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· Is the hadith of the crying tree trunk authentic?
Mufti Abu Layth says the stories of the tree crying for the Prophet are unreliable.
“the tree started crying and the Prophet came and put his hand on it these things are unreliable these stories”
9:30TranscriptCite 2018-02-09-S03corrected
· Are some hadith about the Prophet actually blasphemous?
Mufti Abu Layth says that reports such as the Prophet having relations with a nine-year-old or becoming impotent are rubbish that should be denounced as blasphemy.
“absolute utter rubbish these things are rubbish garbage being rigged educated in the name of Islam fuel for Islamophobia I urge you I beg you to please denounce this rubbish as blasphemy”
21:49TranscriptCite 2018-02-09-S05corrected
· Did someone really do magic on the Prophet?
Mufti Abu Layth says the incident of magic being done on the Prophet in Madinah is falsely attributed.
“this a falsely attributed incident that the Prophet had magic turn onto him this is not only a blast blasphemous it is dishonorable”
6:50TranscriptCite 2018-02-13b-S02corrected
Mufti Abu Layth says the claims that the Prophet was sexually impotent, married a nine-year-old or became clumsy under a spell are untrue and an attack on the Prophet's honour, that he has shown the reports on the marriage to have problems in their chains, and that those who affirm such claims are themselves being blasphemous.
“of course is wrong because it's not true it's an attack on the honor of the Prophet what is wrong with you”
43:30TranscriptCite 2018-02-21-S11corrected
· The white minaret of Damascus: places that did not exist in the Prophet's time
Mufti Abu Layth says hadith placing Jesus's descent at a white minaret in Damascus are suspect because no such minaret existed in the Prophet's time and Damascus became central only after it became the Umayyad capital.
“the Muslims move the capital to Damascus the Muslim capital ends up as Damascus all of a sudden subhanAllah there's so many hadith about Damascus now”
1:15:55TranscriptCite 2018-03-13-S19corrected
· Israiliyyat in hadith: man in God's image and creation on the Sabbath
Mufti Abu Layth says reports such as God creating man in his image and creating the soil on the Sabbath are Israiliyyat taken from Genesis, as Imam Malik and Ibn Taymiyya held, even when their chains are sound.
“it's just a verse out of the Bible I don't care if you say the Prophet said it it's the Prophet did not so this is this is these makes no sense this is just Christian doctrine”
1:18:31TranscriptCite 2018-03-13-S20corrected
· Why hadith, not the Quran or fiqh, was corrupted: Umar ibn Abd al-Aziz, Zuhri and forged chains
Mufti Abu Layth holds that people hostile to Islam brought the belief in Jesus's return in as Christian propaganda through hadith, which went undocumented for about a century and whose chains could be copied, and that this is why Imam Malik told people to rely on inherited practice over isolated reports.
“would you not attack Islam ideologically would you not put propaganda you would and that's what these people have done they did that they brought in their Christian baggage”
1:27:32TranscriptCite 2018-03-13-S23corrected
· On what principles can a hadith in Bukhari be rejected, and may ordinary Muslims do so?
Mufti Abu Layth says that a hadith with a valid chain must still be rejected if it goes against reason, the established Quran and Sunnah, or the principles of Islam, that creed requires mutawatir reports according to the Hanafi and Maturidi majority, that lay people may suspend a hadith that troubles them while seeking guidance, and that the gecko hadith is made up.
“there you go that's my methodology and if any hadith clashes with these things it's unacceptable unacceptable”
20:00TranscriptCite 2018-04-01-S05corrected
· If Mufti Abu Layth admires Qadi Iyad, must he accept everything in al-Shifa?
Mufti Abu Layth says that rating Qadi Iyad highly does not oblige him to accept every report in al-Shifa, which was written to instil love of the Prophet in a context of insults and knowingly includes weak and fabricated reports, and that Qadi Iyad himself disagreed with Malik on several matters.
“he brought that for a reason because he wasn't trying to have an academic debate he was trying to instill the love of the Prophet in the hearts of people”
1:22:36TranscriptCite 2018-04-09-S18corrected
· Are there authentic hadith showing the Prophet casting out jinn?
Mufti Abu Layth holds that no hadith cited for jinn possession is free of criticism, that the sound version of Uthman ibn Abi al-As's complaint in Sahih Muslim mentions no jinn, as al-Nawawi notes, and that the Prophet, sent as a mercy to mankind, never taught about so ubiquitous a danger in any sound transmission.
