Which Son of Abraham (a.s) was Selected for Sacrifice? -Mufti Abu Layth

somebody had asked me about the ibrahim ali salaam ibrahim alaih-is-salaam which one of these sons were slaughtered this is interesting because I think we have nothing truly conclusive that tells us which son it was okay so many Muslims believe right this Tsar Olaf who keep saying we fix your camera how about we fix you instead and block you so behave

yourself before you get before you get blasted into oblivion right so now the coming back to what I was saying ibrahim ali salaam the sacrificing of his son there's two points i want to take a look at one which son and two I want to take a look at the actual sacrifice offering a sacrifice what is this about okay so these two things first of all which son was it now there

is a difference of opinion within Islam as well this is not an agreed upon fact majority some people majority of the people seem to believe it was a smile ELISA Lam and they used certain evidences certain hadith to go with the Prophet saying things like I am the son of the two two men who were almost sacrificed and so did these kind of things and the user the narrations to imply and infer that it was a smile ELISA and other people felt it was is Haq ELISA Lam amongst them they say it

was honorable hot pop radi allahu unbeliev that sahib llama say if i believe believe that as well imam malik actually believe it or not believed that it was his hawk and not his mine the great Maliki scholar from Muslim Spain or the evocative not to be the dawn and legend right of Muslim Spain he actually right he actually explains the whole difference he's got a whole book on it called I think it's called also hey iffy to be in the BA something I do have it

here some way and I went through it's a good book and he goes through all these differences of opinion and show although a worker in Harvey himself goes with the understanding that it's a smile in the end but there is no conclusive it on this matter I once sat in a lesson many years ago with a share trying to say how the Jews have got it wrong and it was an issue is is hard it was clearly smile the truth is that's false we don't have any conclusive et most Muslims we tend to believe it was his smile other Muslims believed it was his heart they were great Muslims people like in

my my league like I'm not even on hot Barbara the Aloha I eating almost say you great people of this palma so both opinions hold strength okay so that's the first aspect the second aspect is what about sacrificing your son now you see when we read the Quran it's interesting that a lot doesn't say he commanded ibrahim ali salam to sacrifice his son okay he doesn't say that

ibrahim ali salam allah relates as in rates the ibrahim ali salaam mentions to his son that he saw a dream the in me are awful minami and me as ba hawk that i saw a dream it was a really strange dream in the dream I was sacrificing you now we know in old nations and old civilizations people had offerings and they did these kind of the sacrificial rituals and things like Ibrahim alyssum does not say anyway that

Allah told me to do this Oh Allah does not say anyway he is telling ibrahim ali salaam to do this rather abraham ELISA Lam is telling his son in his old age he tells his son that look I saw in a dream that I'm sacrificing you his son who's is young at the time very young is obviously a young boy says to him that this is revelation and you should do it you have been it's a command so he says that he tells him if Alma taught math

that you need to do and you will find that I will be patient like sacrifice me that this is revelation it's it must be God telling you it must be God telling you to sacrifice me and then I could see yes I mean some people may take an angle that was it the Shaitaan giving this this kind of an insinuation that's an angle another angle is maybe even if it wasn't the Shaitaan but it was just a dream it could be I mean that's an angle

some people have used that verse except when the Shaitaan kind of threw into them thoughts about the prophets and stuff like this there is that verse and it is and you see here's Omar Soliman pública me rustling will Anna be in Allah is that tamanna alqa Shaitan for unity so this kind of verse which some people have foolishly used to justify the Satanic Verses with our prophet but this some people may argue that this was to do with that same dream and ibrahim ali salam this coming from the devil other people it doesn't have to be that though it doesn't have to be that it

could just be that sometimes you see even in psychology when you love something so much it preoccupies your mind and you have a fear of loss and people often end up dreaming nothing and ibraheem alehissalaam we know that in his old age he he was really fond of this child all of a sudden he had a son and he was really fond of him now he has this dream so he could have been just a natural dream it doesn't have to be something although that may be an interpretation but the point is that it's his son who starts

emphasising to him that no this is revelation you need to do it to the extent that he convinces ibrahim ali salaam that this must be a test and i'm going to do it and allah saves a smile and tells ibrahim ali salaam that look because of your conviction that you felt that a light commanded you to do this even though allah hadn't commanded you but because of your sheer devotion commitment to a Lada the most beloved thing to you you thought Allah has

commanded you to sacrifice it and you were even prepared to do that to go to that extent for your love of for Allah that Allah for that love not the act of sacrificing but for that love Allah highly commend ibrahim ali salam and tells him that don't let this stops him from doing that tells him sacrifice an animal the the ram that appears and we'll make this a sunnah for people that will come as well from your sunnah and this is the level that your level of devotion to

Allah even when Allah hadn't told you to do this but you felt that Allah had told you to do it maybe because of this dream and your son telling you that you were prepared to sacrifice everything for you just so you remain faithful to Allah that love and devotion from ibrahim he himself has the status of like the the commitment of a civilization almost in one man the neighbor I can he was like an uma in himself now this is the the understanding okay so I just

wanted to highlight that so people have asked things like this and this is something that atheists ask a lot as well that Ibrahim God why would God want Abraham to sacrifice his son God didn't tell Abraham to sacrifice his son so I just wanted to clarify that no way in the Quran does Allah mention that and no way does he say I wanted him to sacrifice and and do this so just to clarify these things okay so I hope that of some help