# Is it Sunnah to drink camel urine as medicine? *Should you drink camel urine? The report is problematic even though it is in al-Bukhari* - URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/ecabhd3hf6u/s/1/ - Date: 2020-02-16 · Kind: question · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Drinking Camel Urine? -Mufti Abu Layth (0:00–4:55) - Status: general teaching - Watch from the start of the segment: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EcabHd3Hf6U&t=0s - Recording page: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/ecabhd3hf6u/ **Topics:** Text criticism, reason and the Quran; Sahih al-Bukhari (BukhariGate); Medical questions **Question as asked:** Can you drink camel urine, or should you drink it? **Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked):** No, you should not drink camel urine: he calls it nonsense and says the report is problematic in its chain and its text, even though it is in al-Bukhari. **Checked position (checked by two independent reviews, not by the channel):** Mufti Abu Layth says that one should not drink camel urine and calls the idea nonsense. **Evidence, his words at 0:00:** “can you drink camel's urine or should you drink it no you should not okay that is nonsense” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EcabHd3Hf6U&t=0s) ## Longer summary Returning to a point from earlier in the session, Mufti Abu Layth asks whether one can or should drink camel urine and answers that one should not, calling it nonsense and saying the report is problematic even if it is in al-Bukhari. He criticises people in Saudi Arabia who sell camel urine and feed it to children in the name of Islam. Replying to a remark that his objection rests only on criticism of the text (matn), he says it does not: he points to problems in the chain, which the captions garble, to a clash with another narration, and then to the problems in the text as well. He then relays what a viewer told him about a widespread phenomenon in Bangladesh, where Salafis promote drinking camel urine and by extension cow urine, and urges people there to stop obsessing over it and not to listen to those telling them to drink it. He adds that another version of the report in al-Bukhari does not mention it, and that the urine is not medicine. ## Sources and names cited - report: drink the urine and milk of the camels - Sahih al-Bukhari - matn (text of a report) - Salafi ## Transcript (machine tier, 0:00–4:55) [0:00] right now one thing for sure coming to what we were talking about that can you drink camel's urine or should you drink it no you should not okay that is nonsense right Hamza Sharif right now so this is this this point is this point is moot Arab and therefore believe even if it is in Bihari even if it is in Bihari life this part is problematic muhtaram cannot [0:36] accept it okay so so that some of that's how we've got to understand these things so that's so now you see people in Saudi Arabia doing that some people they sell it in shock camel urine they feed it to kids all this in and they're trying to do this in the name of Islam What nonsense is that so anyway people do not we do not need to tolerate this kind of nonsense in the name of Islam cool right what are the questions you're saying is based on [1:14] mutton criticism well it's not just based on mutton criticism I already told you I I gave you is not criticism I told you that they stir followed by by anise and then they stir for root from him by annual Basara that's two to four roots problema it's a big problem right so and then on top of that it clashes with the rewire of number serene then you've got all the mutton criticism as well oh yeah [1:49] people that's what I'm talking about that's what all right so what are the questions we looking at right so we do not accept that narration no no we do not right now right I had a question from chef a bead now chef our chef is his name that actually is his name you know sometimes I've had people say is mostly your name but this is the brothers name there's been in touch with me for a while he's from Dhaka Bangladesh and he was telling me about a phenomenon over there [2:29] that's actually quite quite rampant and he's I had no idea how widespread this issue is but he was telling me that in that Bangladesh the seller fees have made a huge big deal about we are allowed to drink camel urine and by extension by extension cow urine so I don't know what's going on in Bangladesh people right but sheer habit from that car has use in touch with me regularly has told me that so people in Bangladesh [3:04] if you are watching this in Dhaka please stop obsessing over camel urine for God's sake and do not listen to these idiots that are telling you to drink camel urine or cow urine okay please cling onto your sanity cling onto your method you do not listen need to listen to these Salafis that hadith is problematic I have discussed that in a prior hadi in a prior session Imam Bihari does I mean it is inside Bihari [3:43] it's also the other version of it is inside Bihari that does not mention it and the whole hadith not to mention is problematic so so that's what I just say so if you are they please stop obsessing with camel or cow urine for God's sake there's plenty of other things leave these fatty is not nice you know [4:16] right trust me there's no medication that's not medication people that's not what you know that's not what they mean in you know getting one of your daily fives that's not what they're talking about so yeah so people lay off lay off those showers but to shop so stay away no no no no no no no no all right so what else have we got going on people ## Cite Mufti Abu Layth Archive, segment EcabHd3Hf6U/s/1. https://muftiabulayth.org/r/ecabhd3hf6u/s/1/ Not a fatwa: these answers were given to specific people at specific times. 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