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Does 'leave what makes you doubt' mean I should always follow the strictest opinion?

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'Leave what makes you doubt': does it mean following the strictest opinion?

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No: he reads it the opposite way, since nothing should be made binding unless proven with certainty; it is a general rule about dubious matters, not a call to strictness.

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A chat request about Dhul-Qarnayn and Gog and Magog is brushed aside with a joke. A super chat then asks whether the hadith 'leave what makes you doubt for what does not' means following the strictest of all opinions. Mufti Abu Layth calls it an amazing question and says he sees it the opposite way: one does not need to believe something is obligatory or be strict unless it is proven with certainty. He says the hadith is a universal rule that can apply to dubious matters in general life, but that reading it as a call to strictness makes no sense to him; it does not say leave the easiest for the most difficult.

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Leave that which is in doubt for that in which there is no doubt: does it mean we are to follow the strictest of all possible opinions?

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Mufti Abu Layth says the hadith telling people to leave what makes them doubt does not mean following the strictest of all opinions.

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“it doesn't mean I don't see it at all about the strictest thing that doesn't make any sense to me”

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oh my god shut up give us your opinion on the Lorraine and yeah to jam a dude and why he was not attacked while building the wall happy for us rush it let me first of all build a wall around this guy on my channel right so let me just see a super chat have I missed this super handsome hound here is a hadith sugar and sugar and for the super chat by the way he leaves that in doubt for which there isn't there is no doubt what does it mean does it mean we are to follow

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strict list of all possible opinions you see now that's an amazing question you know why because this you see it's all about perspective you see I would see that completely the opposite way that anything that people if they're trying to mandate something if they try trying to believe should we believe in the obligation of something should we be strict with something well you know unless it's proven with certainty no we don't need to you see like and it could

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also meet like this hadith could mean about other things about dubious matters if for example you are just general life issues you could be doing something somebody could say something but you know it's doubtful then leave it for what isn't helpful so I think it's it's a universal rule that can be applied in many places but it doesn't mean I don't see it at all about the strictest thing that doesn't make any sense to me now why is it that leave you know that Mayuri Boca Alam I like your ebook why does that hadith mean that my URI book ll a shed or dial a sir

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Mufti Abu Layth. (2020, July 14). Does 'leave what makes you doubt' mean I should always follow the strictest opinion? [Video, segment 2020-07-14-S14, auto-transcribed, may contain errors]. Mufti Abu Layth Archive. Retrieved November 1, 2026, from https://muftiabulayth.org/r/a6h5lye4mn8/s/14/

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Mufti Abu Layth. 2020. "Does 'leave what makes you doubt' mean I should always follow the strictest opinion?" Video, segment 2020-07-14-S14, auto-transcribed, may contain errors. Mufti Abu Layth Archive. Recorded July 14, 2020. Accessed November 1, 2026. https://muftiabulayth.org/r/a6h5lye4mn8/s/14/

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  author = {Mufti Abu Layth},
  title = {{Does 'leave what makes you doubt' mean I should always follow the strictest opinion?}},
  year = {2020},
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  date = {2020-07-14},
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  organization = {Mufti Abu Layth Archive},
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  note = {Segment 2020-07-14-S14, auto-transcribed, may contain errors}
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