“not a single hadith that is free of criticism there are a few hadith I mean there are many hadees which are just completely week or week”
13:03TranscriptCite 2018-04-15-S04corrected
· Was magic done on the Prophet? Why he rejects the report
Mufti Abu Layth says he considers the reports of magic being done on the Prophet an affront to the honour of the Prophet.
“like this to this extent I consider this an affront to the honour of the Prophet Muhammad”
19:16TranscriptCite 2018-04-15b-S04corrected
· Is the hadith about women wearing perfume being zaniya authentic?
Mufti Abu Layth says the perfume report is not sahih and is a lie attributed to the Prophet, because it rests on a single chain through the weak Thabit ibn Umara from the little-known Ghunaym ibn Qays, and some early authorities did not attribute it to the Prophet.
“this hadith is not sorry okay it is not sorry this hadith is life life people and this is a lie attributed to the messenger of allah sallallahu alayhi wasallam”
3:05TranscriptCite 2018-05-04b-S02corrected
· Would the Prophet really call a woman wearing perfume a fornicator?
Mufti Abu Layth says the report slanders the Prophet, since calling a woman a fornicator is qadhf punishable under the Quran and, for the Malikis, regardless of intention, and the Prophet was never obscene and would not have labelled women this way to deter them.
“this is the Prophet would never ever have said something like this this is a slander against the honor of the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam right that he would speak about women in such a way”
15:38TranscriptCite 2018-05-04b-S03corrected
· Doesn't the hadith of Zaynab forbid women from wearing perfume to the mosque?
Mufti Abu Layth says Zaynab's report, which mentions only the late Isha and in some versions addresses her alone, was a specific instruction for an unstated reason and not a general prohibition of perfume for women.
“in my understanding this was just an isolated incident that may whatever it was it was not a general ruling because if it was a general ruling the Prophet”
21:55TranscriptCite 2018-05-04b-S04corrected
· Is a woman's prayer rejected if she wears perfume to the mosque?
Mufti Abu Layth says the report that a perfumed woman's prayer is not accepted until she bathes is not from the Prophet, rests on unknown and weak narrators, and is followed by no one.
“that hadith is utterly utterly unacceptable as a hadith from the prophet salallahu alaihe salam whether these things somehow above herrera said them or not is a different story but nobody accepts these rulings”
25:47TranscriptCite 2018-05-04b-S05corrected
· Can women wear perfume when they go out?
Mufti Abu Layth says women may wear perfume when they go out, that everyone should smell good and be presentable, and that the reports calling such women fornicators must not be attributed to the Prophet.
“yes of course they can work perfume when they go out and people should wear a certain amount of perfume people should always smell good”
27:04TranscriptCite 2018-05-04b-S06corrected
· Do the angels curse a wife who refuses her husband in bed?
Mufti Abu Layth says he believes the hadith about a wife who stays away from her husband's bed is weak and unacceptable, clashing with the Quran.
“there's this hadith which is weak I believe it's unacceptable utterly clashes with the Quranic clashes with the authentic sana clashes with the principles of Islam”
3:50TranscriptCite 2018-07-08-S02corrected
· Did the Prophet say women lack intellect and faith?
Mufti Abu Layth says the report that women lack intellect and faith is inauthentic and falsely attributed to the Prophet.
“I'm going to read this hadith and demonstrate today that this hadith is inauthentic it is not true and I'll show the many problems with this attribution misattribution to the Prophet”
3:13TranscriptCite 2018-07-29-S01corrected
· Does the Quran say most people in hell are women?
Mufti Abu Layth says the Quran never makes a gender differentiation regarding the people of hell, so the report goes against it.
“speaking about people and and the afterlife and people damnation it never makes gender differentiation ever in the Koran right so this seems to be a new principle which is going up against the Quran”
9:43TranscriptCite 2018-07-29-S02corrected
· Why do the versions of the 'women in hell' hadith contradict each other?
Mufti Abu Layth says the narrations show turbulence, since the narrators could not say on which of the two Eids the address took place.
“the person narrating keeps saying I I can't even remember which one it was so some turbulence let's move on more turbulence”
14:48TranscriptCite 2018-07-29-S03corrected
· Do women really curse more than men, as the hadith says?
