# Did the Prophet take Safiyya the night her husband was killed, as the Tommy Robinson clip claims? *The viral Tommy Robinson clip: a Muslim debater concedes the rape narrative about Safiyya* - URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/dper6y4mgwa/s/1/ - Date: 2018-02-21 · Kind: lesson · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: The Story of Safiyya: the Prophet's Jewish wife -Mufti Abu Layth al-Maliki (0:00–5:12) - Status: general teaching - Watch from the start of the segment: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dpeR6Y4MGwA&t=0s - Recording page: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/dper6y4mgwa/ **Topics:** The wives of the Prophet; Dawah and debate culture; Replies to attacks on the Prophet **Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked):** No: Mufti Abu Layth says the story conceded by the Muslim debater is false and that, as described, it would be rape, so conceding it and arguing over the word is indefensible. Muslims who have not studied Islamic history should not debate these subjects. **Checked position (checked by two independent reviews, not by the channel):** Mufti Abu Layth says that Muslims who have not studied Islam should not debate far-right figures, and that the scenario the debater conceded, killing Safiyya's husband and father and taking her that night, can only be described as rape and is not what happened. **Evidence, his words at 3:09:** “so what do you mean where does it say that's rape that is not what happened why are you conceding to them why are you accepting this” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dpeR6Y4MGwA&t=189s) ## Longer summary Mufti Abu Layth moves on to the claim about how the Prophet married Safiyya, his wife of Jewish ancestry, prompted by a viral video in which a Muslim chases Tommy Robinson to debate him. He pleads with Muslims who have not studied Islam not to do this, since their five minutes of fame does Islam far more harm than good. In the clip Robinson asks whether it is true that the Prophet, after killing Safiyya's father and husband, took her as his own that night, and the Muslim answers yes; asked where the books say it was rape, Mufti says that killing a woman's husband and father in front of her, dragging her away as a slave and having relations with her that night could only be rape, so there is no point conceding the scenario and quibbling over the word. He says Islamic history is intricate and full of transmitted nonsense, and those who have not studied it should let their egos take a hit and step back. He adds that the debater also affirmed that Aisha was nine and 'developed', which he calls a sick response; he has made a detailed video on Aisha's age and finds the narrative of the Prophet marrying a child blasphemous. He then turns to Safiyya's background. ## Sources and names cited - Safiyya - Tommy Robinson - Aisha ## Transcript (machine tier, 0:00–5:12) [0:00] I want to move on to this other thing which is linked to this and that is this claim of the profit how around the circumstances of how the profit married his Jewish his wife who was of Jewish ancestry Sophia or the Allah one-half now there's a video that went viral of Tommy Robinson and some of the far-right that keep using this point those of you just tuning in I want you to click like click share I want you to get this out there because I want people to have [0:36] access to this right so there's this video out there where some Muslim is debating he's chasing Tommy Robinson to debate him and Muslims do this and I want to ask you right look please for the love of God don't do these things right leave it honestly you are not that capable and I respect that you guys might do a lot of good things people might do a lot of good things I respect [1:13] that but these issues you do Islam much more harm than you do good you know your five-minute fame of like wow I attacked a you know I confronted a far-right person right and Muslims are gonna all clap for you and like you know kiss your behind right this is no good because the harm you are doing Islam is so so outweighs this right honestly so in this discussion the person the first [1:50] thing this person asks him is it true that the Prophet after murdering his the father and the husband of Sophia took her as his own and had her on that night is this true and this guy says yourself Wow Wow I am genuinely lost for words what do you mean yes so and then he says back to [2:30] Tommy Robinson and this is just one example he says but where does it say in the books that he raped her are you for real if I got a woman who's just been married killed her husband according to this narration in front of her killed her father dragged her away as my slave and had sex with her that night I really doubt that is gonna be a sense of romantic passion between the two of us of course that's gonna be god damn right [3:09] what do you think she's gonna do so what do you mean where does it say that's rape that is not what happened why are you conceding to them why are you accepting this and allowing them to circulate this nonsense so right so first of all so I want to make that point clear that look please these issues are intricate issues the issue of Islamic history is intricately cuz there's so much nonsense that's being transmitted this truth is well this nonsense as well don't just if you haven't studied Islam don't go out there [3:49] being the voice of Islam right just back out of it let your ego take a little hit it's okay and then he affirms yes so what the iShare was nine years old she was developed what the hell what do you mean developed what kind of a sick responses that developed nine year old what do you mean this is the prophet of God if this was any other man you would condemn it so you're saying it's okay for your prophet to do all these things so I have answered in detail I've made an elaborate [4:26] video about the age of Aisha so watch it and seriously what disappoints me is that some of these people have see me and they do know this this narrative but they still refuse to and they want to tow this kind of this this anti Islamic Islamophobic narrative of the Prophet marrying a child and I find that blasphemous I'm gonna be honest with you but now let's get back to this point of this in this issue about Sofia right now Sofia of the olavo on now just to give [5:06] you some background she she was a Jewish woman from a tribe of from bunny na Beebe that lived in a place called Faber and her father was one of the chief people right so his name is her gay even after her yeah even after and he had met the Prophet before on a few occasions he was one of the most kind of vile people against the Prophet what's interesting is his brother Abu Yasser embraced Islam very early on and still lived with them ## Cite Mufti Abu Layth Archive, segment dpeR6Y4MGwA/s/1. https://muftiabulayth.org/r/dper6y4mgwa/s/1/ Not a fatwa: these answers were given to specific people at specific times. 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