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Did Yasir Qadhi himself say a hadith came into Islam from Jewish sources through Abu Hurayra?

hadeeth ahadith ahaadeeth hadis hadees ahaadith muftis ahl al-sunnah ahl as-sunnah ahlus sunnah ahl al-sunna sunnis 'alim aalim ulama ulema ulamaa as-salamu alaykum assalamu alaikum assalamualaikum salaam salaams salam alaykum wa alaykum as-salam peace greeting

Ibn Kathir on Gog and Magog as Israiliyyat through Abu Hurayra: Mufti Abu Layth charges hypocrisy

LessonRecorded 14 Mar 2021Segment 12 of 30 in the recording2021-03-14-S12

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Qadhi's clip endorses Ibn Kathir's view that the Gog and Magog report is defective and came from Israelite material through Abu Hurayra and Ka'b al-Ahbar. Mufti Abu Layth calls this hypocrisy, since Qadhi called the same claim about the Jesus reports preposterous.

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The clip continues with Qadhi citing a classical scholar, Ibn Kathir, who said the Gog and Magog tradition has a hidden defect and is not from the Prophet, and might come from the Israelites because Abu Hurayra studied with Ka'b al-Ahbar, the son of a rabbi, who narrated Israelite material, so that a student of Abu Hurayra assumed it to be from the Prophet. Mufti Abu Layth stops the clip to ask whether he imagined hearing Qadhi say a moment ago that it is preposterous to assume Abu Hurayra or others introduced Jewish beliefs into Islam, and says he did not expect this hypocrisy. The clip resumes with Qadhi saying this is what he firmly believes and that the tradition is highly problematic. Mufti observes that Qadhi is about to problematise the whole thing on the basis of reason, logic, geography and science, and how the human body is understood to work.

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47:02

i have to say i was relieved to find classical scholars some of them did problematize this hadith so the fact that he found one or two scholars disagreeing gave him great relief amongst them who said that this tradition this tradition seems to be uh it's an illa or a hidden defect that it is not from the prophet salam now pay attention here here is a tradition in islam with a hadith to the prophet sallallahu alaihi

47:40

the hadith is in in our sources sunni sources it is there it is established according to them but what are they about to say about that very hadith what are they about to say it might be coming from the israelites because abu hurairah also stood studied with kabal akhbar kabbalah was the son of a rabbi and he would narrate israelite and would listen to him and narrate and would listen to him and narrate

48:17

his sweet sides you know what this one a moment ago didn't well is this am i imagining things or did i just a moment ago hear ya saying it is preposterous to assume that abu hurairah or other people introduce jewish beliefs into islam

48:46

here i don't expect this hypocrisy you know this hypocrisy let's go back people and one of the students of abu huraira assumed it to be from the prophet saws this is ibn kathir saying this not me so he said perhaps this is from the israelite and this is what i firmly believe simply see so not only does he say he himself believes that these beliefs came in

49:25

through jewish beliefs about gog and magog and people accepted them fully because it is highly problematic to pause now note that here he's going to problematize this whole thing based on what based on reason reason and based logic based on geography and science that how we understand the human body to work

49:53

was it that there are billions of people somewhere in today's world clawing away so honestly tell you this is something that i am involved in many discussions of this nature with many people and what not and one of my scholarly so he says that this to posit this is as far as he's concerned it's just kind of ludicrous to assume that a bunch of people are under the earth somewhere millions or a billion of them just living there this is ridiculous why because we can see the world we can see the earth this is just crazy he then goes on to

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Mufti Abu Layth Archive, segment 2021-03-14-S12, auto-transcribed, may contain errors. https://muftiabulayth.org/r/tr3nsx3ufy8/s/12/ (accessed 1 November 2026)

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Mufti Abu Layth. (2021, March 14). Did Yasir Qadhi himself say a hadith came into Islam from Jewish sources through Abu Hurayra? [Video, segment 2021-03-14-S12, auto-transcribed, may contain errors]. Mufti Abu Layth Archive. Retrieved November 1, 2026, from https://muftiabulayth.org/r/tr3nsx3ufy8/s/12/
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Mufti Abu Layth. 2021. "Did Yasir Qadhi himself say a hadith came into Islam from Jewish sources through Abu Hurayra?" Video, segment 2021-03-14-S12, auto-transcribed, may contain errors. Mufti Abu Layth Archive. Recorded March 14, 2021. Accessed November 1, 2026. https://muftiabulayth.org/r/tr3nsx3ufy8/s/12/
BibTeX 
@misc{abulayth-2021-03-14-S12,
  author = {Mufti Abu Layth},
  title = {{Did Yasir Qadhi himself say a hadith came into Islam from Jewish sources through Abu Hurayra?}},
  year = {2021},
  month = {3},
  date = {2021-03-14},
  howpublished = {\url{https://muftiabulayth.org/r/tr3nsx3ufy8/s/12/}},
  url = {https://muftiabulayth.org/r/tr3nsx3ufy8/s/12/},
  organization = {Mufti Abu Layth Archive},
  urldate = {2026-11-01},
  note = {Segment 2021-03-14-S12, auto-transcribed, may contain errors}
}
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