Recordings › Monday Nights with Mufti #204 | Q&A Unscripted & Unrestricted! 😉 | Mufti Abu Layth · 2 Mar 2021 › Segment 35 of 45
Is the hadith in Bukhari about Jesus coming down reliable?
salah salaah namaz prayer salaat namaaz as-salah al-salah salawat hadeeth ahadith ahaadeeth hadis hadees ahaadith malik ibn anas malik bin anas imam maalik imam malik ibn anas sahih al-bukhari sahih bukhari saheeh al-bukhari saheeh bukhari imam al-bukhari imaam imams prayer leader shafi shafei shafiite shafi'i school muftis sunna sunnat sunan prophetic practice madinah al-madinah madeenah yathribThe first Bukhari chain: unnamed narrators, al-Bukhari's practice, al-Zuhri's insertions
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machinesummary, machine-writtenThe first Bukhari chain is doubtful: al-Bukhari left two narrators unnamed, which he is known to have done deliberately, and the chain runs through al-Zuhri, who was known to insert his own words into hadith.
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Mufti Abu Layth says Qadhi calls the hadith in Bukhari and Muslim untouchable after a day and a half of research, and turns to the first report in Bukhari on the descent of Jesus, asking who the Ishaq and the Salih in its chain are, since al-Bukhari left their names ambiguous (mubham). He says al-Bukhari is known to have done this on purpose: al-Dhahabi records that he cited his teacher Muhammad ibn Yahya as Muhammad, Muhammad ibn Abdullah or Muhammad ibn Khalid, names he was not known by, when al-Bukhari had some eighty teachers called Muhammad, so as to deceive readers into thinking he meant another teacher, which Ibn Hajar and al-Dhahabi accept. He says al-Bukhari transmits from some fifteen men named Ishaq and seven named Ishaq ibn Ibrahim, that one candidate was called matruk by others, and that the Salih could be either of two Madinan narrators from al-Zuhri, one of whom al-Bukhari himself calls weak in places. He then says al-Zuhri was known for idraj, inserting his own words into hadith: a teacher of Imam Malik told him to distinguish his words from the Prophet's; Ibn Rajab relates from al-Bukhari that al-Zuhri inserted sentences and made mursal reports reach the Prophet; Abu Dawud says only half of his 2,200 hadith reach the Prophet; Ibn Hajar and al-Shafi'i dismiss his mursal reports; and al-Layth ibn Sa'd wrote to Imam Malik that they abandoned al-Zuhri for telling different parties different things, and the report that the Prophet tried to end his own life is said to come from him.
Position stated
Mufti Abu Layth says al-Bukhari on purpose referred to his teacher Muhammad ibn Yahya by names he was not known by, so as to deceive his readers.
“avoiding the name that he's known by so as to deceive the readers or the listeners into thinking this is one of his other teachers”
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now here what big d does is he mentioned certain hadith he says these hadith are untouchable see what he doesn't anticipate he doesn't anticipate the research you know the research so biggie d said he spent a day and a half doing research mary john we spent a bit longer than
that right so let's take a look at this first hadith now he says the hadith in the ali the bukhari and muslim are untouchable untouchable what is it if i was made out of iron they would have broken me like
but i'm much stronger than iron my friend so here he brings this hadith in bukhari now this hadith by the way um that with that jesus you've got the son of ishaq from yakubu ibrahim uh he's saying from his uh he says ibrahim is telling him from salia from ibn shahab from now it's interesting people if you look at this chain who is this ishaq and who is saleh why has bukhari left their names
mubham he's not kind of disclosed them why because now you may say well what's the big deal with that well buhari actually is known on several occasions to do to to kind of make names ambiguous so as to deceive his readers now for example right here you can see on the left hand side the herbie is quoting that he would use the name of his famous teacher muhammad but he would write either muhammad uh or he would write um he would write muhammad or he'd write
muhammad ibn abdullah or he'd write muhammad ibn khalid now none of these people muhammad ibn yahya was never known by those names and bukhari would do this on purpose do you know why because he has almost 80 teachers who are called muhammad so when he says muhammad you don't know which muhammad he's talking about he has 80 people muhammad ibn abdullah he has at least almost seven teachers by that name when he would use that muhammad ibn khalid he has almost three teachers by that name and note that muhammad how he's known but he on purpose is
