Recordings › Br Muhammad MFG | Quranist Only Belief - A Dialogue | MindTrap #82 - Mufti Abu Layth · 18 Oct 2025 › Segment 4 of 32
Why does Mufti Abu Layth see the Quran-only movement as a reaction of anger?
hadeeth ahadith ahaadeeth hadis hadees ahaadith al-bukhari imam bukhari sahih al-bukhari sahih bukhari saheeh al-bukhari saheeh bukhari imam al-bukhari muftis mawdu' mawdoo maudu mawdhu iman imaan eemaan eeman koran quraan al-quranMufti Abu Layth's view: the Quranist movement as a reaction of anger to misused hadith
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machinesummary, machine-writtenMufti Abu Layth sees the Quran-only movement as a reaction of anger, sometimes justified, to hadith that are misused, such as the Bukhari report on Aisha's age, the report on killing apostates and reports used to justify abuse; the question is what Quranists actually mean by rejecting hadith.
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Mufti Abu Layth says he feels the Quranist movement is a reaction carrying a lot of rage, anger and negativity, stressing that he is describing how it is perceived in his eyes rather than villainising anyone. He says the anger is sometimes justified, because people take hadith and misuse them, and certain hadith that are clearly incorrect are pushed by hadith dogmatists and exploited by Islamophobes. As examples he gives the age of Aisha, whom he says was in her late teens, between seventeen and twenty, when she married the Prophet, with the Bukhari report on it being inaccurate as he has explained at length; the hadith on killing the apostate, which he believes is fabricated and whose application he says was a political decision about treason common to all religions of the time, noting that some Hanafis hold there is no capital punishment for a female apostate because she poses no threat; and hadith used to justify marital rape, abuse and misogyny. He says the Quranist movement reacts by cancelling all hadith, but asks what they mean by that, since the guest told him last week that he was strawmanning their argument.
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Mufti Abu Layth says he perceives the Quranist movement as a reaction of anger to hadith that are misused, an anger sometimes justified, and he holds that Aisha married in her late teens, that the hadith on killing the apostate is fabricated and its application was political, and that hadith are wrongly used to justify abuse and misogyny.
“I feel that the Quranist movement is really it's you know it's a kind of reaction with a lot of rage a lot of anger almost and negativity”
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So that caught my attention. So I I I piqu my curiosity that followers okay um you know what is this about? So he highlighted that look he's from he's a member of the Quranist movement and so with that in mind you see here's where I'm at with with this discussion with this dialogue and this is what I would like today to you know to to to examine a case if that is to be made for
the Quranist movement by a Quranist. So I did my thoughts on this and I highlighted this last week is I feel that the Quranist movement is really it's you know it's a kind of reaction with a lot of rage a lot of anger almost and negativity and and and I'm not trying to villainize them by saying that I'm just explaining how it's
perceived in the eyes of the other. So in my eyes, this is how it's perceived. I'm not saying this to, you know, I don't want them to feel in any way, you know, take a negative interpretation from that. I'm expressing how I see it as this kind of rageful anger. And sometimes the anger is justified because people they take hadith and they misuse them.
And there's certain hadith which clearly are not correct and they are misused and they're used by Islamophobes and they used by people who hate on Islam and they love the fact that certain um hadith dogmatists really push these like the age of Aisha Aisha our mother in Islam was in her late teens anything between 17 to 20 when she married the prophet.
sallallahu alaihi wasallam. Now this hadith in Bkari I have lengthy discussions on explaining how that is inaccurate and wrong. Now things like this there are discussions on things like killing the apostate which I believe is a fabricated hadith and this decision of killing an apostate in Islam was really a political one because Muslims weren't the only people doing this.
All religions at that time in the world were doing this. They saw this as amounting to treason against the state and it was not something necessarily about the faith although some may have tried to argue that and you see this as some of the hanafia for example highlight that you don't there's no capital punishment for the female apostate because she's not a threat.
So things like this they show where hadith are being wrongly projected and people use all sorts you know they'll use hadith to justify marital rape they'll use hadith to justify uh abuse or misogyny or other things or sometimes just just other ideas and there is a and then in reaction to that see what I see is the Quranist movement It then cancels all hadith.
It says no hadith is acceptable. But then what do they mean by that? Sometimes when I've said that like brother Muhammad said and rightly so from his perspective he said you know Mui you are that's strawmaning our argument. So I said I would like to give you the opportunity to steal man your argument.
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Mufti Abu Layth. (2025, October 18). Why does Mufti Abu Layth see the Quran-only movement as a reaction of anger? [Video, segment 2025-10-18-S04, auto-transcribed, may contain errors]. Mufti Abu Layth Archive. Retrieved November 1, 2026, from https://muftiabulayth.org/r/onzjd7xmdhe/s/4/
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