Recordings › Hadiths on Prophetic Miracles and Responding to Claims of Blasphemy - Mufti Abu Layth al Maliki · 9 Feb 2018 › Segment 4 of 6
Is it blasphemy to say some companions exaggerated out of love for the Prophet?
hadeeth ahadith ahaadeeth hadis hadees ahaadith sahih saheeh sahih hadith saheeh hadith sound hadith muftis sahabah sahaba sahabi sahabiyyah sahabiyat ahl al-sunnah ahl as-sunnah ahlus sunnah ahl al-sunna sunnis ummah umma ummatExaggeration out of love is not blasphemy; defending Mu'awiya
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machinesummary, machine-writtenNo: Mufti Abu Layth says suggesting that companions may have exaggerated out of love is not blasphemy, noting he alone defended Mu'awiya when he was abused online.
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Mufti Abu Layth repeats that he does not believe the crying-tree reports are authentic, but says that if someone did accept them, his answer would be that some companions may have used hyperbole out of excessive love. Mufti asks those calling this blasphemous to pay attention, warning that trolls in the comments will be blocked. He recalls an online campaign some months earlier that insulted and swore at the companion Mu'awiya, and says he was the only person in the online Sunni scholarly community who clearly condemned it.
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Mufti Abu Layth says that if the reports were authentic, his answer would be that maybe some companions exaggerated out of excessive love.
“but the question is if you did believe them what would you respond by and I would respond by saying well fine that's you know maybe out of the excessive love that they exaggerated”
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excellent job Bernal a smiley like either only the Book of Allah is entirely in its entirety we believe as Muslims to be preserved a hadith they've had an excellent job but they are not infallible okay now so that's the other thing is I want to touch upon here is look these people insinuating that I may have been blasphemous to the Companions right so guys pay attention to this I
want you to focus on these focus focus focus right so some people saying that look you right don't ya don't kind of just troll the thing anybody troll in the comment section is gonna get blocked do do I use Brylcreem no I don't right so now people saying to me that look owed you maybe by saying some of the Companions you know first of all I don't believe these narrations to be authentic .
but the question is if you did believe them what would you respond by and I would respond by saying well fine that's you know maybe out of the excessive love that they exaggerated hyperbolic speech like used hyperbole now some people saying oh by saying that you're being blasphemous let me ask you
right guys any of you any of you kind of trolling are gonna get blocked so focus focus people unlike you to share this get this out there this is something very important I'm going to say now right first of all I want to mention one thing is that several months back online there was this huge kind of I don't know where it came out of but there was this kind of spontaneous effort online to kind of malign one of the Companions of the Prophet that was my area rhodium or one and people were insulting him swearing at him outright using swear
words and things like this I found nobody at the time on the online kind of scholarly Islamic Sunni community defending mahalia of the Aloha I was the only person that spoke out very clearly condemning those people for attacking maha of the alarm but put that aside more important even more important things and I'd like you to click like click share people get this out there
right let's go greater than the companions let's go to the prophet of God the Prophet Muhammad sallallaahu our lives in them and prophets I'm gonna ask you a question I'm gonna ask these sunni so-called are shipped lovers of the prophet a question tell me how would you feel if you came across since you seem to be so sensitive to these things and
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Mufti Abu Layth. (2018, February 9). Is it blasphemy to say some companions exaggerated out of love for the Prophet? [Video, segment 2018-02-09-S04, auto-transcribed, may contain errors]. Mufti Abu Layth Archive. Retrieved November 1, 2026, from https://muftiabulayth.org/r/rm4jhswj_um/s/4/
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Mufti Abu Layth. 2018. "Is it blasphemy to say some companions exaggerated out of love for the Prophet?" Video, segment 2018-02-09-S04, auto-transcribed, may contain errors. Mufti Abu Layth Archive. Recorded February 9, 2018. Accessed November 1, 2026. https://muftiabulayth.org/r/rm4jhswj_um/s/4/
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@misc{abulayth-2018-02-09-S04, author = {Mufti Abu Layth}, title = {{Is it blasphemy to say some companions exaggerated out of love for the Prophet?}}, year = {2018}, month = {2}, date = {2018-02-09}, howpublished = {\url{https://muftiabulayth.org/r/rm4jhswj_um/s/4/}}, url = {https://muftiabulayth.org/r/rm4jhswj_um/s/4/}, organization = {Mufti Abu Layth Archive}, urldate = {2026-11-01}, note = {Segment 2018-02-09-S04, auto-transcribed, may contain errors} }
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