to the Prophet without blasphemy, and challenges his critics to bring one version of it whose chain he cannot show to carry weakness or hidden defects.

**Evidence, his words at 6:21:** “this kind of blasphemy is not attributed to our prophet salallahu alayhi wasalam you bring me one hadith one hadith that I can that cannot be criticized” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7IMg-l3vbcY&t=381s)

## Longer summary

Addressing the critic directly, Mufti Abu Layth says the accusations that he is ignorant rest on cut-and-paste clips and slips of the tongue, and tells him to stop running away from the topic he set out to defend: the claim that the Prophet said a woman has no right to refuse sex to her husband. He says the chains he quoted for this report come down predominantly through al-A'mash and through Qatada, and challenges the critic to bring a single sahih hadith attributing this to the Prophet that cannot be criticised, promising to show where any such report carries weakness and hidden defects ('ilal); the critic may gather the ulama of Najd to help him. He says such blasphemy is not attributed to the Prophet. In passing he dismisses a clip played to suggest he did not know a narrator's name [?], saying his point had been that even when a narrator in a chain is accepted, the one transmitting from him may be the problem, and he quotes an Urdu couplet asking how the leader of a caravan allowed it to be robbed. He repeats that the challenge is to bring one hadith, and only then will they talk.

## Sources and names cited

- Sunni Defence (YouTube channel)
- Farid [?]
- report: a wife may not refuse her husband when he calls her to his bed
- al-A'mash
- Qatada
- 'ilal (hidden defects in a chain)
- sahih

## Transcript (machine tier, 3:50–9:05)

[3:07] thing this is the kind of ridiculous blasphemous kind of a hobby defense that they are that and they then coming and attacking obviously they were attacking and attack people like me so this guy one of the key people amongst them Fareed who I referred to in one of our previous sessions as Baba Farid Athene Gangu Teli so Gangu Teli saab the iranian person is back now and look i

[3:47] want to make something clear Gangu Teli sahib no cemaat if you can inter bail of cemaat right if you can just pay attention right instead of going on about me being a juror he'll me not knowing this me not knowing this even though i first of all all those criticisms are refuted because they do a cut-and-paste job they're just stupid I'm trying to say oh look a slip of the word here oh he said Oh

[4:25] he leads a day he must be Antichrist must be at the jail ha ha stop running away this same topic that he's trying to defend marital rape he's trying to say that the Prophet said that a woman has no right to refuse sex to a husband this hadith only comes down predominantly the chains I've quoted come down through our mesh through Qatada metallocene stop running away with this nonsense bring me

[5:02] one sahih hadith one sahih hadith that cannot be criticized one Jah Jah stop this I'm if I'm such a jackal then you should be able to bring one hadith bring one then we'll talk bring one hadith forget all this trying to distract Nana na ma I know these tactics is nudge the tactics of yours blaspheming people hateful carry hatred against the prophets stop all this nonsense bring me one saya deed since I'm a

[5:41] jackal since I'm at the jail I'm a jockey llama know what I'm talking about bring me one at ease about this that justifies this rape from the Prophet that cannot be criticized I will rip and show you where that hadith carries weakness and Ilyn bring me one do not run away from this question do not change the topic bring one hadith one hadith and if you need if you need help go go to you or am i of nudged get them together compile them get them gather

[6:21] them together and tell them to help you bring one hadith that justifies this marital rape going back to the Prophet that cannot be criticized then we can speak bring one since I'm going on about me being agile me be Jah heel or not is irrelevant this kind of blasphemy is not attributed to our prophet salallahu alayhi wasalam you bring me one hadith one hadith that I can that cannot be criticized the chain the chain I'm talking about show me one hadith stop trying to change

[6:59] the discussion change the topic oh he doesn't know so look man allotment I use his name son Emmanuel homage and the point I was making there was actually about Shah Baba and yes if trying to distract this topic by saying oh by posing a video my point in that clip he brings this clip and saying oh he doesn't know Salman my point in that was simply to say because Shah Baba if somebody who claims that lease is Haram he claims that leases around people might say oh sure but is in this chain so this ought to be ok but the person transmitting from him is problematic

[7:39] that was the point which he conveniently pauses by the way forget all of this oh yeah I am added earlier he'll I don't know these anybody who studied hadith you know I must Allah Allah Hadees for one week knows more than mostly abu less well well fine bring one hadith 101 hobbies one don't change the Tauri don't run away Marah well that's a little key lap like this don't touch like round and round

[8:18] like these dogs do right that's an Arabic Ibarra don't do that bring one hadith ok don't distract either you dirty knob article yeah but our cake offal oculata Mucha resinous a colonic eatery referee Kesava don't tell me about this so that or whatever you explain how this Caravan got robbed huh it's not about the thieves or the robbers or the bandits how are you a leader of this caravan that is

[8:56] what the poet says so either order keen about the car here but our kickoff a lacuna you bring me one hadith and then we'll talk and if you've got if if you've got the nerve to tries to my challenge after that this is a challenge by the way Chilean brother my nerdy brother is a challenge so if you can first of all rise to this bring me one handy that should be easy that cannot be criticized bring it bring it hard to

## Cite

Mufti Abu Layth Archive, segment 7IMg-l3vbcY/s/2. https://muftiabulayth.org/r/7img-l3vbcy/s/2/

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