Mufti Abu Layth says the report contains a factual error, since men always outperform women in swearing in every culture.
“it is unquestionable in any culture that men always outperform women in swearing right so this is one important point that this is actually a factual error”
19:12TranscriptCite 2018-07-29-S04corrected
· Is not praying during menstruation a sign of weak faith?
Mufti Abu Layth says it is absurd to say women lack faith for not praying while menstruating, when the religion itself told them not to pray.
“do you not refrain from praying when you menstruating say yes I said well that's the lack of your faith wealthy irony here is that these rules have come to them from the religion so”
25:01TranscriptCite 2018-07-29-S05corrected
· Are the chains of the 'women lack intellect' hadith sound?
Mufti Abu Layth says all the chains of the report have some problem, so it is not unquestionably sound.
“all of these people have some problems the reason I'm highlighting this is to show that look when these narrations already have AE they have problems in the chain they have these are not unquestionably sound”
38:45TranscriptCite 2018-07-29-S06corrected
· What is the hadith about Abu Hurayra, the thief and Ayat al-Kursi?
Mufti Abu Layth says the Sahih al-Bukhari report of Abu Hurayra being taught Ayat al-Kursi by a thieving devil is fabricated or mis-transmitted, contradicts the Quran and Sunnah and disrespects Islam.
“fabricated or Mis transmitted hadith in salvo hari which is this one about a bull rider of the law unquote the devil and the devil taught him something ridiculous totally ridiculous I mean it completely contradicts the Quran and Sunnah”
0:00TranscriptCite 2018-08-12-S01corrected
· Did Abu Hurayra learn to recite Ayat al-Kursi at bedtime from a devil?
Mufti Abu Layth holds that the report is blasphemous and a mockery of the deen, since it shows Abu Hurayra clumsy and disobedient, the Prophet failing to teach and tolerating theft from the treasury, and the devil teaching Islam, against Imam Malik's principle that everything of the deen was taught by the Prophet.
“what how blasphemous disrespectful is this hadith it shows Abu Huraira to be incredibly”
5:47TranscriptCite 2018-08-12-S02corrected
· Problematic reports in Bukhari: the Isra, Moses and the rock, magic on the Prophet
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”
20:50TranscriptCite 2018-08-30-S04corrected
· Solomon's ninety women, the rich held back from paradise, Fatima angry with Abu Bakr
Mufti Abu Layth says the Bukhari report of Solomon vowing to sleep with ninety women and being punished with a disabled child for not saying 'if Allah wills' is disgusting and disrespectful to a prophet of God.
“this is a prophet of god who can't be bothered to say i mean just look at that hadith that is disgusting this is so disrespectful to our prophets”
29:21TranscriptCite 2018-08-30-S05corrected
· More troubling reports: Umar's stoning verse, the adulterous monkeys, women in hellfire
Mufti Abu Layth says the Bukhari report of monkeys stoning an adulterer makes no sense, since adultery belongs to the human institution of marriage, which does not exist among animals.
“adultery is to do with the institution of marriage institutions don't exist in the monkey world or in the animal world okay”
45:42TranscriptCite 2018-08-30-S08corrected
Mufti Abu Layth says the Bukhari report in which Umar speaks of a verse of stoning that was revealed and recited is disrespectful to Umar and to the Quran, since there is no verse of stoning in the Quran and the report amounts to saying the Quran has changed, and he highlights another Bukhari report in which the Prophet forgets a verse.
“so this is disrespectful to - Omar is disrespectful to the Quran is trying to say that what is saying the Quran has changed”
9:35TranscriptCite 2018-09-01-S02corrected
Mufti Abu Layth says the Bukhari report that the Prophet fell unconscious after removing his izar to carry stones for the Kaaba and was never seen naked again is nonsense that disrespects the Prophet, and that the scholars' efforts to soften it contradict its own wording.
“this is how we are repaying the our profits with respect that is nonsense”
11:29TranscriptCite 2018-09-01-S03corrected
· What is the Bukhari report about the Prophet seeing a woman beside Umar's palace in paradise?
Mufti Abu Layth says the Bukhari report in which the Prophet turns away from a woman beside Umar's palace in paradise because of Umar's jealousy casts the Prophet in a poor light.
