# Is al-Yaqoubi's edition of Sahih al-Bukhari really the most authentic copy on earth? *The 'most authentic copy on earth': al-Yaqoubi's Bukhari edition, the Sultaniyya and business* - URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/otqqc3k4hwa/s/7/ - Date: 2019-08-21 · Kind: lesson · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: A Reply to Shaykh Muhammad Al-Yaqoubi on Sahih Al-Bukhari| Mufti Abu layth (20:54–24:49) - Status: general teaching - Watch from the start of the segment: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OtQqc3K4HWA&t=1254s - Recording page: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/otqqc3k4hwa/ **Topics:** Sahih al-Bukhari (BukhariGate); Views on contemporary scholars; Cults, clergy and religious abuse **Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked):** No special claim can rest on being based on the Sultaniyya, Mufti Abu Layth says, since every copy of Bukhari is. He sees the advertising as business, which he does not mind in itself, but calls the tactics problematic. ## Longer summary Mufti Abu Layth says al-Yaqoubi has released an edition of Sahih al-Bukhari advertised as the most authentic copy on earth, which he picked up on because he and Bukhari 'have a thing'. He says al-Yaqoubi's claim that his copy is based on the Sultaniyya is empty, since every copy of Bukhari is based on the Sultaniyya, and that al-Yaqoubi has since backtracked to say that his copy is based on the Sultaniyya which is the most authentic copy, meaning the overwhelming majority of copies on earth are the most authentic. He compares this to calling an athlete the best and, when others are shown to outperform him, answering that the athlete is human and humans are the best, and jokes about it in broken English. He says such things go on because this is really just business, which he says he loves and has nothing against, quoting the pirate in Captain Phillips who says he is a businessman; al-Yaqoubi's journey, like many before him, has gone from the word to the corpus of followers, from which it is a tiny step to corporation, and he wishes him more money. He adds, however, that using such tactics is problematic. ## Sources and names cited - Shaykh Muhammad al-Yaqoubi - Sahih al-Bukhari - the Sultaniyya edition of Sahih al-Bukhari ## Transcript (machine tier, 20:54–24:49) [20:19] thing it's like he could have just said this Saudi maja B could have just quite easily said I'm not gay you could have said I'm not gay it's just that this it's just that there's so many sexy boys around that's the equivalent of what's going on here right so so my and the other thing with His Eminence his eminence is his eminence because his his eminence chef yaku be sorry I just find that [20:58] hilarious his eminence he has released a new Buhari sorry a copy of Buhari and i and because he made an advertising claim that is the most authentic copy on earth so I picked up on that because I have a thing me and Behati have a thing we so he chef here who be said my copies based on the salt on here but then every copy of ahadees is based on the salt on here so I don't know I think this has got back to him so now he's apparently backtracked and now apparently chef yaku [21:37] be saying no what I meant was that my copy is based on the salt or Nia which is the most authentic copy so basically every copy of bihari oneth is the most oh sorry most the majority the overwhelming majority copies I don't mean some exceptional ones the overwhelming majority copies of hary on earth or the most authentic copies that's the equivalent of me saying this athlete is the best and then when you say but really that guy outperformed him in this and this guy [22:15] outperformed him in this and this guy I performed him in this I say no no my friend right number wrong door number next door what I mean this athlete is the best this athlete is human and humans are best so this one best price I give you you know this one best price ha ha so the response was that this athlete he human being human being best best best so so because this is Sultan eeeh all [22:53] copy Sultana Sultana copy best guru love you yeah I love you my myself so this this is but obviously these kind of things go on why but this look this is really just business I've got nothing against business I'm I love business business I love this in in saving was it not Private Ryan the other one with where is that see where the Smalley pirate he says I am NOT I'm know some of [23:32] in Latin I am businessman so this this captain Phillips ROTC so I love business I've got nothing against business and I think look this is a business thing and that's fine and I feel that what Sharia Kobe's journey like many others and before him it's gone from the word which is the the kind of message to adding the flesh which is the corpus people [24:08] you see now once you add the copis it is from there only a tiny step to cooperation won't occur as Anil Kapoor subset I want to get for this is so it doesn't take long and I'm not against that and that's all fine may may Allah give him more money more money and more money sub kodi neeya may Allah give everybody why not chef yaku be so that I've got nothing against but I just feel that [24:46] using you know like these kind of tactics is problematic yes big problem you know no way no he is not nice you know this one and I would love to have a discussion with chef yaku beyond Sahil Bihari if he claims I watched a clip of chef yaku be saying it's impossible impossible to doubt side body I thought confidence to monopoly what is ## Cite Mufti Abu Layth Archive, segment OtQqc3K4HWA/s/7. https://muftiabulayth.org/r/otqqc3k4hwa/s/7/ Not a fatwa: these answers were given to specific people at specific times. 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