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Recordings › Hadiths on Prophetic Miracles and Responding to Claims of Blasphemy - Mufti Abu Layth al Maliki · 9 Feb 2018 › Segment 1 of 6

Viral claims that Mufti Abu Layth insulted the companions

hadeeth ahadith ahaadeeth hadis hadees ahaadith muftis haraam jahannam jahanam jahannum sahabah sahabi sahabiyyah sahabiyat salam as-salamu alaykum assalamu alaikum assalamualaikum salaams salam alaykum wa alaykum as-salam peace greeting

DiscussionRecorded 9 Feb 2018On the Prophet Muhammad ﷺ Segment 1 of 6 in the recording2018-02-09-S01

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Mufti Abu Layth explains that he called the crying-tree reports unestablished, and only suggested that, if accepted, some companions exaggerated out of love; that is not blasphemy.

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After a stray closing remark that believing in superstition is forbidden because it cripples the mind, Mufti Abu Layth turns to viral videos and comments alleging he was blasphemous towards the companions. Mufti explains that in an earlier session he said the reports of a tree that cried in the Prophet's time are not established and that their chains have problems. He had added that if one did accept them, some companions may have exaggerated the Prophet's virtues out of love, as people today do for their own spiritual guides, while the Prophet, the best of creation, needs no exaggeration. He says critics took this to mean he accused the companions of lying, and tells them to stop talking of blasphemy and heathens as though it were the fifteenth or sixteenth century.

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ah Haram per se but what I'm saying is believing in superstition is forbidden because it cripples the human cognitive faculty okay right i alaikum as-salaam right so people just tuning in click like click share people get this alfie right let's take a look at some discussions with right ok I've been asked some questions I've been asked a question on hadith listen some some interesting serious talk people on

hadith so I I answered a question a few I think was it the week before last on some miracles of the Prophet okay I'd like to touch up on this topic because I've seen it online a few discussions about this I've seen some viral videos I don't know how viral they are but some I mean they were sent to me anyway and I even had somebody approached me at a at a petrol pump so if the brother watches this

he'll probably know who he is right to have a discussion on this because he had seen also these viral videos which I have also seen now so these videos were saying alluding to me being blasphemous okay to the Companions because in a I said in a previous discussion I was asked about the the miracles of the Prophet and this mystery that kind of allegedly cried and would speak this kind of like speaking crying tree in the

time of the Prophet and I said there's no such thing and these hadith are not established okay I said that I said that these things are not established they are a and I and I said that the Dean's have problems and I touched upon them briefly last time but I also then said that look somebody may ask that but why okay if you go with the argument that they are established let's say if you go with the argument that they are established why would sometimes certain companions say things like this and I

said look it's out of their love for the Prophet that over time people when recounting things will naturally it's natural to exaggerate the virtues out of love for somebody and I said look people today even do this for their own beads and shares they claim them to be doing all these miracles and things like this so I said that look in the past naturally for the Prophet some people may have done this but we don't need to kind of exaggerate the virtues because the Prophet for us was already such an

amazing and incredible person and for us was the best of creation so that's what I say on my video so this one person he kind of is making a recording of my video and then there were some comments on different kind of statuses as well saying oh my god the Sahaba exaggerate the virtues of that like the exaggerated and this can mean this can mean not that I'm saying but these people are saying that are you trying to say the Sahaba lie and therefore oh my god blasphemy

blasphemy blasphemy right first of all right we do not live in fifteen sixteenth century people okay you need to chill out with all this kind of like blasphemy and heathens and pagans and all this kind of speech right we we live in the 21st century welcome to 2018 okay just to start off with secondly right I I wanna touch demonstrate going to do two things I'm going to

explain this situation and the greater context but before that I'm going to demonstrate that these hadith are not established okay these I do not believe these incidents to be true and I do believe that these chains are inaccurate right now I'll go through some of these for you right now I know there's a few chains but I'll go through the strongest some of the strongest ones and then you can I mean you can get gained from that an example of other things now I want to highlight that look

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Mufti Abu Layth Archive, segment 2018-02-09-S01, auto-transcribed, may contain errors. https://muftiabulayth.org/r/rm4jhswj_um/s/1/ (accessed 1 November 2026)

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Mufti Abu Layth. (2018, February 9). Viral claims that Mufti Abu Layth insulted the companions [Video, segment 2018-02-09-S01, auto-transcribed, may contain errors]. Mufti Abu Layth Archive. Retrieved November 1, 2026, from https://muftiabulayth.org/r/rm4jhswj_um/s/1/

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Mufti Abu Layth. 2018. "Viral claims that Mufti Abu Layth insulted the companions." Video, segment 2018-02-09-S01, auto-transcribed, may contain errors. Mufti Abu Layth Archive. Recorded February 9, 2018. Accessed November 1, 2026. https://muftiabulayth.org/r/rm4jhswj_um/s/1/

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@misc{abulayth-2018-02-09-S01,
  author = {Mufti Abu Layth},
  title = {{Viral claims that Mufti Abu Layth insulted the companions}},
  year = {2018},
  month = {2},
  date = {2018-02-09},
  howpublished = {\url{https://muftiabulayth.org/r/rm4jhswj_um/s/1/}},
  url = {https://muftiabulayth.org/r/rm4jhswj_um/s/1/},
  organization = {Mufti Abu Layth Archive},
  urldate = {2026-11-01},
  note = {Segment 2018-02-09-S01, auto-transcribed, may contain errors}
}

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