“look what light its casting upon our beloved prophet sallallahu alayhi wasallam”
14:39TranscriptCite 2018-09-01-S04corrected
· Does Sahih al-Bukhari say the Prophet pointed to Aisha's house as the source of fitna?
Mufti Abu Layth says the Bukhari report in which the Prophet points to Aisha's house as the place where the fitna and the horn of Shaytan will rise is disrespectful to the Prophet and to Aisha, and that Muslims need to question what they present as authentic.
“what the hell is wrong with these people well this is so disrespectful to our prophet”
29:09TranscriptCite 2018-09-01-S09corrected
· Why does Mufti Abu Layth say BukhariGate matters?
Mufti Abu Layth holds that BukhariGate matters because the whole of Sahih al-Bukhari rests on al-Farabri alone and because its reports repay the Prophet, Umar and Aisha with disrespect, and he attributes the circulation of these reports to Wahhabis and their sympathisers, whom he calls haters of the Prophet.
“this is why Buhari gate was so important and we have to remember this whole book transmitted on the back of one man robbery robbery”
30:22TranscriptCite 2018-09-01-S10corrected
· Are the hadith about the khilafah authentic?
Mufti Abu Layth says every hadith about the khilafah is fabricated.
“every single hadith about the Shelia I'm telling you is fabricated the Prophet in the times of the Arabs they never even used to use this word”
12:04TranscriptCite 2018-09-03-S03corrected
· Was the Prophet Muhammad poisoned, and did he die from it?
Mufti Abu Layth holds that the Prophet did not die of poisoning and that the report in which the Prophet says in his final illness that he feels the poison cutting his aorta is a fabricated story.
“Now first of all this is nonsense. Okay the prophet did not die of poisoning.”
2:31TranscriptCite 2018-09-17-S01corrected
· Is the chain of the hadith that the Prophet died of poison reliable?
Mufti Abu Layth holds that the chain of the poisoning report is unacceptable because Yunus was faulted by early critics for his memory and al-Zuhri does not state that he heard it.
“I will show the contradiction and then also show from the chain perspective why it is unacceptable.”
3:26TranscriptCite 2018-09-17-S02corrected
· How can the same poison kill one companion at once and the Prophet three years later?
Mufti Abu Layth holds that the poisoning story is internally contradictory, since the companion who ate the food died at once while the Prophet is said to have died from the same poison three years later.
“This is already a contradiction. The fact that dies from that poison, how can that poison take three years when Bishar has already died from it?”
9:09TranscriptCite 2018-09-17-S03corrected
· Does the hadith that the Prophet died of poison contradict the Quran?
Mufti Abu Layth says the poisoning report clashes with the Quran's promise to protect the Prophet from the people and makes the Prophet's death resemble the punishment described in the Quran for one who forges revelation.
“Allah said in the Quran that that oh messenger of God that stand up with the message Allah will protect you and here evidently Allah has not then protected him”
10:35TranscriptCite 2018-09-17-S04corrected
· Why should Muslims reject the hadith that the Prophet died of poison?
Mufti Abu Layth holds that a hadith contradicting the overall message of the Quran must be set aside, as Imam Malik did, and that saying the Prophet died of poisoning insults Islam, God and the Prophet.
“We need to learn from the the examples of Im Malik Im Abu Hanifh that when a hadith comes that contradicts the overall message of the Quran you need to put it aside.”
12:47TranscriptCite 2018-09-17-S05corrected
· Do Muslims really get 72 virgins in Paradise?
Mufti Abu Layth says there is no mention anywhere of a number of 72 or 73 virgins, which he thinks may come from a fabricated or extremely weak report, while the Quran does mention women and virgins in Paradise in modest terms and some non-sahih reports speak of sexual relations there.
“this number I don't know I think it comes in some fabricated or extremely weak hadith maybe and for some reason people have just circulated it”
0:00TranscriptCite 2018-10-08-S01corrected
· Does the Sana'a manuscript show that the Quran was changed?
Mufti Abu Layth holds that the Sana'a find does not show an evolving Quran: the manuscript dates to the first century like others, the Quran was the one text documented and taught everywhere from the start, and it was too widespread and too distinctive in style to corrupt, so fabrication targeted hadith instead.
“this finding does not show that this was an evolution in Pro in progress or the Quran was for example a working model that people were working on it and changing it”
12:02TranscriptCite 2019-03-01-S04corrected
· Is it better for women to pray at home than in the mosque?
