Recordings › Reply to Yasir Qadhi's False Claims on 2nd Coming of Jesus | Mufti Abu Layth · 14 Mar 2021 › Segment 29 of 30
Who was the blind narrator of the return hadith who relied on his slave girl?
hadeeth ahadith ahaadeeth hadis hadees ahaadith muftis muhaddith muhaddithun muhadith muhaddithin muhaddithoon rawi raawi ruwat rijal 'alim aalimThe blind narrator who had his slave girl check his hadith
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machinesummary, machine-writtenOne transmitter of the return reports went blind, lost his memory and relied on his slave girl to check what he doubted; Mufti Abu Layth uses the case, with extended mockery, to argue that these hadith can be questioned.
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Mufti Abu Layth says that in one of the chains before the Ibn Mas'ud report there is a narrator, Yazid [?], who transmits that Jesus will return and who is not only unreliable but is recorded as having gone blind later in life, so that his memory weakened and he would ask his slave girl to check whatever he was doubtful about. He builds an extended comic scene of the slave girl, whose origin nobody knows and who he says was probably a Christian, being sat down as a hadith scholar to do the research and confirming that Jesus is coming, and says this was the state of some of those transmitting these hadith. He asks how, in that case, people can say such material cannot be questioned.
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Mufti Abu Layth says a transmitter of the return reports, Yazid, went blind, lost his memory and relied on his slave girl to check what he doubted, which shows the state of some of those transmitting these hadith and why they can be questioned.
“he became blind later on in life and his memory naturally got weak fakhana yesterday so how would he know what is going on he would get his slave girl to he would ask her whatever he was doubtful about”
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what on earth is going on seriously i mean what on earth is going on here uh this is so preposterous honestly and you know people say that we can't problematize these hadith you know i wanted to highlight to you you know in one of the chains just before the ibnomus odd one uh there was uh there's in one of the chains there's this person yazidi he's in the chain not only now check this out this is a person who's transmitting this that jesus will come back not only is he not reliable and people
have problematized him look what they transmit about him he became blind later on in life and his memory naturally got weak fakhana yesterday so how would he know what is going on he would get his slave girl to he would ask her whatever he was doubtful about he would ask her yet
[Laughter] he would ask her to do the research so basically you've got this slave girl who's god knows where she's from and just put like a a bug on her head and they just sit her down and they go to her that achar he used to say to her can you do the research so this slave girl just goes
yeah i think jesus is coming [Music] [Laughter] this was the situation of these people who were transmitting hadith because the bachara has gone blind he would ask a slave girl god knows she's probably a christian and you know they just sit her down and make her mothers
she's like mahadasha just put a pug on her head they go hella sit down [Laughter] here's the slave girl sitting there she's like ah jesus is coming [Laughter] oh yeah jesus man honestly i don't then they say why can you question this stuff how can we not question it how can we not question it i mean there's plenty sperm blizzards that are happening and we've got to kind of watch out for
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Mufti Abu Layth. (2021, March 14). Who was the blind narrator of the return hadith who relied on his slave girl? [Video, segment 2021-03-14-S29, auto-transcribed, may contain errors]. Mufti Abu Layth Archive. Retrieved November 1, 2026, from https://muftiabulayth.org/r/tr3nsx3ufy8/s/29/
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@misc{abulayth-2021-03-14-S29, author = {Mufti Abu Layth}, title = {{Who was the blind narrator of the return hadith who relied on his slave girl?}}, year = {2021}, month = {3}, date = {2021-03-14}, howpublished = {\url{https://muftiabulayth.org/r/tr3nsx3ufy8/s/29/}}, url = {https://muftiabulayth.org/r/tr3nsx3ufy8/s/29/}, organization = {Mufti Abu Layth Archive}, urldate = {2026-11-01}, note = {Segment 2021-03-14-S29, auto-transcribed, may contain errors} }
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