Recordings › Reply to Sunni (Wahhabi) Defence Pt.I -Mufti Abu Layth · 21 Feb 2018 › Segment 7 of 11
Can a hadith narrated by Jabir alone be mutawatir?
salat salaah namaz prayer salaat namaaz as-salah al-salah salawat aqidah aqeedah aqida theology aqeeda aqaid fiqah jurisprudence fikh hadeeth ahadith ahaadeeth hadis hadees ahaadith saheeh sahih hadith saheeh hadith sound hadith al-bukhari sahih al-bukhari sahih bukhari saheeh al-bukhari saheeh bukhari imam al-bukhari imaam imams prayer leader muftis mutawaatir mass-transmitted rawi raawi ruwat rijal jahannam jahanam jahannum ulama ulema ulamaa umma ummat communityNot a democracy: a narrator's grading, 'Bukhari said sahih, who are you', and the claim of tawatur
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machinesummary, machine-writtenNo: 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.
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Mufti Abu Layth finishes his first reply: the critics say not to follow the majority on fiqh or creed but demand the majority on hadith, and he asks why hadith grading should be a democracy. He then takes up a clip in which he quoted a critic's weakening of a narrator in one chain [?]; the critics, he says, googled the name, found that other critics such as Abu Zur'a [?] called him reliable, and accused him of hiding this. He replies that he actually said in the clip that even if others graded the narrator reliable, the critic he cited said otherwise, so they should pay attention before making things up. He mocks their method of asking each other whether a report is sahih, and answers the objection 'Imam Bukhari said it was sahih, who are you' by saying he is showing the hidden defects according to other hadith scholars and asking why their opinion should be worth more than his. To the claim that the hadith from Jabir is mutawatir, he says mutawatir means so many transmissions that a lie is impossible, which cannot be through Jabir alone, and that the report is not even sahih. The segment ends with a jibe at critics who overdo Arabic pronunciation to lend themselves authenticity, before he turns to the chains they quoted.
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Position stated
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.
“why should I go with majority why I mean why is this a democracy all of a sudden”
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clearly stated I said that there is a difference of opinion on this and why do I have to go with other people I'm going with when I quoted about how to McGraw Co these people I said I'm going with it why do I have to go with who you go with why you know when it comes to fifth you tell me oh don't blind follow don't blind don't go with them when it comes to art either you say don't go with the majority oh the by say look the majority of the theologians all said this the majority of the scholars of this Ummah oh don't go with majority when it comes to a hadith go with majority why should I go
with majority why I mean why is this a democracy all of a sudden so that is the first point okay so I never said that and watch my clip I actually make it very clear that they disagreed on this and I am going with this person then they quote things like he quotes he says on one point in this refutation he brings up a hadith with the Ravi that even a man el Habashi and he quotes me saying that Abu Lahab II said that he
was much rule feature holla and then first of all he says I don't know and they obviously there's a few of them and one of them is googling it and he says oh I found it here he's right he does say and he says well what's that baha Abu Salah and abuzer essays that he's reliable and then this guy says ah have you seen how musty Abu layth or Abu layth decided to hide that part first of all have some
shame I actually quoted it god damn it this is the irony what these people look at their own transmissions by eve by Eve that is weak I actually said in my video clip I said and even if people like Abu Salah said that but here the happy is saying this I actually said that so to come and say oh but why didn't he mention Amazonas name I actually said it god damn it I said even if I was her I said that so at least pay some goddamn attention
when you're listening to me right rather than just going making all these things up right so then he says oh and this is how they do this they're asking each other so what do you think hmm what do you think is this at the Asahi and the guy says oh I think it is sorry oh well bloody thank you very much oh do you now do you think it's all hey
oh oh my brother I'll be before you remember haughty thought he was sahi who the hell are you I don't give a damn about you i imam bukhari said it was sorry I know people have said it so he is our lake okay this has already been set aside this is I know it's a I'm showing you the LA according to other magazine I'm saying other people have said it's life ot so
would you brother Abu fool and would you say this is certainly a rather I would say this is I well I don't care what you would think you know what what is that supposed to mean Europe why is your opinion more valuable than mine of course it isn't hell no it isn't so that was his his his whole point was like let's ask the other guy so do you think this is oh I think this is definitely sir and then he comes out with I think the hadith from the prophet
of Jabbar is muta water through job it alone muta water means that something has so many transmissions that it's impossible to be ally right from the profit through jabbing jabbing is one person how can that be plenty motivated said that god damn let alone motor water this is an even sahi this is an even authentic and then he goes on to say
well okay you know you know it's interesting Abu layth didn't mention the other hadith he didn't you didn't bring the other chains Oh rather so let's see there what are these are the chain and you know what's funny is that when they overdo the Arabic
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Mufti Abu Layth. (2018, February 21). Can a hadith narrated by Jabir alone be mutawatir? [Video, segment 2018-02-21-S07, auto-transcribed, may contain errors]. Mufti Abu Layth Archive. Retrieved November 1, 2026, from https://muftiabulayth.org/r/8u9-aslyrze/s/7/
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@misc{abulayth-2018-02-21-S07, author = {Mufti Abu Layth}, title = {{Can a hadith narrated by Jabir alone be mutawatir?}}, year = {2018}, month = {2}, date = {2018-02-21}, howpublished = {\url{https://muftiabulayth.org/r/8u9-aslyrze/s/7/}}, url = {https://muftiabulayth.org/r/8u9-aslyrze/s/7/}, organization = {Mufti Abu Layth Archive}, urldate = {2026-11-01}, note = {Segment 2018-02-21-S07, auto-transcribed, may contain errors} }
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