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Recordings › Monday Nights with Mufti Abu Layth 173 · 14 Jul 2020 › Segment 15 of 42

How do I make sense of the hadith that the Prophet banned mut'ah?

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The mut'ah ban in al-Bukhari: inconsistent and turbulent reports

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Mufti Abu Layth says the reports on the banning of mut'ah are inconsistent and contradict each other, so they are hard to rely on.

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A question asks how to reconcile the report in al-Bukhari that the Prophet banned mut'ah. Mufti Abu Layth says the hadith about mut'ah are very inconsistent and turbulent and seem to contradict each other. He notes a report in which the Prophet forbids mut'ah together with donkey meat and other things, yet donkey meat is not deemed haram by everyone, the school of Madinah included, so things listed in the same hadith are not treated as haram. He adds that the reports have the Prophet permitting and forbidding it repeatedly, and that the usual explanation, that people needed it, would apply to people today as well. His connection briefly freezes during the answer.

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How do you reconcile the report in al-Bukhari that mut'ah was banned by the Prophet?

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Mufti Abu Layth says the hadith about mut'ah are very inconsistent and turbulent, seeming to contradict each other.

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“the hadith about Mota are very inconsistent and they're very turbulent they seem to they seem to contradict each other”

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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

Hillel shed leaves the most easiest - the most difficult it doesn't say that so no Arai so demi rage you do any a lot of hidden jail jewels right how do you reconcile in bihari where it says that motorized band by the prophet yeah the hadith about Mota are very inconsistent and they're very turbulent they seem to they seem to contradict each other so I

don't really I don't I don't I can see the inconsistency in them so for example there's a hadith of the Prophet saying okay I forbid Mata and I forbid donkey meat and I forbid in one day sir what's the other one but there's three things I'm on the narration

you I froze there for a moment my it's not my bad but my my process CPU bad right so but when you look at those rulings of the other things like donkey meat for example even though it's considered you know by many people makrooh I mean Haram but by certain people it's not Haram not that people necessarily eat it but you know it's not seen as Haram like the school of Medina didn't see as Haram so my point is that you see even the things

that are listed in the hadith are not deemed Haram so that's one problem then it's the fact that the Prophet makes it permissible again that makes it impermissible again that makes it permissible again that makes it impermissible again it's like what's going on here and then people say yeah that's because they needed it any think well other people need as well you know it's that's the it's like other people today are like well yeah like how

many is it already yeah so this is this are not nice you know right so what is going on in is she was the sister of vodka Turks hiding sauce I'm not sure what that means Anaya says a worker was Aisha's brother according to early sources from abdul-jabbar oh no no no I mean I wouldn't buy that I wouldn't buy

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Mufti Abu Layth. (2020, July 14). How do I make sense of the hadith that the Prophet banned mut'ah? [Video, segment 2020-07-14-S15, auto-transcribed, may contain errors]. Mufti Abu Layth Archive. Retrieved November 1, 2026, from https://muftiabulayth.org/r/a6h5lye4mn8/s/15/

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Mufti Abu Layth. 2020. "How do I make sense of the hadith that the Prophet banned mut'ah?" Video, segment 2020-07-14-S15, auto-transcribed, may contain errors. Mufti Abu Layth Archive. Recorded July 14, 2020. Accessed November 1, 2026. https://muftiabulayth.org/r/a6h5lye4mn8/s/15/

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  author = {Mufti Abu Layth},
  title = {{How do I make sense of the hadith that the Prophet banned mut'ah?}},
  year = {2020},
  month = {7},
  date = {2020-07-14},
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  url = {https://muftiabulayth.org/r/a6h5lye4mn8/s/15/},
  organization = {Mufti Abu Layth Archive},
  urldate = {2026-11-01},
  note = {Segment 2020-07-14-S15, auto-transcribed, may contain errors}
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