Thoughts on Ibadism | Mufti Abu Layth

thoughts on ibadism yeah you know that's ibadis are interesting i mean you see ibadis do help form a kind of triangulation method if we want in islam because they are very early and the way you've got sunnis mainstream and you've got shia but there was another splint that was ibaldi's which were from the khawarij which were the extremists but you know the khawarij

did have um they were like a spectrum not everybody was butchering people but many of them were but not every they had a lot of splinter factions and it happens with any kind of nutcase groups that they then start fighting amongst themselves and hence it happened with the uh as well so you had like the azad and you had other people and you had the ibadis now you know there's some that its roots are with this person called um abdullah ibn

ibab and he's quite early actually so from the time of bunny omega and they also trace it back to jabyrib nazaid as well um the companion oh sorry the the student of the companions although i don't know if some claim he falls into a companion as well but they trace it back to jabari brazil as well so the this group of seem to be the less

nut case type and over time they developed and started to have their own fear and then they they've got like their own fatawa they were very keen on people trying to learn their own fear can develop their own rulings as they go along they also did believe in hadith but they believed in hadith that came i believe mainly through jabber nazid and stuff like that so they only have a very small collection which they their book is also called the sahih something but it comes much later

i think it comes about 300 plus years later on so after like sahil bukhari and stuff um but they also call it the german sahih forgotten what their full name is now but and they do have certain strange prac not strange sorry peculiar practices like they also pray with the arms to the side like the malikia do and they seem to have continued that practice but as time went by they did uh move remove themselves from that extremist um kind of manifesto

so they stopped because you see maybe that's just uh maybe that's just adaptation because in the early days in the time of bunny omega they were in north africa yeah those of you that have watched my andalus stories my endless history or even heard my lecture on abdul rahman ibn marawiya who [Music] who kind of escapes and he the abba sids and then he goes to africa and goes to what is like modern-day

libya but he avoids north africa because there they were the khawarij and the khawaris were also after the umayyads to execute them so they weren't at that stage of peaceful people but then over north africa they get kind of crushed so in time what happens is they seem to have remained an entity in i think around the bahrain region and oman and today they are in oman that's where they still are so oman is a um it it is an ibadi state

so they they have rulers and you know and who is it that passed away recently sultan kabus that's he was really praised by people but in time because they became an extreme minority it was important for them that they're not extreme because if you're extreme you will be crushed and annihilated by the majority so they became very kind of coexisting and all about peace and not all about but all about coexistence and they are quite seen as peaceful so that's a brief history but i would

love to learn more about them in depth i have tried to look out for an ibadi sheikh if i could find one and maybe you know get a dialogue it'd be awesome to get an ibadi sheikh on mind trap you see what is interesting and i've spoken about this on the petra question the makkah question that was this makkah just a abuni umayya invention and i've highlighted that that would have been impossible because you see it's not just the sunnis the shia were anti-pani umayya and the ibadis were anti-bani umayya there's no way that these three

traditions which have continued till today would agree to replace makkah with a different city and replace the hajj with a different location and they would all agree on it that's impossible so this triangulation method is good in ascertaining certain um you know when we want to corroborate certain evidence cool