# Is the hadith about conquering Constantinople authentic?

*The hadith on the army that will conquer Constantinople*

- URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/a6h5lye4mn8/s/28/
- Date: 2020-07-14 · Kind: question · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Monday Nights with Mufti Abu Layth 173 (1:46:03–1:47:19)
- Status: general teaching
- Watch from the start of the segment: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a6H5lYE4MN8&t=6363s
- Recording page: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/a6h5lye4mn8/

**Topics:** False and fabricated hadith; Text criticism, reason and the Quran

**Question as asked:** What about the hadith that the army will conquer Constantinople?

**Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked):** It may be authentic, since Constantinople symbolised Byzantine power, but he feels many further hadith about it were fabricated to encourage campaigns.

**Checked position (checked by two independent reviews, not by the channel):** Mufti Abu Layth says it seems very plausible to him that the Prophet may have foretold the conquest of Constantinople, because it symbolised power in that region.

**Evidence, his words at 1:46:40:** “I do feel that it may have had a a significant that the Prophet may have said it seems very plausible because not so much of because of it but more so” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a6H5lYE4MN8&t=6400s)

## Longer summary

A chat question asks about the hadith that an army will conquer Constantinople. Mufti Abu Layth says many such hadith were made up, but the Prophet may have said it: Constantinople was the symbol of Byzantine power, and from his vision he may have seen that Islam would one day conquer it, which it did. He feels that because it symbolised utmost power Muslims became obsessed with it and fabricated further hadith to encourage military expeditions, but that the original saying seems very plausible.

## Sources and names cited

- report: constantinople will be conquered by an army of my ummah
- the conquest of Constantinople

## Transcript (machine tier, 1:46:03–1:47:19)

[1:45:25] absolute sense to me and that it makes absolute sense to me that [Music] you Oh sugar and children sorry I'm just really no I so struggle to multitask but it makes absolute sense to me to follow that the prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam would have legislated as well in addition to the Quran and to follow that and he would have even be Quist and allowed his Ummah to inherit that tool that they would continue to add to

[1:46:03] the Sharia so that makes perfect sense to me most he may be protected shukran shukran what about the hadith that the army will conquer Constantinople yeah I feel that this they may have been some hadith I think some what many of these hadith are made up but I think they may have been because Constantinople was a symbol of power of the Byzantine Empire the Prophet may have you know from his

[1:46:40] vision his prophecy seen that Islam will even conquer that someday which it did so I feel that may be true and because it was seen as the symbol of utmost power therefore Muslims were obsessed with him I feel many of them fabricated further hadith to kind of encourage these these military expeditions but I do feel that it may have had a a significant that the Prophet may have said it seems very plausible because not so much of because of it but more so

## Cite

Mufti Abu Layth Archive, segment a6H5lYE4MN8/s/28. https://muftiabulayth.org/r/a6h5lye4mn8/s/28/

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