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Imam Abu Hanifa was deemed a heretic/deviant by his contemporaries - Mufti Abu Layth al-Maliki

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1 · 0:00Was Abu Hanifa considered a deviant by the scholars of his time?The Hanafi school and Imam Abu Hanifa · Orthodoxy and how Islam spread · Scholars and imams of the pastmachine 3 min 57 s0:00on YouTube
2 · 3:57Can people with very different religious views still talk with respect?Character and virtue · The Mufti and the channelmachine 1 min 53 s3:57on YouTube

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0:00

check this out people I read out to your quote which will shock you right that this is an interesting quote and it will it will show you actually what I'm talking about check this out I was coming across this the other day somebody sent it to me is really interesting speaking about Iijima obukhov Nevada who the sillustani abu dawood son a great scholar Yahoo Leah's hobby he Morocco Luna theme as a Latina Tata alaihe Malik was Hubbell was chef he was able while I was there I was Istanbul well has an egg masala was hobble what

0:39

Sufi an authority was hobble Mohammed Amin humble was hobble he he said what he said to his students what would you say about an issue in which Malik and his companions agreed upon Shelfari and his companions all agreed upon oh sorry and all his companions agreed upon sophie-anne authority and all his companions agreed upon hassan in a Salah and all his companions agreed upon a humble and all his companions agreed upon so they said yeah but let's economist Illuminati they said oh work and he was a great Mahadev there is no mass Alamo soundin that and check what he said this

1:19

is he said for Karl aha una y : he said all of these have said it tougher oh they agreed that Todd Lee Lee abu hanifa upon the misguidance of abu hanifa and look at that look check this out Abe no Jared if nabbed Albert brings this in his book about Abu Hanifah linty ignore Jared was a great scholar leaning into a surfer he sought and a great mom had this wrote in his book at door of our master Luke in those who are rejecting writers he said I'm not - Abbot abu hanifa and he is from the rejected and

1:57

weak transmitters not Manila sahabat above hanifa check this a jewel or hadith eOne the majority of his hadith is just an illusion and then he said waka deliver he Islamic oh my god he said this and there's a disagreement about his Islam whether his Islam is valid or not now check that out that some quotes about imam abu hanifa in his time he was deemed an absolute deviant by people Imam Malik although had respect for him but considered his ways unacceptable

2:36

all the scholars considered his ways unacceptable now because he happened to live in Iraq where the capital city was where the Muslim Caliphate was the caliphs asked him to become the Imam the supreme judge he refuses but because his student becomes the supreme judge of the Muslim world the kadhi Aquabot he refuses to appoint any judges anywhere unless they Hanafy all of a sudden the hanafi madhhab becomes acceptable and it becomes the most powerful method now you tell me is that based on studies is that

3:14

based on evidences is that based on objectivity or is it based on power positions is based on power positions so this is how you see in in fact is an interesting study into how iran about three hundred years ago became shia because iran pre if you go look at the history of Iran or Persia pre let's say four hundred five hundred years ago and going backwards it was not Shia it was actually suddenly heavily Scheffer how does it become suddenly Shia so it's interesting

3:52

and they go sir it becomes suddenly she had just through politics because of the Shah and so on converting and having his beef with the the the other rulers and so on so in religion things on seldom based on pure objectivity they usually based on power positions so that's that's the the kind of thing but yeah I thought that's definitely worth mentioning but it was an interesting and amazing conversation and I think it I'd like to say that look the reason I also made an article Shir doc in Ron's article sorry his facebook

4:29

status that and his and by the way he got a lot of slack for making a Facebook post about me and people said to him that oh how can you and somebody said on there that do you know Mufti lathe has got a degree in psychology so he's manipulating you [Laughter] psychologically to kind of is using you to is that what people give me so much credit I wish I was a fraction of what people make me out to be but yeah but one thing I did want to say is that the reason I think it was really interesting

5:08

especially speaking to people like dark and dark especially is because he had such a different position from me and yet you can sit and talk with respect and you can enjoy each other's company walk away thinking you know what that was a solid kind of sitting even though we disagree on so many things and this is the kind of other that we need to return to so and that is really the messenger of allah des allies speaking of when he says were in the colada hole open our theme indeed you are upon agree on greatness when it comes to

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Mufti Abu Layth. (2018, April 20). Imam Abu Hanifa was deemed a heretic/deviant by his contemporaries - Mufti Abu Layth al-Maliki [Video, auto-transcribed, may contain errors]. Mufti Abu Layth Archive. Retrieved November 1, 2026, from https://muftiabulayth.org/r/zn1-wlbys2i/
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Mufti Abu Layth. 2018. "Imam Abu Hanifa was deemed a heretic/deviant by his contemporaries - Mufti Abu Layth al-Maliki." Video, auto-transcribed, may contain errors. Mufti Abu Layth Archive. Recorded April 20, 2018. Accessed November 1, 2026. https://muftiabulayth.org/r/zn1-wlbys2i/
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  date = {2018-04-20},
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