Recordings › Holistic Overview: Can Men Wear Earrings? -Mufti Abu Layth · 24 Jul 2019 › Segment 5 of 10
Did early Sunni hadith scholars such as Sufyan ibn Uyayna wear earrings?
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machinesummary, machine-writtenYes: the Musnad of Abu Ya'la records a hadith student wearing two earrings, and al-Dhahabi's Siyar A'lam al-Nubala describes the young Sufyan ibn Uyayna sitting in Amr ibn Dinar's hadith class with an earring in his ear.
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Mufti Abu Layth says Husayn is described in another narration as wearing earrings in both ears, and asks listeners to hold any doubt about that while he turns to Sunni sources. From the Musnad of Abu Ya'la, a Hanbali hadith scholar, he cites a transmitter who recalled visiting a shaykh [?] while still a young man and wearing two earrings at the time he was studying hadith. Anticipating that people will ask who that narrator was, he goes to a greater figure: Sufyan ibn Uyayna, the great hadith master of Makkah from the era of the Salaf, of whom al-Dhahabi in Siyar A'lam al-Nubala, volume eight page 462, transmits an eyewitness description as a young man carrying his writing tablets, wandering the streets with his friends and sitting in the hadith class of Amr ibn Dinar, the greatest hadith master of Makkah at the time, with an earring in his ear. He then asks who could be a greater legend of the Salaf than Sufyan ibn Uyayna, and answers that it is the man Sufyan himself called the greatest scholar in the Hijaz: Imam Malik.
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what kora Tahu Yetta that the ban and his both earrings were shaking and he describes the events of when they he was on I mean he was obviously one of the people that Martin and killed Hussein really long but he describes the events quite vividly and other people do as well that during his final time Imam Hussain really Allah on had two earrings in another narration they say were fiorini he do return in both of his ears he wore earrings now you may think well no that doesn't sound quite right and I'll come back to this point just hold
that thought let me transmit to you from the must net of coming back to Sunni sources the most nada abou yeah Allah the most net of Abu yalla famous humbly son Nima hadith he transmits from a great scholar of hadith uberman Hal who says when he went to visit Abu I went to visit a Boober as well as la me he says and I was still a young man Rafi although knee he says or in Fe o dunya poor attain and used to have two earrings at that time when I used to study hadith that's in the must net of Abu Yahya let's not stop
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