Recordings › Why people run from the Bukhari debate? | Mufti Abu Layth · 20 Oct 2020 › Segment 2 of 4
Who vouched for al-Farabri, the transmitter of Sahih al-Bukhari?
saheeh sahih hadith saheeh hadith sound hadith imam bukhari sahih bukhari saheeh al-bukhari saheeh bukhari imam al-bukhari muftis koran quraan al-quran shiah shiite shi'i twelver ithna ashari umma ummat communityDebaters of the Shia, not of Bukhari: the book rests on one unvouched man, al-Farabri
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machinesummary, machine-writtenSahih al-Bukhari reaches us through al-Farabri alone, and nobody who knew him vouched for him, so Mufti Abu Layth says the whole edifice rests on one man. Critics who only know how to debate the Shia avoid this question.
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Mufti Abu Layth credits Jonathan Brown with the decency, after many people pressed him on his Facebook post to debate, of stating openly that he did not have the research in this field. Other critics, he says, are not skilled in it: they know how to debate the Shia and to quote and argue, and he says he is equally honest that Shia sources are not his speciality and that he is not interested in researching them. For these people, he says, everything rests on Sahih al-Bukhari, and it shook their world that Bukhari rests on al-Farabri, who has been glorified for no particular reason and whom nobody vouched for. He repeats his standing offer: bring one person who knew al-Farabri and called him reliable and he will accept everything. He says the whole dogma that makes the Quran revolve around Bukhari is built on the shoulders of one man, that this is not al-Farabri's fault since the book was an investment and a project for him and we know nothing about him beyond his students and this claim to fame, and that fame and money follow such things. He mentions being asked moments earlier whether he would gain more followers if he wore a thobe and a hat, and says he is certain they would grow exponentially.
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you know the whether it was the sultana or whether it was younini or whether it was all of these they said oh he doesn't know what he's talking about uh mufti doesn't know so i thought okay i said come on let's have a dialogue and when i started sharing my information and i've got a whole hearty gate video i say prove to me go on how difficult is it to prove to me ferrari is authentic just show it in a book and job done i shall right so but you can't do it you can't do it from somebody who actually knew february you can't do it you can only do it from people who come hundreds of years later right so so it's easy to shut me up to
show me that i'm wrong now then he at least okay the decency he had is because so many people pestered jonathan brown on his facebook post saying look why don't you just have a dialogue with multiple leads then he openly on his post said look the truth is i don't have the research in this field so take it but these other people like you know gangutili and these people they the truth is they're not skilled in this they just know how to debate shia they just know how to quote stuff and argue with the shia and okay the shia thing is not my special like if you ask me
i'll talk about shia resources and they kind of i mean their sources and their books and it's not my specialty i don't have the research in shia texts okay so i'm just going to be honest with you look i don't have the research in that now i would have to learn and i'm not really interested in learning about all that kind of stuff so so i'm just being honest like if it's not my forte i'm not going to get involved so but with these people because everything rests on sahil bukhari and obviously it shook their world that bukhari rests on this bacharach robbery and for robberies neither here neither they
you know he's just he's just been like glorified for no particular reason nobody actually vouched for him and and i just said look bring me one person that new ferrari that said he's reliable and i will everything right here just i accept what you say you cannot bring me a single person that knew foreign and could vouch for him and yet this whole dogma of islam that you make the quran go around bihari is built on the back of the uh you know on the shoulders of this one man one man one man and look what he's done to this ummah
i'm not saying it's his fault i'm not saying it's his fault he just did what he would have done you know he for him it was just an investment he was part of this he was involved in the project whether we got it wrong right whether we got it wrong whether he was reliable whether he's unreliable we don't know because we don't know anything about him we just know he's this guy who had a bunch of students and his claim to fame was this that's his claim to fame you know why wouldn't you jump with fame you know something's going to bring you money it's going to bring you fame look at all these colors somebody said to me a moment ago look muffy be honest if you were a thobe when you wore a hat and you did this would you not get more
followers i said i i'm certain that they would exponentially grow if i was to do that and and this is and he's asking me surprised because the truth is most people out there if something will bring them some value they would take it you know it's capital at the end of the day if and when it's a commodity they would wear a thought they and then they get later on caught out for being fake now this thing brought in fame this brought him money bought him wealth they bought him status i'm not saying he was an evil person i'm not saying that he was just like every other human who's who saw an opportunity and took it
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Mufti Abu Layth. (2020, October 20). Who vouched for al-Farabri, the transmitter of Sahih al-Bukhari? [Video, segment 2020-10-20-S02, auto-transcribed, may contain errors]. Mufti Abu Layth Archive. Retrieved November 1, 2026, from https://muftiabulayth.org/r/v-1hd1uambm/s/2/
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@misc{abulayth-2020-10-20-S02, author = {Mufti Abu Layth}, title = {{Who vouched for al-Farabri, the transmitter of Sahih al-Bukhari?}}, year = {2020}, month = {10}, date = {2020-10-20}, howpublished = {\url{https://muftiabulayth.org/r/v-1hd1uambm/s/2/}}, url = {https://muftiabulayth.org/r/v-1hd1uambm/s/2/}, organization = {Mufti Abu Layth Archive}, urldate = {2026-11-01}, note = {Segment 2020-10-20-S02, auto-transcribed, may contain errors} }
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