# Should loyalty to Sahih al-Bukhari outweigh how a report presents the Prophet? *Closing: have the courage to re-examine; the age of Aisha and loyalty to the Prophet over Bukhari* - URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/uuldzklvxvo/s/19/ - Date: 2018-04-09 · Kind: lesson · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: The Role Of Reason In Religion - Mufti Abu Layth (1:23:36–1:26:07) - Status: general teaching - Watch from the start of the segment: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UuLDZkLvxvo&t=5016s - Recording page: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/uuldzklvxvo/ **Topics:** The age of Aisha; Reason and revelation; Sahih al-Bukhari (BukhariGate) **Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked):** No: Mufti Abu Layth says loyalty belongs to the Prophet, not to al-Bukhari, and cites the age-of-Aisha report, which he holds untrue and disrespectful since Arabs of the time did not marry girls that young, as an example of what must be re-examined. **Checked position (checked by two independent reviews, not by the channel):** Mufti Abu Layth holds that the report of Aisha's age at marriage is untrue and presents the Prophet disrespectfully, since Arab culture of the time did not marry girls as young as six or seven, and that loyalty to the Prophet should outrank loyalty to al-Bukhari. **Evidence, his words at 1:24:32:** “you putting present in the Prophet sallallaahu I leave salam in such a disrespectful light and it is not true that people generally didn't in in the arab culture married girls that young they didn't” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UuLDZkLvxvo&t=5072s) ## Longer summary Mufti Abu Layth says that whether Muslims like it or not, Islam and its beliefs are being and will be put to the test, ridiculed and evaluated by non-Muslims, so Muslims should rise to the challenge with courage, filter through the material and re-examine what rests on interpretations rather than embracing it all as 'my aqidah'. As an example he cites the report on the age of Aisha he had discussed a few days earlier: people cling to it, he says, yet it presents the Prophet in a disrespectful light and is untrue, since Arab culture of the time did not marry girls as young as six or seven, even if historically girls of twelve to fourteen were married in parts of the world. He says those who refuse to compromise a hadith in Bukhari should remember that their loyalty should be to the Prophet rather than to al-Bukhari. He closes the talk and opens the floor for questions. ## Sources and names cited - Aisha - al-Bukhari - Sahih al-Bukhari - aqidah ## Transcript (machine tier, 1:23:36–1:26:07) [1:23:15] amongst a big book which was essentially in two whole volumes and now it's kind of obviously modern-day printing yes he will mention certain things amongst there which are just narratives just to kind of add that love oh do you know this and do you know this happen and do you know this happened so people are now using that as the yardstick to say well call the yard said these well okay fine he said in this time but we have to be people of reason we can't be swayed with emotions so I hope these words kind of make sense I could see some people thinking well what on earth is he is he on about well so I hope these words kind [1:23:54] of make sense you see the main thing comes back to pull all of this aside whether you like it or not whether I do this or not Islam and all these beliefs that you're talking about are being put to the test and will be put to the test by non-muslims this is happening they will be ridiculed they will be examined they will be evaluated so have some courage rise up to the original challenge take a look [1:24:32] filter through stuff if stuff isn't if it's come through or based on interpretations then you need to re-examine some things rather than just wholeheartedly embrace them and all you oh I'm gonna embrace it this is my love what do you mean this is your look it's not even it's like this ha d you know I mentioned the other day this hadith about age of Aisha thing going on people still hold heartedly oh no longer this this is my what do you even do why are you saying these things to people you putting present in the Prophet sallallaahu I leave salam in such a disrespectful light and it is not true that people generally didn't in in [1:25:11] the arab culture married girls that young they didn't yes historically you can find in different parts of the world people did marry girls maybe younger than they do today maybe 12 13 14 historically in the medieval times even in the time of the Prophet but they didn't marry killed that young like six seven and then forget people you're putting the Prophet day just because you're saying I can't compromise a hadith in Bukhari your loyalty to Bihari is not that high so it should be to the Prophet so this is the this is a message that our one a kind of emphasize okay so [1:25:49] I hope in Charlotte these words can make some sense be a let's take some questions I take a Q&A and and we'll open it up we've got some we've got some time for questions okay cool let's go for some ## Cite Mufti Abu Layth Archive, segment UuLDZkLvxvo/s/19. https://muftiabulayth.org/r/uuldzklvxvo/s/19/ Not a fatwa: these answers were given to specific people at specific times. 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