Recordings › False Hadith: Abu Huraira & the Thieving Devil who taught us Islam · 12 Aug 2018 › Segment 2 of 2
Did Abu Hurayra learn to recite Ayat al-Kursi at bedtime from a devil?
hadeeth ahadith ahaadeeth hadis hadees ahaadith malik ibn anas malik bin anas imam maalik imam malik ibn anas imaam imams prayer leader muftis sunna sunnat sunan prophetic practice shaytan shaitan shaytaan iblis iblees shayateen shayatin satan janna jannat koran quraan al-quran ayah aya ayaat aayah aayat verse duaa duas duaas supplication al-din ad-deen ad-din ibadah ibada ibaadah ibadat'That was the devil, but he told the truth': why Mufti Abu Layth calls the report blasphemous
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machinesummary, machine-writtenMufti Abu Layth rejects the report as blasphemous: it has the devil teaching Islam while the Prophet confirms it, against Imam Malik's principle that everything of the deen came from the Prophet. It also portrays Abu Hurayra as clumsy and disobedient and the Prophet as tolerating theft.
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Mufti Abu Layth completes the report: Abu Hurayra told the Prophet what the thief had taught him, and the Prophet said that it was the devil, but that on this occasion he had told the truth. He asks how blasphemous this is, and cites Imam Malik's statement that there is nothing of this deen except what the Prophet taught us, no path to Paradise, worship or du'a that the Prophet did not set out, whereas here the devil comes to teach Muslims about Islam and the Prophet confirms that he has not taught it himself but the devil got it right. He says the report shows Abu Hurayra to be incredibly clumsy and to disobey the Prophet, shows the Prophet not to have taught the people and to let theft from the national treasury happen, and shows a companion falling for the same trick every night; he calls it a mockery of the deen. He says such nonsense has crept into the tradition and that Muslims must be wary of reports that go against the Quran, the Sunnah and principles such as the one Imam Malik highlighted, that all the rituals of this deen were taught by the Prophet, adding that those who want the devil as their teacher are welcome to him, and moves on.
Position stated
Mufti Abu Layth holds that the report is blasphemous and a mockery of the deen, since it shows Abu Hurayra clumsy and disobedient, the Prophet failing to teach and tolerating theft from the treasury, and the devil teaching Islam, against Imam Malik's principle that everything of the deen was taught by the Prophet.
“what how blasphemous disrespectful is this hadith it shows Abu Huraira to be incredibly”
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and he teaches him something Russell ayatul kursi about before you go to sleep and read this and then Abu Huraira comes to the prophet and the Prophet says hey did something happen again and he says yes he says actually he came and this time I caught him and then he said he's gonna offer to teach me something about the religion the Prophet said oh really What did he say and he said he said this about I tell Kushi and the Prophet said you know what that was the devil however he told the truth on this occasion how blasphemous is this happy seriously let me get this right what did he mom Alex a mom Alex said that there is nothing
about this Dean except the Prophet as taught us nothing about this theme except the Prophet has taught it to us as in there is no path to Jannah like worship and DAHS and things like this that are set except the Prophet tortures but here we need the devil the devil people to come and teach us about Islam right and the Prophet ain't teaching them the Prophet saying oh oh yeah oh yeah by the way yeah that's correct I haven't taught it to you by the way but the devil's mentioned oh yeah yeah yeah you got that right what how
blasphemous disrespectful is this hadith it shows Abu Huraira to be incredibly clumsy it shows up over a dealer to disobey the Prophet it shows the Prophet to have not taught the people this this this rather in we needed the devil to come in teachers Wow it teaches the fact that somebody's thieving from the National Treasury and the profit is letting it happen it teaches the fact that the companion doesn't seem to be so fast he's falling for every night it's a mockery mockery people oh as some movies would say
Buckley McCready the mockery of the being this this is the kind of sometimes nonsense that is crept into our tradition so we have to this is why be weary that these things go against the Quran they go against the Sunnah they go against our teaching effect they go against like things like Imam Malik has highlighted that the Prophet taught us that all access all rituals of this Deen were taught to us by the Prophet okay we don't need the devil to come and teach
us those of you those of them that want the devil to be their teacher they more than welcome all right so let's move on
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Mufti Abu Layth. (2018, August 12). Did Abu Hurayra learn to recite Ayat al-Kursi at bedtime from a devil? [Video, segment 2018-08-12-S02, auto-transcribed, may contain errors]. Mufti Abu Layth Archive. Retrieved November 1, 2026, from https://muftiabulayth.org/r/a3i0x1a5cfw/s/2/
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@misc{abulayth-2018-08-12-S02, author = {Mufti Abu Layth}, title = {{Did Abu Hurayra learn to recite Ayat al-Kursi at bedtime from a devil?}}, year = {2018}, month = {8}, date = {2018-08-12}, howpublished = {\url{https://muftiabulayth.org/r/a3i0x1a5cfw/s/2/}}, url = {https://muftiabulayth.org/r/a3i0x1a5cfw/s/2/}, organization = {Mufti Abu Layth Archive}, urldate = {2026-11-01}, note = {Segment 2018-08-12-S02, auto-transcribed, may contain errors} }
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