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False Hadith: "Monkeys Stoning a Fornicating Monkey"
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machineauto-transcribed, may contain errors · source: youtube auto · click a time to seek · dotted terms open the glossarybut yeah so right coming back to stoning I was gonna say there's two things that come to my mind one there's a hadith in Sahil body once again another fabricated misrepresented hadith about a companion saying oh I saw monkeys fornicate and one of them fornicated and the monkeys got together and stoned that monkey that is you gotta be joking right these kind of things or like animals don't do sitting like it like whether animals was pelting each other or not is not an act
of stoning okay because they were fornicating like that it doesn't the animal kingdom doesn't work like that okay it doesn't work like I mean yes they will attack each other they will pelt each other they would but it doesn't work with these kind of imaginative realities like fornication fornication is an imaginative reality in the sense of as is marriage its marriage is part of the imaginative realm it's not actually it doesn't actually exist I mean it's something that's in our minds it's an institution that we have built up as part of the imaginative realm religion has recognized it for its kind of purposive function in society but to
assume animals think like that and they have constructs like fornication marriage stuff like this is absurd right so these kind of things you see it once again it ridicules religion right animals monkeys they realize one monkey at fornicated so they got together and they stoned the monkey to death like what what on earth are you talking about like yes I'm not saying monkeys may pelt each other with stones they may even kill each other I'm not saying that doesn't happen but it's not based on these concepts okay it's not like a conceptual like thing going on
like hey you know that monkey has violated the social norm of relationships therefore we need to sanction that monkey under code so-and-so which divine justice or let's stone that monkey today [Laughter] is absurd what the hell that's another example so anyway that came to my mind so that scene that's a hadith in Sahil Bihari which obviously is false and I'm
not saying you see the whole I'm not saying that whether somebody saw monkeys throwing stones at each other has to be false that obviously would happen all the time monkeys would Pelt each other but all this narrative is nothing but creative writing like monkeys the animals don't have these constructs like this okay they don't think like that but this is exactly why we need to find comb religion from these cobwebs because the line is messenger free from this kind of stuff
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Mufti Abu Layth. (2018, August 1). False Hadith: "Monkeys Stoning a Fornicating Monkey" [Video, auto-transcribed, may contain errors]. Mufti Abu Layth Archive. Retrieved November 1, 2026, from https://muftiabulayth.org/r/jjh6xcsfhv4/
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@misc{abulayth-JjH6xcsfHv4, author = {Mufti Abu Layth}, title = {{False Hadith: "Monkeys Stoning a Fornicating Monkey"}}, year = {2018}, month = {8}, date = {2018-08-01}, howpublished = {\url{https://muftiabulayth.org/r/jjh6xcsfhv4/}}, url = {https://muftiabulayth.org/r/jjh6xcsfhv4/}, organization = {Mufti Abu Layth Archive}, urldate = {2026-11-01}, note = {Auto-transcribed, may contain errors} }