# What did the classical Maliki scholars say about the satanic verses story? *The Maliki rejection: Abu Bakr ibn al-Arabi, al-Tabari's verdict and Qadi Iyad's al-Shifa* - URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/t0phqrnjjby/s/15/ - Date: 2022-08-19 · Kind: lesson · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Salman Rushdie & The Satanic Verses | Mufti Abu Layth (1:14:40–1:18:40) - Status: latest answer on its topic; general teaching - Watch from the start of the segment: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T0pHQRNJjBY&t=4480s - Recording page: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/t0phqrnjjby/ **Topics:** Reports that disrespect the Prophet; Text criticism, reason and the Quran; The Maliki school **Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked):** Mufti Abu Layth says the Maliki scholars, Abu Bakr ibn al-Arabi and Qadi Iyad among them, rejected the story as fabricated, and that al-Tabari records the narrations but concludes they are false. **Checked position (checked by two independent reviews, not by the channel):** Mufti Abu Layth says the Maliki scholars rightly rejected the satanic verses narrations as fabricated, and that even a sahih report contradicting the Quran would be rejected, let alone weak ones. **Evidence, his words at 1:14:40:** “this is why many of the ulama of islam oh sorry especially the malikiah very clearly made it very clear that look all of these things are utterly absurd they have no standing” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T0pHQRNJjBY&t=4480s) ## Longer summary Mufti Abu Layth says many ulama, especially the Malikis, made clear that these narrations are absurd and their chains worthless, citing Qadi Abu Bakr ibn al-Arabi of Muslim Spain, who says people hostile to Islam crept them in and others transmitted them. To those who point out that al-Tabari mentions them in his tafsir under 22:52, he replies that al-Tabari brings them all but concludes that they are utterly false, so recording them is not affirming them. He praises Qadi Iyad's discussion in al-Shifa, a book on the Prophet, as one of the best: the Malikis were clear about the honour of the Prophet, and Qadi Iyad answers later people so committed to the hadith project that they suggested the story might be true with Satan saying the words. He reports Qadi Iyad's reasoning that even a sahih report that went against the Quran would be rejected, so reports that are weak and fabricated have even less standing. ## Sources and names cited - Qadi Abu Bakr ibn al-Arabi - al-Tabari - Tafsir al-Tabari - Qadi Iyad - al-Shifa (Qadi Iyad) - Quran 22:52 (Satan cast into the prophet's wish, then God annulled it): https://quran.com/22/52 - The Quran takes precedence over an isolated hadith ## Transcript (machine tier, 1:14:40–1:18:40) [1:14:29] lofty beings that they that these that these stone carvings are such lofty beings that on the day of judgment wow we can't wait for these to help you out ridiculously absurd this is why many of the ulama of islam oh sorry especially the malikiah very clearly made it very clear that look all of these things are utterly absurd they have no standing the is nerds are utterly let me just bring this [1:15:09] so you could see there a wakarib the maliki legend from muslim spain very clearly says people who had issues with islam he says that they just crept them in and people transmitted them now somebody could say look why did they transmit them then and this is something that uh mentions of what could been audibly mentioned later on people say tabari mentions them in his tafsir he does double he mentions them with this verse that we surah hajj [1:15:49] but read on tabari mentions them brings all of them and says at the end these are utterly battle utterly battle he says that these ribayats are utterly partial and they're false so by saying that loktabri brought them he didn't bring them and affirm them or say that they have validity he brought them if you read through the pages at the end in his conclusion of this verse he says that they are bartilla and [1:16:28] this is what called the yad side same awakening besides him and what's really fascinating and uh sorry what's what's what's also very useful to see as well is called the yard's discussion on it is amazing in the shifter see the malikia were very clear about something about the honor of the prophet salallahu because some people started to say and this is later on see some people were so committed to the hadith project that they started to say well what if it was true but it's just not that the prophet said it but that [1:17:08] maybe it was the shaitaan said it what if it was true now this is where cathy yad has an incredible discussion in the shift which is a uh a seerah book about the prophet saws this so one of the best discussions you see on it [1:17:39] and i'll bring this up they say imagine you found something a rewire that sahih but it goes against the quran that rewire would clearly be battled because the prophet could not be preaching on one hand the quran his whole life whilst teaching simultaneously that is coming through just one person saying he said this that's not he said if it was sahih it would be rejected if it contradicted the quran he says what do you and what's [1:18:14] what about these that are utterly weak and unacceptable and fabricated so that's something this is why i want to bring these i'll show you some of these discussions we you can see here now one of the problems was some people like was a problem here you see ibn hajj for no reason hundreds of years later 700 years we're talking after the prophet salallahu and after we're talking you ## Cite Mufti Abu Layth Archive, segment T0pHQRNJjBY/s/15. https://muftiabulayth.org/r/t0phqrnjjby/s/15/ Not a fatwa: these answers were given to specific people at specific times. 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