# What does the Mufti think of Shaykh Ramadan al-Buti?

*Thoughts on Shaykh Sa'id Ramadan al-Buti*

- URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/tzngkxyiaxu/s/1/
- Date: 2020-03-03 · Kind: question · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Thoughts on Shaykh Ramadan Al-Bouti | Mufti Abu Layth (0:00–1:24)
- Status: general teaching
- Watch from the start of the segment: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tZNGKXyIaxU&t=0s
- Recording page: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/tzngkxyiaxu/

**Topics:** Views on contemporary scholars; Middle East and the wider world

**Question as asked:** Mufti Saab, what is your view on Shaykh Ramadan al-Buti?

**Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked):** Mufti Abu Layth regards al-Buti as a great scholar of his time whose books, especially Ma'a al-Nas, he benefited from. He says it is a shame al-Buti got caught up in Syrian politics.

## Longer summary

Mufti Abu Layth is asked for his view on Shaykh Ramadan al-Buti. He says al-Buti was a great scholar, definitely a scholar of his time, and that he benefited from some of his books, especially his question-and-answer volumes Ma'a al-Nas, of which he owns two. He says it is a shame that al-Buti got caught up in the politics in Damascus and Syria. He recalls meeting him and attending a few of his packed live lessons at a masjid. He prays that Allah grant him an elevated station in Jannah, remarks that such matters always become political, and mentions a dispute between al-Buti and, he thinks, Shaykh al-Yaqoubi and their followers.

## Sources and names cited

- Sa'id Ramadan al-Buti
- Ma'a al-Nas (al-Buti's question-and-answer books) [?]
- Shaykh Muhammad al-Yaqoubi
- jannah (Paradise)

## Transcript (machine tier, 0:00–1:24)

[0:01] Uh, Mufti Saab, what is your view on Sheikh Ramadan al-Bouti? I think Sheikh Ramadan al-Bouti, you know, was a great scholar. He was definitely a scholar of his time. Um, I've benefited a lot from some of his books. I love his Q&A books, Ma'a al-Nas. I've got at least two two of them. I don't know if he's got more of them. But, um, Uh, and I think it's a shame that he got caught up in this whole political thing in Damascus in Syria and But, I mean, khair, I did meet him in my lifetime and uh and in his lifetime, sorry, in my

[0:39] lifetime. I suppose in my lifetime, too, but in his lifetime. I did meet him and I attended only a few of his durus, not many. He used to hold uh live durus at a masjid and the and it would be rampacked, seriously. But, yeah, it's a shame the whole politics and everything.

[1:03] Right, may Allah grant him an elevated maqam in Jannah. I mean, it's a shame. You know, this whole thing it got it See, it gets what it's always political. Rajniti people, Rajniti. You know, there was this thing between him and I think Sheikh Yaqoubi and the whole um and their followers and things like that.

## Cite

Mufti Abu Layth Archive, segment tZNGKXyIaxU/s/1. https://muftiabulayth.org/r/tzngkxyiaxu/s/1/

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