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What does Mufti Abu Layth think of al-Shaybani's critique of the Madinan school?
malik ibn anas malik bin anas imam maalik imam malik ibn anas imaam imams prayer leader ramadhan ramzan ramazan ramadaan maaliki malikite malikiyyah maliki school 'amal ahl al-madinah amal ahl al-madina amal ahl al-madeenah fatwah fatawa fatwaa fataawa legal opinion muftis hasan hadith hasan li-ghayrihi hasan li-dhatihi hasan sahih koran quraan al-quran al-madinah madeenah yathrib ulama ulema ulamaa salam as-salamu alaykum assalamu alaikum assalamualaikum salaams salam alaykum wa alaykum as-salam peace greetingAl-Shaybani's book against the people of Madinah
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machinesummary, machine-writtenMufti Abu Layth calls al-Shaybani's book an arrogant reply to Malik that failed from its title, since Islam was lived in Madinah and preserved in Malik's school.
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Asked whether he has read al-Shaybani's book against the people of Madinah, Mufti Abu Layth says he read it years ago and saw it as an arrogant attempt to respond to Imam Malik. He says neutral scholars judged that its author failed from the title itself, since it is an argument against the people of Madinah while Islam was lived, explained and taught in Madinah, where the Prophet rests, and was captured by Imam Malik; an argument against Malik alone would have been different. He says this is why the book never gained prominence, quotes Imam Malik that the Quran was revealed and the Prophet lived and taught in Madinah, and says the school of Madinah tries to capture the practice of Madinah, without claiming it captured every practice. He then thanks a super chat aimed at a critic who blocked him.
Question as read aloud · questioner not identifiedHave you read al-Hujja ala ahl al-Madina by al-Shaybani?
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Mufti Abu Layth says al-Shaybani's book against the people of Madinah failed from its title, since Islam was lived and taught in Madinah and captured by Imam Malik, whose school tries to preserve the practice of Madinah.
“his what i saw as was just an arrogant attempt to respond to imam malik”
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drive um and then what happens is repression so when you repress something you push it into deeper into the unconscious now it may then kind of reactionarily manifest in certain ways it may make you email it may trigger you to make certain conscious choices not knowing why you made them in life so that's let me just see i may have missed some super chats um i responded to that ramadan gift yeah mufti rami you're doing it you're doing it much love
uh ramadan mubarak have you read allah madina by sheibani i have years ago shukran for the super chat that's basically uh muhammad ibn hasan shaibani his what i saw as was just an arrogant attempt to respond to imam malik and really you know when he wrote that book scholars who were neutral they looked at him they looked at the title and they said anybody who wrote this has just you know he's failed right there because the title is the argument
against the people of medina and islam is simply medina so you know if your whole premise begins with this is my argument against medina then you can keep it because for us islam began in its true understanding and in its explanation it was lived and it remains rested in madina and it was then captured and taught by imam malik who was the dawn of medina so if you if your argument is against medina and
its practices then you have already lost and this is why imam sheibani his book never really gained any prominence because he lost the moment he began by penning that title now however he said against imam malik it would have been different but he doesn't see his point wasn't just imam malik he begins by trying to say madinah are wrong in their understanding and you think why don't you go back to kufa and baghdad and rest because it is in madinah as imam malik said that the quran was revealed and it is in
medina that the prophet sallam and lived and taught and it is in medina that the prophet sallallahu alaihi wasallam remains rested so imam malik said with that i rest my case so he said you know you can have whatever city you want but the islam of the people of medina will always reign supreme and and this is one of the things that really
shines in in an era of darkness if you like or a platform of darkness this is what it shines that light on the school of medina the maliki method because of the school is and i'm not saying look every fatwa every understanding has to be you know like that but it is the school that tries at least to capture the practice of medina and i'm not saying it captured necessarily every practice but that is what it was trying to do right dervish i missed your super much love for the super chat
incognito and this one is for fareed blocking me on twitter that one's going out for you man so you burn much love don't worry as i've said to fareed he can send me his paypal and i will send over a gift for him much love might allah bless you in your family shukran likewise right so people people people i think we need to start wrapping up um this has gone on way too long and i feel
uh is adam for real literal i do believe adam alaihi salaam was a literal person and i have got a video explaining what my thoughts on adam are i do accept some people see him as a metaphor uh zebra that is why i would only have a child with an intelligent and good man may allah bless you with that and bless everyone with that amen right is adam literal again well you see adam in my understanding is literal yes i do believe that i believe he was the father of the cognitive uh revolution
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