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Stop calling Bukhari the most authentic book after the Quran; fiqh preserved the living Sunnah
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machinesummary, machine-writtenSahih al-Bukhari is an excellent effort but should not be called the most authentic book after the Quran; hadith are sifted, while fiqh and the madhhabs carry the Sunnah in living form.
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Mufti Abu Layth continues Ibn Hazm's point that a report contradicting the principles need not have its narrators checked, saying this was taught from Abu Hanifa and Malik down to Ibn Hazm and Ibn al-Jawzi, and that others do the same without admitting it: they dismiss fully chained Shia reports that Fatima was upset, and Bukhari's report of the Prophet attempting to end his life, as fabrications, yet refuse the same scrutiny elsewhere. He asks people to stop saying Bukhari is the most authentic book after the Quran, a statement that upsets him: Bukhari made an excellent effort and he prays God rewards him, though like any sane Muslim he wonders why certain hadith were included, and Bukhari did not ask anyone to believe them blindly; the comparison with the Quran is where Muslims went wrong and will lead to hurt when faults are found. He says hadith are an attempt to preserve the Sunnah, to be sifted against the Quran, reason and the principles, and that fiqh, documented separately from hadith, preserved Islam as a lived heritage in the madhhabs, through which the Sunnah is found in living form. He closes this part by offering these as his thoughts as a brother in Islam, to take or leave, noting that friends, students and teachers of his disagree with him on several things and that he holds no blind-following mentality.
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Mufti Abu Layth says Sahih al-Bukhari should not be called the most authentic book after the Quran: it is an excellent effort whose reports are still sifted, while fiqh and the madhhabs preserved the Sunnah in living form.
“let's stop saying these things of Buhari is the most sound book after the Quran well lucky I do not like these kind of statements upset me”
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these clashes as they've taught with these principles and in fact it was actually a quote of evening Hanson which is worth reading actually it was interesting that even a hasn't said cool or hadith in rr8 oh you Holly film are cool every hadith you see which goes against reason or in our table a soul or approach the principle of Islam unknown model know that it is fabricated fanatical affair Tamara who well at about Roberta who do not even bother checking about the narrator's he says what out on the feature Haim you don't even need to look at the chains being weak because no it is fabricated this
was and this kind of understanding was taught by many scholars beginning with Abu Hanifa Imam Ali and going right down to people like even has them even though Josie all these principles that we measure the hadith up and then we accept them because otherwise everybody's doing the same anyway but you're just telling people a lie you see when when it comes to the Shia narrations for example she are saying overlooking Buhari you know even if she harbors say there's a hadith going right back with a full chain saying forty man was upset and this and this you say oh yeah but if they should have made this up and then when you say oh but look at that Adi thin body the Prophet you know is trying to commit
suicide say oh but even if you have made that up oh but otherwise no we can't have this so why not just be realistic you know let's stop saying these things of Buhari is the most sound book after the Quran well lucky I do not like these kind of statements upset me yes Buhari is an excellent preservation it's an attempt an excellent effort and you know may Allah reward imam bukhari you did an excellent effort the best he could I am personally I do wonder why on earth he put certain hadith in there just like any other sane Muslim would think why on earth did you do that but fair enough I mean it's his effort you know at the end of the day he's gonna say well look okay I put them in the I don't tell you to
just believe them like a blind you know idiot you know you've got your own uncle you can use your up I'll call you if I made a mistake you can use your raka at the today so imam bukhari did a great job and so al hamdulillah love me a lot you know bless him him in the afterlife now but for us it is not we do not compare it to the Quran and these comparisons are we we've gone wrong now there is nothing about the most authentic book after the Quran whether one two people said it stopped this business people because then you're going to start finding faults in these in these and it's gonna hurt you so just be realistic
look hadith or brilliant they are an attempt to preserve the Sunnah and we sift through them as long as they don't go through against these things Allah Roxy what I'm and this is why it's important to have faith as well because Vic was documented separate to have you and Vic preserve your Islam as a heritage Vic was how you practice Islam how do we worship by cell dab etiquettes this got preserved in the meth-heads so this is why it's important that is like a you will find the Sun man lived throughout these throughout these mother
he may be one method doesn't in tap select everything but through them you will find the Sunnah in living format and in the hadith scattered you will find the Sunnah but you've got to be weary where it contradicts things so that's my inch of law these are people my my kind of thoughts I put them to you as a brother in Islam okay if you dislike them you know these are like you could say in Arabic as its said by someone Bonato of carry you know the like an idiom that the kind of like Bernardo of carries of FUD alaikum for himself come be my roofing of the city
humble you know you can take them either with you know you can keep them or you can let them go I've got no issue I am Allah he there are people my own friends disagree with me on several things my own students my teachers I have no I'm not about that blind following mentality I'm not about that you know these people I've got I don't belong to any group but I've got people I've got students I've got friends who are Sufi are salafi who are these things who do they disagree with me entirely on these things but it doesn't matter no no we're not clones of each other you know we can still talk laugh have a job discuss
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@misc{abulayth-2018-03-13-S39, author = {Mufti Abu Layth}, title = {{Stop calling Bukhari the most authentic book after the Quran; fiqh preserved the living Sunnah}}, year = {2018}, month = {3}, date = {2018-03-13}, howpublished = {\url{https://muftiabulayth.org/r/nhzyu3bkbwe/s/39/}}, url = {https://muftiabulayth.org/r/nhzyu3bkbwe/s/39/}, organization = {Mufti Abu Layth Archive}, urldate = {2026-11-01}, note = {Segment 2018-03-13-S39, auto-transcribed, may contain errors} }
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