Recordings › A response to Hamza Maqbool (Deobandi/Maliki) - Mufti Abu Layth al-Maliki · 28 Feb 2018 › Segment 5 of 5
Is it fair to say Mufti Abu Layth has no knowledge of the Maliki school?
maaliki malikite malikiyyah madina al-madinah madeenah yathrib 'alim aalim deobandis deoband barelwi barelvis brelvi barelwis amanah amana amaanah amanatA challenge on Maliki knowledge, and what a critic may fairly say
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machinesummary, machine-writtenMufti Abu Layth challenges his critic to a discussion on the Maliki school and says disagreement with his interpretation is fair, but calling him ignorant of the school is misleading.
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Mufti Abu Layth says he has dedicated a large part of his life to the school of Madinah and challenges anyone to discuss the Maliki school with him, quoting the Urdu poet Dagh. He says that Hamza Maqbool's knowledge of the Maliki school does not go beyond a few books, that he did not know some of the texts Mufti has, and advises him to keep to Indo-Pakistani audiences and their Deobandi and Barelvi debates, adding that he went lightly. He says a critic could fairly say that he disagrees with Mufti's interpretation or that it is not the interpretation he is used to, but not that Mufti has no knowledge, which he says misleads people, and he invites those who doubt his knowledge to come to him directly. After saying 'next question' he returns to the matter: he calls Maqbool a relatively young scholar he has nothing against, says he did not believe the report until he saw screenshots of the tweet, and that although he regards Maqbool's own knowledge of the school of Madinah as weak he would not attack people over it.
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the Maliki method we will very clearly see within minutes who is more well-versed on the school of Medina Baba I've dedicated an entire portion of my life in passion to the school of Medina right so to say I have no knowledge of the school of Medina behave yourself that further kokia para you know this is what as dog says Doug the famous poet calico para dear journal say come me that the heavens have a messed with somebody so crazy Janaka rockin a
cartoon so dog na me if I don't burn the whole thing and raze it to the ground then you can change my this is the thing so if you want to challenge me on my knowledge of the Maliki myth have any day in every day I'm sitting right here so don't you dare say that I have when the truth is we both know and I don't want to attack you like this we both know that your knowledge of the Vatican mathematical method does not exceed a few books that's all you haven't even heard of
most of these texts I could guarantee that let alone I could name texts which I've got right here that you wouldn't even know that they're in print so this so before people point fingers please think you know this one these are not nice you know this stick to stick to your indo-pak kind of audiences you know those people shalwar kameez ha ha ha but what ding ding your day you know now what to do what to do those people they your audience those people you can call out they won't know anything about the Maliki method
right stick to those people you know those kind of still delving in there all debates of the the open these or the Braille V's or these kind of things right but if you decide to tread these grounds then tread softly my friend that's what I'd like to say because the next time and I could have pulled out so many so many books here this yet trust me when I say I went lightly I went
lightly yes a so please by all means and by oh and of course I enjoyed chilling with you as well I loved that one by the way your people want to take a dig they go oh by the way I like the guy's humor and then they're just trying to stab me with that it's like okay you know like what you could say is look you could say I disagree with this person's interpretation of things you could say you know this person's interpretation doesn't reflect the interpretation I'm used to you could say
that but to say this person has no knowledge and this person is as linked to the Maliki method as Lawrence of Arabia was to Arabia and behave yourself right behave yourself that's what I'd say nah so and let this be a lesson to these other foods like of running like this as well to people like that other people trying to find faults in my knowledge come to me upon every battle I'm right
he had come to me why why are you running to these people to assess my knowledge these people can't assess my knowledge I mean they they themselves don't have that kind of knowledge and I don't say that to kind of be arrogant I'm just being honest I just love honesty that's all so don't want to these people to assess my knowledge ask me I'm Sifu G I'm sitting right here so so this is the thing so I saw that today and I was disappointed you know because I thought wow you know he's a person who I I kind of like I said he came here and I was
very respectful and and he should have known by just visiting me and knowing that well he didn't even actually know some of these books existed when he came forget existing you didn't even know of them he should learn from that alone there okay this guy I may disagree with him but at least he knows his stuff you know maybe he's wrong yeah by all means maybe I'm misguided by all means but to say that he's ignorant he doesn't actually know these things he's making them up then that is to mislead people so anyway let's move on people next question next question so that's so
another one bites the dust keep them coming people keep them coming I'm all day every day I'm here I'm ready waiting right so what's another question that we've got here let's take some other questions he's a relatively young scholar and I've got nothing against him like I began by saying I was actually disappointed by hearing that he said this to the extent that I actually didn't believe it so when the person said in posted this life on my thing
saying that Hamza wallet Maqbool share Hamza bull said this about you I thought that that's this person's interpretation but then they posted the actual screen shots of his twitter saying this that you know oh he's you know I can safely say that basically this guy knows nothing and he's as linked to the Malachy method as Lawrence of Arabia is to Arabia that was his actual wording so he kind of disappointed me that why would you say that when the truth is we all know and anybody who's spoken to us knows that you know that actually if
anything your own knowledge of the school of Medina is quite weak but I wouldn't attack people for their knowledge of the school of Medina because to me it doesn't bother me you know like at the end of the day each for that you know to their own like I'm not here to pick on people and say he doesn't know much or he doesn't know much but it shocks me that they would say that about me I was like come on Kazuya like this one not nice this one why are you why you do this on what why this kolaveri right so anyway
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@misc{abulayth-2018-02-28-S05, author = {Mufti Abu Layth}, title = {{Is it fair to say Mufti Abu Layth has no knowledge of the Maliki school?}}, year = {2018}, month = {2}, date = {2018-02-28}, howpublished = {\url{https://muftiabulayth.org/r/bc8qsiofawe/s/5/}}, url = {https://muftiabulayth.org/r/bc8qsiofawe/s/5/}, organization = {Mufti Abu Layth Archive}, urldate = {2026-11-01}, note = {Segment 2018-02-28-S05, auto-transcribed, may contain errors} }
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