# Why does Mufti Abu Layth reject the Bukhari report of Sulayman and the hundred women? *Hadith 2819: Sulayman and the hundred women, and the criteria for rejecting a report* - URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/iijbmtxueow/s/6/ - Date: 2018-09-01 · Kind: lesson · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: BukhariGate Part 2: Sahih Bukhari is NOT so Sahih -Mufti Abu Layth (18:15–22:10) - Status: general teaching - Watch from the start of the segment: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IijbMTxUEOw&t=1095s - Recording page: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/iijbmtxueow/ **Topics:** Sahih al-Bukhari (BukhariGate); Text criticism, reason and the Quran; Stories of the prophets **Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked):** The report of Sulayman going to a hundred women in one night is absurd and disrespects a prophet, and its moral that God punished him with a disabled child paints a troubling picture of God. A report that clashes with reason, the Quran or Islamic principles goes out of the window. **Checked position (checked by two independent reviews, not by the channel):** Mufti Abu Layth says the Bukhari report of Sulayman and the hundred women is absurd, puts a prophet in a bad light and portrays God as punishing a prophet with a disabled child, and that any report which clashes with reason, the Quran and the general understanding of Islam, or uproots an Islamic principle, is to be rejected. **Evidence, his words at 21:04:** “if a hadith fits in with with the conditions with reason if it fits in with it doesn't clash with the Quran and the general understanding of Islam and it doesn't approve Islamic principles we will accept it” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IijbMTxUEOw&t=1264s) ## Longer summary Continuing the report of Sulayman, Mufti Abu Layth says that according to it none of the women conceived except one, who bore a half-formed child, and the Prophet said that had Sulayman said insha'Allah they would all have borne warriors. He calls the report absurd on its face, calculates that even at a few minutes each the night would run to fifteen or more hours, and says that apart from putting a prophet of God in such a bad light, it leaves only two reasons for not saying insha'Allah, that Sulayman forgot or that he was too arrogant or could not be bothered, and that God then punished a prophet for forgetting by giving him a disabled child, so that disabled children become a punishment from God. He asks what picture of God and of the prophets this paints. He says people need to be transparent: if a report fits with reason, does not clash with the Quran and the general understanding of Islam, and does not uproot Islamic principles, it is accepted, and if it does not it goes out of the window; Sahih al-Bukhari is not so sahih and al-Farabri, its only transmitter, is not reliable. He then introduces hadith 3663 from the virtues of the companions, transmitted from Abu al-Yaman, who says he was informed by Shu'ayb rather than that Shu'ayb narrated to him. ## Sources and names cited - Sahih al-Bukhari 2819 (Sulayman: tonight I will go to a hundred women): https://sunnah.com/bukhari:2819 - Sahih al-Bukhari - Sulayman (Solomon) - Muhammad ibn Yusuf al-Farabri - a hadith must not contradict reason, the Quran and transmitted sources, or an Islamic principle ## Transcript (machine tier, 18:15–22:10) [17:47] women or in one narration 99 women right and he said they will all give me a baby the löwe give me a child who'll become a warrior and there's a few hadeeth with the same thing now he said they will all give me and somebody says his friend said to him say in sha Allah follow me Allah insha Allah he never said it so none of them got pregnant except one and she had a handicapped child and the Prophet said if he had said insha'Allah he would have been given like healthy warrior children from all of them now first of all just look at the absurdity [18:26] in that head the absurdity in that heavy let alone the fact that ok I'm gonna have sex tonight with 100 women or 90 women in this one ninety-nine one hundred in the other narration 90 I mean let alone the fact that even if you try to calculate that in terms of timings you try to say okay let's just put a time to that like how long does this take alright so even if you could let's say if that's possible so you're gonna say what like you're gonna give minimum what like I mean you like you're gonna have [19:06] to it would be impossible you would be looking I think I did it on a calculator where I said let's say 15 minutes which is no way like that's but still if you and that went into God knows like 16 17 hours or and 10 minutes if you if you said something like that it went into I think 15 hours non-stop this apart from the ludicrous II of what it's suggesting that this is a prophet of God trying to say tonight I will have sex with 100 women that will bear me a child each will become a warrior right apart [19:45] from putting the prophet of God Solomon Ali Salaam in such bad light right his friend says to him say inshallah now there's only two reasons he didn't say inshallah either he forgot or he was too arrogant to say there's only two reasons like I can't be like okay I'll change the word arrogant can't be bothered a prophet can't be bothered to say inshallah look how you're disrespecting a prophet all he forgot fine you can forget but then because he [20:24] forgot God punished him this is a punishment so God gave him a handicapped baby so handicapped babies are a punishment from God to a prophet so God is punishing his own profit for not saying inshallah either because the prophets - arrogant to say well either because the Prophet just forgot and even though you forgot God still decide to punish him by giving him a handicapped baby what the hell is that about what the hell whoa what kind of a picture is that of God what kind of a picture is that of prophets what kind of a picture why this [21:04] is the nonsense that we are seeing this is the kind of nonsense so we need to really be transparent with ourselves that look yes if a hadith fits in with with the conditions with reason if it fits in with it doesn't clash with the Quran and the general understanding of Islam and it doesn't approve Islamic principles we will accept it if it does it will go out the window and this Sahil Buhari say this is not so sorry albahari alpha robbery is not a reliable transmitter and he's the only [21:42] transmitter you have of this book right so now look at this hadith in the virtues of the companion this hadith is hadith number three three thousand three double six three it's a hadith by again once again from abulia man who says I was informed through should I push a big navvy Hamza not by the way on a site now we all know I will you man he didn't even what did I was right the legend he was even senior to Bihari say I will ya man never - he only took one hadith ever from Scheib he just took a book which was sure I was booking sorry ## Cite Mufti Abu Layth Archive, segment IijbMTxUEOw/s/6. https://muftiabulayth.org/r/iijbmtxueow/s/6/ Not a fatwa: these answers were given to specific people at specific times. 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