# Is the hadith of Aisha about Jesus and the Dajjal reliable?

*The hadith of Aisha: a lone transmitter who dictated 41,000 reports in Isbahan*

- URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/tr3nsx3ufy8/s/27/
- Date: 2021-03-14 · Kind: lesson · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Reply to Yasir Qadhi's False Claims on 2nd Coming of Jesus | Mufti Abu Layth (2:02:15–2:07:24)
- Status: general teaching
- Watch from the start of the segment: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TR3NSX3UFy8&t=7335s
- Recording page: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/tr3nsx3ufy8/

**Topics:** Narrator criticism; Dajjal, Mahdi and the signs; The second coming of Jesus

**Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked):** The hadith of Aisha on Jesus's return rests on a lone transmitter, an undervalued narrator who dictated 41,000 reports from memory in Isbahan with a thousand errors, and whose version alone has the Dajjal emerging from the Jews of Isbahan, which Mufti Abu Layth finds suspicious.

**Checked position (checked by two independent reviews, not by the channel):** Mufti Abu Layth says the hadith of Aisha on Jesus's return rests on a lone transmitter, an undervalued narrator who dictated some forty-one thousand reports from memory in Isbahan with at least a thousand errors and whose version alone has the Dajjal emerging from the Jews of Isbahan, which he finds suspicious.

**Evidence, his words at 2:07:05:** “he's the only person to have ever said that and that's where he was massively undervalued now you tell me is that not suspicious” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TR3NSX3UFy8&t=7625s)

## Longer summary

Mufti Abu Layth mentions a Bukhari report through a narrator described as not reliable, naive and weak, then takes up Qadhi's appeal to well-known companions with the hadith of Aisha. He says its narrators are problematised, among them a Yahya about whom al-Duri relates that they would tell him a hadith in the afternoon and by evening he would teach it as if from elsewhere, and whom al-Fallas said they did not transmit from. The most important point, he says, is the first narrator, not the famous Abu Dawud but another author of a hadith collection whose name is unclear in the recording [?], the only person to transmit this report from Aisha: whereas the others transmit the Prophet saying that if the Dajjal comes while he is among them he will deal with him, this narrator's version has Jesus coming. Mufti relates that this man knew many hadith but felt undervalued in Basra, moved to Isbahan where nobody wanted to learn from him, and, as Ibn Adi and others relate, began transmitting some forty-one thousand hadith without being asked and without a book, making mistakes in at least a thousand; in his version alone the Dajjal emerges from among the Jews of Isbahan, the very place where he felt undervalued, which Mufti finds suspicious.

## Sources and names cited

- Aisha
- report: the dajjal emerges from the jews of isbahan (aisha)
- report: if the dajjal comes while i am among you i will contend with him on your behalf
- Ibn Adi
- Dajjal
- Yasir Qadhi

## Transcript (machine tier, 2:02:15–2:07:24)

[2:01:53] that there's no doubt in these hadith no doubt i've shown doubt upon doubt you know there was a hadith in bukhari um that was transmitted by uh with yaki abdullah who says we do not consider him to be rel an evidence reliable and says he's naive he's weak unacceptable

[2:02:24] then he goes on to say okay these companions are not that well known what about major well-known companions let me tell you something people let me show you something this is quite interesting right so this is the hadith of aisha that he brings up now apart from all these people being problematized here so i want to highlight something apart from

[2:02:53] even they're not this confusion who he was some people say abu hatim says even mine says no he was somebody else okay he says he you know used to blag with atleast says uh you know he would send hadees mursal which wouldn't reach the prophet now check this out dori transmit something interesting about yahyana because he says

[2:03:22] he says we used to tell him a hadith in the afternoon and by evening he used to come and teach it to us as though he knows this hadith from somewhere else [Laughter] right so then he's not he's not strong you know quite weak in hadith uh al-falaa says he transmits we don't transmit from him he's in this chain but you know the most important thing about this chain i want to show this hadith i want to show you guys is not that it's that check this out the first person

[2:04:01] this guy is he's not the famous you know you've got the famous there's another famous slightly older than him called abu dhabi he also has a book on hadith about the muslim he transmits this hadith of jesus he's the only one to transmit it from aisha check this out people i want you to grasp this he claims not only in the beginning of the other hadith so the one he doesn't transmit these other weak people transmitted but they transmit not jesus in it they transmit the prophet saying if the jail comes i'm here for you

[2:04:40] i can handle him in his version jesus will come okay and what else will happen check this out he says uh [Laughter] this guy he was a major he he knew loads of hadith he was a great like invested his life in hadith but he was undervalued yeah in his lifetime so people never

[2:05:18] took hadith from him much and they kind of undervalued him so he felt very undervalued in basra so he moves he goes to asbahan right in modern day iran he goes there and nobody wants to learn hadith from him like he's they just didn't have an interest like they you know he just didn't have that pull so the scholars mentioned now check this out um mentions this for last mentions

[2:05:48] that he went there he transmits hadith ibn adi transmits this story as well he started just transmitting hadith on mass without even being asked they say he transmitted 41 000 hadith without being asked [Laughter] and they say he didn't even have a book so he's just doing this and what is it johari mentions that he's made mistakes in at least one thousand hadith so he is this person who's undervalued he's in a place he's trying to transmit hadith nobody wants to take it from him he's transmitting without a book he

[2:06:27] starts just transmitting 41 000 hadith yeah he transmits a hadith about the dajjal and jesus he says in his hadith check this out guess not only is that the jail coming guess where he's gonna come from he says he's gonna come from [Laughter] you jews here in usmahan [Laughter] so he's undervalued and all of a sudden in azbahan in his narration the jal is going to come out from us behind amongst the jewish people

[2:07:05] there he's the only person to have ever said that and that's where he was massively undervalued now you tell me is that not suspicious right then i wanted to highlight and then wrap up as well all of this there's a hadith of ibn masarud he mentioned abnormal now this there's no idea who he is some people say his name is rafara afaza rafawa uh there's no idea hashem is problematized uh right but this is the hadith i wanted to

## Cite

Mufti Abu Layth Archive, segment TR3NSX3UFy8/s/27. https://muftiabulayth.org/r/tr3nsx3ufy8/s/27/

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