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Can al-Firabri, the transmitter of Sahih al-Bukhari, be trusted?

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Al-Firabri, sole transmitter of Sahih al-Bukhari: somewhat dubious

QuestionLive chat · questioner not identifiedAnswered 9 Feb 2021Monday Nights with Mufti Abu Layth Segment 11 of 37 in the recording2021-02-09-S11

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Mufti Abu Layth says al-Firabri deserves some suspicion: not evil, but not the great imam later generations made him.

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A chat question asks for Mufti Abu Layth's opinion of al-Firabri. Mufti says al-Firabri, the sole transmitter of Sahih al-Bukhari, is somewhat dubious, carefully caveating that he is not evil or defamed. He points to al-Firabri's grandiose claim that tens of thousands had transmitted the book from al-Bukhari and that only he remained, which he says suggests ego play and calls for a pinch of salt. Mufti says al-Firabri was not a great imam in his own time and that this status was back-projected onto him because of the later success of the book he transmitted.

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What is your opinion on al-Firabri, Muhammad ibn Yusuf?

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Mufti Abu Layth says al-Firabri, the transmitter of Sahih al-Bukhari, is somewhat dubious and that there must be some level of suspicion towards him.

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“so he's somewhat dubious um i think i'm not saying he's evil or is bad or something but he's somebody there must be some level of suspicion”

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in that tv series i fully advocate i mean i fully think it was epic amazing it's got my vote but yeah right so what is going on people what is going on mufti what are you what is your opinion on frabri muhammad ibn yusuf al or farrad the verb goes to fabricate i are fabricating

is um all right i'll check some super chats in just a moment forever is the only soul transmitter of sahil bukhari he is a dubious somewhat somewhat let me caveat that people caveatory speech right so he's somewhat dubious um i think i'm not saying he's evil or is bad or something but he's somebody there must be some level of suspicion

towards him some level even if it's a small level with some level of suspicion towards robbery because of certain statements that he made that was such so grandiose in nature like 90 000 70 000 people transmitted bukhari from imam bukhari and only i am today the soul transmitter the soul people [Laughter] so this makes you think that there's a lot of ego play going on here with this character

and and then since bukhari is such a huge uh thing for you know later on with sunitam i think we have to take this into um we have to just kind of zone in a bit on it and just be and take it with a pinch of salt what he's saying so hmm okay let's examine all the hadith individually that's my thoughts on fabri uh i don't he was not a he was not an evil person and he was not a defamed character

was somebody that's been vilified in his time he was not but likewise he was not this great imam that later people back projected onto him you know because he did something he became like this major imam and it's like hmm that's rather convenient so it doesn't you know he transmits this and it becomes later on a huge success it does not make him a major imam of his day and age you could say that you know thank god he did this so he's so

endeared and revered by me but to to to you know claim he was this major imam in the past is just it's misleading and it's simply not true mufti could this ayah be speaking about dmt and the intoxication of death will bring the truth that is what you are trying to escape

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Mufti Abu Layth Archive, segment 2021-02-09-S11, auto-transcribed, may contain errors. https://muftiabulayth.org/r/l4n4wd2jjps/s/11/ (accessed 1 November 2026)

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Mufti Abu Layth. (2021, February 9). Can al-Firabri, the transmitter of Sahih al-Bukhari, be trusted? [Video, segment 2021-02-09-S11, auto-transcribed, may contain errors]. Mufti Abu Layth Archive. Retrieved November 1, 2026, from https://muftiabulayth.org/r/l4n4wd2jjps/s/11/

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Mufti Abu Layth. 2021. "Can al-Firabri, the transmitter of Sahih al-Bukhari, be trusted?" Video, segment 2021-02-09-S11, auto-transcribed, may contain errors. Mufti Abu Layth Archive. Recorded February 9, 2021. Accessed November 1, 2026. https://muftiabulayth.org/r/l4n4wd2jjps/s/11/

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  author = {Mufti Abu Layth},
  title = {{Can al-Firabri, the transmitter of Sahih al-Bukhari, be trusted?}},
  year = {2021},
  month = {2},
  date = {2021-02-09},
  howpublished = {\url{https://muftiabulayth.org/r/l4n4wd2jjps/s/11/}},
  url = {https://muftiabulayth.org/r/l4n4wd2jjps/s/11/},
  organization = {Mufti Abu Layth Archive},
  urldate = {2026-11-01},
  note = {Segment 2021-02-09-S11, auto-transcribed, may contain errors}
}

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