avoiding the name that he's known by so as to deceive the readers or the listeners into thinking this is one of his other teachers ibn hajjar accepts this the habi accepts this as you can see on the left hand side right there then this is heart that you've got here so which is hark is this because the question is that one would say well you see uh because imam bukhari has almost 15 different ishaks who he transmits from so which is this some people say this is
but then hacking ibrahim he has seven different izakim ibrahims people like ibn hajjar al-jubai say this is you know the famous way others say it's or so the person is taking it from here is not he's teacher right so however there are other ishaq's ibrahim is their teacher including people like uh
who's from medina also you've got yeah i mean that there's others but okay let's take him as an example this is is also somebody buhari transmits from he transmits from him and yet he said he is says he has a problem he said he is mathruk we abandon him sadji said he is the if next person in the chain
saleh right okay who is this people say it's on but is it muhammad both of these were in madina both have transmitted from zohari and right and yet and buhari does take from these people in certain places you see the reason this that we're saying let's say
himself has to admit in places he's weak what about sorry um now you may say well is he them now you tell me when bukhari has so many different teachers by the same name and he on purpose is using mubham he's
refusing to disclose the full name when he does this as a trait he does this with muhammad yahya he he on purpose quotes him just as muhammad knowing that he's got 80 muhammad so you're going to be confused how is this then how is this reliable do you want us to accept this is just a coincidence no my friend but what about zohari the daddy people now check this out zohari is known to do it raj he's known to add into a sunnah add into a hadith people would highlight
that zohari um you would see so for example uh his contemporaries would ask him that can you please distinguish you what the words which are yours from the prophet because we know you do this a lot you mix it in would say my situation is totally different from you he would say this to zohari he says that what i say i say from my own self and you say it on the authority of the prophet so meaning your opinions you project them onto the prophet this is the teacher of imam malik saying it to
him in madina i would also say when you narrate something according to your own opinion always make it clear please that this is your opinion it's not the hadith of the prophet because this was something zohari had started to do ibn rajab narrates from bukhari that zohari would narrate a hadith on many occasions and insert sentences from himself in these hadith they would be mursal hadith as in they don't reach the prophet but he would make them reach the prophet then he just at least he blags the names imam shafi'i many of these people acknowledge this
abu dhabu says out of the 2200 hadith narrated by zohari only half reached the prophet the other half not really ibn hajjar transmits as well says that uh the mursalat you know where zuri's hadith don't reach the prophet these things are so useless he says they are like nothing but hot air that's actually his words um even imam shaffer he says his mur-salat are baseless check this out imam when writing to imam malik he says to him
you know when we used to meet ibn zuri he would there would be a difference of opinion in many things he would tell us one thing then he would go and tell a different party a different thing and he would transmit to a third party a different thing this is why we abandoned azori that's imam leith writing in his famous letter to imam malik right so you tell me is ibn shayab zori reliable and when he says he doesn't even say that but when he says that he's he blacks it the hadith of the prophet wanted to commit suicide they say it's from zuri he made it up but he just
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@misc{abulayth-2021-03-02-S35, author = {Mufti Abu Layth}, title = {{Is the hadith in Bukhari about Jesus coming down reliable?}}, year = {2021}, month = {3}, date = {2021-03-02}, howpublished = {\url{https://muftiabulayth.org/r/b1ooltqtptw/s/35/}}, url = {https://muftiabulayth.org/r/b1ooltqtptw/s/35/}, organization = {Mufti Abu Layth Archive}, urldate = {2026-11-01}, note = {Segment 2021-03-02-S35, auto-transcribed, may contain errors} }
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