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Quranist/Quran-Only Muslims? Hadith Relativists Vs Hadith Absolutists | Mufti Abu Layth

hadeeth ahaadeeth hadis hadees ahaadith maaliki malikite malikiyyah maliki school hanafite hanafiyyah hanafi school muftis sunna sunnat sunan prophetic practice koran quraan al-quran umma ummat community al-din ad-deen ad-din religion

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you know i i commend you see quranist you see as well i and i tell people always that whenever you're engaging with people try to understand that people too are coming from a place of love for the deen and people that are saying we are quran only in islam they too are coming from a place of deep love for the quran which is admirable and highly admirable and i commend that and and they're not coming from a hatred to

0:40

the prophet well no muslim could ever hate the prophet salallahu it's just that and you know they're diverse they they're coming from a um a kind of super skeptic super skepticism or a hyper skepticism which when it comes to epistemological sources of the ahadith and and more so you see i also feel that they've misunderstood the tradition and the living tradition or they've misunders or not appreciated

1:18

it's it's kind of depth and and also not understood maybe the tradition in its totality because the tradition in its totality is not a shafty tradition because it seems that the outcries against a kind of fight methodology which was not the majority of the ummah so the majority of the ummah were either hanafi or maliki and they were not hadith absolutists they were hadith relativists and they were more about the sunnah than they were about hadith and so

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there is a lot of misunderstanding along the way

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Mufti Abu Layth. (2021, November 20). Quranist/Quran-Only Muslims?  Hadith Relativists Vs Hadith Absolutists | Mufti Abu Layth [Video, auto-transcribed, may contain errors]. Mufti Abu Layth Archive. Retrieved November 1, 2026, from https://muftiabulayth.org/r/_lwqz9dm5zs/
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Mufti Abu Layth. 2021. "Quranist/Quran-Only Muslims?  Hadith Relativists Vs Hadith Absolutists | Mufti Abu Layth." Video, auto-transcribed, may contain errors. Mufti Abu Layth Archive. Recorded November 20, 2021. Accessed November 1, 2026. https://muftiabulayth.org/r/_lwqz9dm5zs/
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  title = {{Quranist/Quran-Only Muslims?  Hadith Relativists Vs Hadith Absolutists | Mufti Abu Layth}},
  year = {2021},
  month = {11},
  date = {2021-11-20},
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  organization = {Mufti Abu Layth Archive},
  urldate = {2026-11-01},
  note = {Auto-transcribed, may contain errors}
}