Recordings › A response to Hamza Maqbool (Deobandi/Maliki) - Mufti Abu Layth al-Maliki · 28 Feb 2018 › Segment 2 of 5
Did the Prophet marry Safiyya on the same night she was captured?
maaliki malikite malikiyyah maliki school muftis hukm ahkam hukum hukam ahkaam koran quraan al-quran ayah aya ayat ayaat aayah aayat madinah madina al-madinah madeenah yathrib nikah nikkah nikaah nikah nama nikahnama 'iddah iddat iddaSafiyya and the waiting period: why a same-night marriage cannot stand
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machinesummary, machine-writtenNo: Mufti Abu Layth says Safiyya was a Muslim when the Prophet married her and so had to observe a waiting period, which rules out a marriage on the night of her capture.
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Mufti Abu Layth says some Muslims still object to his narrative: they reply to his point that the Prophet could not have married Safiyya there and then because she had to observe a waiting period under a verse of the Quran [?] by saying that the verse refers to Muslims and she was not a Muslim. He says it surprises him that his account troubles them while the claim that the Prophet seized her and slept with her that night does not. He answers that everyone says she was a Muslim when the Prophet married her, so the rulings of Islam applied to her. To those who say a captive need only wait one menstrual cycle, he says this goes against the Quran, and that even if it is accepted, her husband and people being killed, her embracing Islam, a menstrual cycle and a marriage cannot all have happened in one or two nights. He asks why people work so hard to defend what he calls a lowly opinion against the Prophet.
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Position stated
Mufti Abu Layth says the claim that the Prophet took Safiyya and married her on the same night cannot stand, since as a Muslim she was bound by the waiting period, and even a single menstrual cycle could not have passed in one or two nights.
“she embraces Islam becomes goes through an it has a menstrual cycle then marries the Prophet all this in one night why are you trying so hard to prove this narrative”
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was bent so this is the you know some people you can't please them so anyway and some Muslims surprisingly are still problematizing my this is the shocking thing check this out forms so they say oh you know you said this you said that Sophia the wife of the Prophet the Prophet couldn't have taken her as a slave or married her there and then because she had to sit a night there which is a verse in the Quran you know I live in a to her phone I mean come here the RunAs virgin that and but this
refers to Muslims and she was in a Muslim you know it surprises me that look first of all first of all it doesn't me telling you this this narrative bothers you and you find it can't settle well with you but what does settle well with you is that the Prophet allegedly just snatched her and raped her that night and held and that settles well with you if that you don't have any qualms in problematizing this you find a problem oh but hmm but you know was this is for
Muslim well did the Prophet marry a non-muslim is that what you believe because all the everybody say is that she was a Muslim when the Prophet married her so if you're saying yes the Prophet snatched her on that night and she embraced Islam and then the Prophet well the Mamba she embraces Islam do the rulings of Islam not apply and then people say oh but we want to go with this ruling that oh four captives they don't need that kind of an aid they're waiting period they can just wait one mental cycle well even first of all that's absurd because it goes against the Quran secondly even if you
except that what she did all of that on one night or in two nights what she let me get this right she first of all husband all this people are dying she embraces Islam becomes goes through an it has a menstrual cycle then marries the Prophet all this in one night why are you trying so hard to prove this narrative I don't get it whose side are you on you know you're working so hard to prove this kind of lowly opinion against the Prophet I
don't get it why but anyway so in response to that some people got upset because on there I mentioned that because know many of the prophets marriages were not witnessed and people like the school of Medina the the whole Maliki method says you don't need witnesses for a marriage you only need witnesses or you can make an announcement before the marriage is consummated so people get some people oh my god oh my god what's this guy saying [Music]
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Mufti Abu Layth. (2018, February 28). Did the Prophet marry Safiyya on the same night she was captured? [Video, segment 2018-02-28-S02, auto-transcribed, may contain errors]. Mufti Abu Layth Archive. Retrieved November 1, 2026, from https://muftiabulayth.org/r/bc8qsiofawe/s/2/
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Mufti Abu Layth. 2018. "Did the Prophet marry Safiyya on the same night she was captured?" Video, segment 2018-02-28-S02, auto-transcribed, may contain errors. Mufti Abu Layth Archive. Recorded February 28, 2018. Accessed November 1, 2026. https://muftiabulayth.org/r/bc8qsiofawe/s/2/
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@misc{abulayth-2018-02-28-S02, author = {Mufti Abu Layth}, title = {{Did the Prophet marry Safiyya on the same night she was captured?}}, year = {2018}, month = {2}, date = {2018-02-28}, howpublished = {\url{https://muftiabulayth.org/r/bc8qsiofawe/s/2/}}, url = {https://muftiabulayth.org/r/bc8qsiofawe/s/2/}, organization = {Mufti Abu Layth Archive}, urldate = {2026-11-01}, note = {Segment 2018-02-28-S02, auto-transcribed, may contain errors} }
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