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Problematic reports in Bukhari: the Isra, Moses and the rock, magic on the Prophet
hadeeth ahadith ahaadeeth hadis hadees ahaadith saheeh sahih hadith saheeh hadith sound hadith authentic al-bukhari imam bukhari sahih al-bukhari saheeh al-bukhari saheeh bukhari imam al-bukhari ka'bah ka'ba kaabah shari'ah shariat sharee'ah muftis sihr sihar jadu jadoo kala jadu sorcery koran quraan al-quran ayah aya ayat ayaat aayah aayat wahy wahi wahee talaaq triple talaq talak zina zinaa zinah fornication subhan allah subhaanallah subhanallaah salam as-salamu alaykum assalamu alaikum assalamualaikum salaams salam alaykum wa alaykum as-salam peace greeting
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This segment18:23 to 28:02 · 9 min 39 sGeneral teaching
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machinesummary, machine-writtenSeveral reports in Bukhari are factually wrong or disrespectful: the Isra dated before prophethood, a woman spurning the Prophet, Moses chasing a rock, a verse corrected on the spot, and magic making the Prophet forget intercourse. He also holds the night journey to have been a vision.
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Mufti Abu Layth turns to what the book contains, beginning with what he calls a factual error: a report dating the Prophet's night journey from the Kaaba to before he was a prophet, which he says everyone rejects, adding that he himself holds the night journey to have been a vision. He reads hadith 5255 from the book of divorce, in which the Prophet asks a Muslim woman to give herself to him and she answers that a queen does not give herself to low-lifes and seeks refuge in Allah from him, which he calls nonsense that disrespects the Prophet. He reads the report that Moses bathed alone because of a swollen testicle, explaining the word udra, and that a rock ran off with his clothes until he beat it. He reads hadith 4594 in which a verse on those who stay behind from fighting is revealed and then immediately amended when a blind man objects, and asks why God did not reveal it correctly the first time; he says he has already shown its chains to be weak on a previous Monday night. He reads hadith 5765 from the book of medicine, that magic made the Prophet think he had had intercourse with his wives when he had not, and asks where testimony and justice would stand if the Prophet could not remember whether he had had sex.
Position stated
Mufti Abu Layth says these Bukhari reports contain a factual error, dating the night journey before prophethood, and portray the Prophet and Moses in a disrespectful and irrational light; he adds that he holds the night journey to have been a vision.
“then the prophet tries to touch her and she moves and she says to him i seek refuge in allah from you from who from the prophet nonsense utter nonsense disrespecting our prophet”
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problem in doing that i'm not saying that because of that i want to say the whole book is weak the whole book i'm saying is on is questionable because it is questionable now i'm not making i'm not saying that yes it does complement the first part that there are problematic hadith in bukhari but it's not because of that so now this this whole thing about the authenticity of bukhari i want to just suspend that for a moment i want you to hold your horses on that i'm going to come back to that i would like to first of all show what is this book we're actually dealing with okay now and why i don't think people should
be so they should be flipping about this book because this book can like let's just take a look at some of the stuff it has in it okay let's begin with a actual error in sahih bukhari a factual era people say show [Music] right now
this hadith it speaks about the israel the the night journey of the prophet now to me the night journey was a vision some people believe it was actual that's their choice nevertheless when did it happen this is so the day he went on this it was from the kaaba three people came to him
before he was even a prophet before he was even a prophet he went on this night journey everybody rejects that as nonsensical everybody nobody seems to say that that is uh in any way uh acceptable right now let's take a look at another example right now let's take a look at this
i want to show us something in kitab right hadith five two double five okay the prophet comes to to the house of this woman [Music] and she has a maid with her as well the prophet says to her he says to her he be nafsa give yourself to me okay the prophet she's a muslim by the way the prophet says to her give yourself to
me call it what does she respond does the queen give herself to low lives these are her words then the prophet tries to touch her and she moves and she says to him i seek refuge in allah from you
from who from the prophet nonsense utter nonsense disrespecting our prophet right so okay let's but that's insaal bukhari that's in kitabu talaq hadith 5255 okay all right now let's take a look at another example okay let's waltz on the topic of profits
[Music] nothing stops moses from taking a bath with us except that he has a swollen testicle
so he's got swollen testicles okay look at but wait there just in case you don't believe me in case you don't believe me hans were what does udra mean means scrotal hernia your scrotum testicles have kind of swollen up okay so so for what he put his clothes on a rock so the rock started to run away
so musa alayhi salaam was chasing after the rock saying my clothes oh rock phobia they said you know what he doesn't have a problem his testicles seem normal so and then moussa
barban and he started getting angry and beating the rock up this is moses ali salaam this is the respect that they want us this is what they want to fight over yeah so this is so just to just to show certain things let me show you another this is our prophet apparently this is how revelation used to work and some of the ex-muslims have picked up on this one as well this is in kitab of quran and hadith four five nine four and that the prophet a verse was and
i've done uh i i've covered this in a previous monday night with musty and shown all these chains to be weak but let me read it to you that the prophet said call somebody that revelation has come up write down that those who go out to fight are not the same as those who stay behind and behind
and right behind the prophet was a blind man and i've covered that whether his name was in my previous session he said oh yeah i'm but i'm blind why why am i being faulted then revelation just came down there and then saying oh those who are not disabled who stay behind so the verse got immediately updated and behind the prophet was the blind man but the prophet didn't know and god apparently didn't know that there's a
blind man there so why not reveal the verse properly so this okay so this is uh and this is to show god and the messenger of allah in this light okay let's let's see uh right not stopped yet right okay let's see what it says about our profit okay whilst we're on this topic
the book of medicating uh hadith number 5765 that the prophet had magic done unto him the prophet had magic done unto him until he used to falsely think that he'd had sex with his his wives but he hadn't but he used to think he had sex and they used to tell him that no you haven't wow wow subhanallah
this is our repayment of the profit towards the profit tell me the profit people oh i just had sex oh no no you didn't is the prophet of god getting such a statement this isn't like oh i just put this glass down over here did i put it over here did i put it over there oh i had sex oh i i don't even remember like i'm it's not i don't remember having sex i do remember having sex when it didn't even happen where does testimony go what about those people who came to the prophet and said we committed adultery why was the prophet taking them to task
when he himself allegedly used to think he'd had sex and it never happened how does it where does our sharia remain where is the the justice in all of this where does that leave our prophet salallahu 6639 the prophet solomon alaihissalam call us tonight i will go and have sex with
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@misc{abulayth-2018-08-30-S04, author = {Mufti Abu Layth}, title = {{Problematic reports in Bukhari: the Isra, Moses and the rock, magic on the Prophet}}, year = {2018}, month = {8}, date = {2018-08-30}, howpublished = {\url{https://muftiabulayth.org/r/x6sffyrljey/s/4/}}, url = {https://muftiabulayth.org/r/x6sffyrljey/s/4/}, organization = {Mufti Abu Layth Archive}, urldate = {2026-11-01}, note = {Segment 2018-08-30-S04, auto-transcribed, may contain errors} }
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