Recordings › BukhariGate Part 2: Sahih Bukhari is NOT so Sahih -Mufti Abu Layth · 1 Sep 2018 › Segment 7 of 10
What does Mufti Abu Layth say about the Bukhari report of the wolf and the cow that spoke?
hadeeth ahadith ahaadeeth hadis hadees ahaadith imam bukhari sahih al-bukhari sahih bukhari saheeh al-bukhari saheeh bukhari imam al-bukhari muftis rawi raawi ruwat rijal iman imaan eemaan eeman sahabah sahaba sahabi sahabiyyah sahabiyat subhan allah subhaanallah subhanallaah ma sha allah masha'allah masha allah mashaa allahHadith 3663: the talking wolf and cow, and an anachronism in the Prophet's words
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machinesummary, machine-writtenThe Bukhari report in which a wolf and a cow speak eloquent Arabic about purpose and the future is absurd, Mufti Abu Layth says, and the phrase radi Allahu anhuma placed in the Prophet's mouth is an anachronism from a later age.
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Mufti Abu Layth first notes as a side point that Abu al-Yaman, who is senior to al-Bukhari, is said to have heard only one hadith directly from Shu'ayb and to have transmitted the rest from a book. In the report, Abu Hurayra relates that the Prophet said a wolf took a shepherd's sheep, and when the shepherd tried to retrieve it the wolf spoke eloquent Arabic, asking who would guard the sheep on the day of the wild beasts when it alone was shepherd; the report then jumps to a man riding a cow, which turned to him and said it was not created for riding but for ploughing, upon which the people said subhanAllah and the Prophet said that he, Abu Bakr and Umar believed in it. Mufti points out that the words radi Allahu anhuma, which the Prophet is made to use of Abu Bakr and Umar, came into use long afterwards, and although a narrator might have inserted them, the whole story has a wolf and a cow speaking Arabic and grasping concepts such as purpose and future events that animals do not have. He calls the description absurd and the chain poor.
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Mufti Abu Layth says the Bukhari report of the talking wolf and cow is absurd, since animals do not grasp concepts such as purpose and future events, that its chain is poor, and that the phrase radi Allahu anhuma attributed to the Prophet is an anachronism from a later age.
“these words came much after like weave like muslims we use these words when we're gonna speak about the Companions”
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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
transmitting it but put that aside that's a side discussion in this hadith the Prophet said somebody said Abu Huraira says I heard the prophecy waltz one day venom our enemy he that there was a shepherd amongst his sheep a wolf came and took his sheep so the shepherd tried to take it back so the wolf turned to him and said so the wolf spoke the wolf spoke Arabic yes the wolf said Mandla hyoma saba lie meaning who will get this on the day when there is no shepherd
no male cell aha in Haiti when I'm the only shepherd like the wolf so not only did the wolf speak the wolf spoke eloquently La Manga right so the wolf spoke eloquently so once he's doing this another man like so and then whilst a man so the hadith seems to jump to another scenario that walls a man was one day riding he was riding a cow like he was on top of the cow riding a cow so fell tougher that's Eleison the cow into
the man I can think of some other jokes but I'm not gonna say them right so God where my humor takes me out so this guy so the cow turns to him and he says the cow says in Elam luckily hada the cow is speaking for Sierra Wikia so the cow says I have indeed I have not been created for this while lacking me who left a little health but I've been created for plowing the fields for
colonist so people said subhanAllah wow this is you know amazing for calling Nabi and then the Messenger of Allah said o Allah he I in the I bring faith on this like I have faith on this story to be true in the ottoman of italic i believe in that whatever worker whoa Omar abdul-fattah but check this interesting thing apart from the absurdity of this description of the story and the chain being so stupid as well as I mentioned but put those things aside here the Prophet goes
on to say I believe in this and Oh butter and all marble even is radi allahu anhu ma the prophet uses the words radi allahu anhu ma these words were used like this these words came much after like weave like muslims we use these words when we're gonna speak about the Companions so as you can see the Prophet says radi allahu anhu ma like mashallah so me and my companions are the allahu anhu ma like and which is
clearly made now somebody could say yeah well ok the the raw we just put that in but the whole story look at it trying to say that these wolves speaking arabic cow speak arabic cows don't understand concepts like they don't understand concepts like teleological purpose and you know there's a purpose for this and and moves don't understand also have concepts of like okay like future planning and ok what will happen on that day and animals don't think like this
for God's sake for God's sake this is okay so let's just take one to others and I'll show you something interesting now check this out people they say hadith in Bukhari hadith number three four three one once again through a boolean man saying shy Akbar nah he didn't say I had nothing on because you know this one I'm not true
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@misc{abulayth-2018-09-01-S07, author = {Mufti Abu Layth}, title = {{What does Mufti Abu Layth say about the Bukhari report of the wolf and the cow that spoke?}}, year = {2018}, month = {9}, date = {2018-09-01}, howpublished = {\url{https://muftiabulayth.org/r/iijbmtxueow/s/7/}}, url = {https://muftiabulayth.org/r/iijbmtxueow/s/7/}, organization = {Mufti Abu Layth Archive}, urldate = {2026-11-01}, note = {Segment 2018-09-01-S07, auto-transcribed, may contain errors} }
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