Mufti Abu Layth says the reports placing a woman's prayer at home above the Prophet's mosque go against the sahih hadith of women attending the mosque.
“it goes against that which is Asahi ad it goes against the hadith that many women would come inside Buhari they would leave fajr salah”
15:47TranscriptCite 2019-05-04-S04corrected
· Is the hadith about women praying in the darkest part of the house authentic?
Mufti Abu Layth says the narrations about a woman praying in the darkest part of her house are either fabricated or very weak.
“we can go on and on with these narrations these narrations are either fabricated or very weak they clash with the sahih hadith”
29:48TranscriptCite 2019-05-04-S05corrected
· If I drank alcohol, are my prayers and fasts rejected for 40 days?
Mufti Abu Layth says the salah and fast of someone who has drunk alcohol or taken drugs remain valid.
“so the fasts the Salah is valid still and if once again things like alcohol and drugs are bad they are wrong”
10:16TranscriptCite 2019-05-24-S01corrected
· Why people fabricated hadith: good intentions, false memories, money and politics
Mufti Abu Layth says some people fabricated teachings with good intentions, saying they lied for the Prophet rather than against him.
“believe it or not people have done this it's like some of them used to say that we don't fabricate again the profit we fabricate for the profit”
8:16TranscriptCite 2019-09-28-S02corrected
· Is it a Sunnah for women to pray in a wardrobe or the innermost room?
Mufti Abu Layth says the report used to call women praying in a wardrobe a Sunnah is a weak and in fact false hadith, not a saying of the Prophet.
“because he is this weak hadith which is a false hadith people it's not even a saying of the Prophet”
5:05TranscriptCite 2020-01-17-S02corrected
· Is the hadith about conquering Constantinople authentic?
Mufti Abu Layth says it seems very plausible to him that the Prophet may have foretold the conquest of Constantinople, because it symbolised power in that region.
“I do feel that it may have had a a significant that the Prophet may have said it seems very plausible because not so much of because of it but more so”
1:46:40TranscriptCite 2020-07-14-S28corrected
Mufti Abu Layth says Aisha unquestionably stood up for women's rights.
“that unquestionably Aisha was somebody who stood up for women's rights and she has many hadith critiquing certain narrations that people were misattributing to the prophet”
37:33TranscriptCite 2020-08-04-S08corrected
· Were the hadith about the black flags against the Abbasids?
Mufti Abu Layth says the hadith that the Mahdi's army will come with black flags were, if anything, part and parcel of Abbasid propaganda rather than directed against the Abbasids.
“the mahdi's army will be coming with the black flags so i don't think they would have served auntie uh if anything they were part and parcel of the abbasid propaganda”
25:41TranscriptCite 2020-08-24-S07corrected
· Did the Prophet really order Jews and Christians expelled from Arabia?
Mufti Abu Layth says he finds the hadith ordering the expulsion of the Jews and Christians from the Arabian Peninsula incredibly suspect and does not believe it is true.
“leave that this doesn't add up you see so i find this hadith incredibly suspect”
2:11:50TranscriptCite 2020-08-24-S30corrected
· Why did most commentators say God commanded the sacrifice?
Mufti Abu Layth says the traditional view that God commanded the sacrifice entered Islamic thought through Jewish and Judaeo-Christian narratives taken by early Muslims, and he cites the reading attributed to Ibn Abbas that Ibrahim saw something that suggested to him he had been commanded.
“you have to understand that a lot of our early islamic thought has been influenced by the israelites by jewish judeo-christian narratives that have been floating”
13:55TranscriptCite 2020-10-28-S04corrected
· Do any authentic hadith prove jinn possession?
Mufti Abu Layth says the hadith cited for possession prove nothing: the Bukhari report that Satan runs in the veins concerns suspicion, the Bukhari report of the epileptic woman treats epilepsy as an illness to be borne patiently, and the remaining reports in Ibn Majah and elsewhere are weak.
“my point of saying these people is that there is nothing authentic to prove this hocus pocus”
42:22TranscriptCite 2020-11-21-S08corrected
· Do I have to be in a state of purity to say verses of the Quran?
Mufti Abu Layth says these kinds of hadiths are to him an encouragement showing that the deen ought to be very natural to our lives.
“these kind of hadiths are to me and an encouragement to show that the deen ought to be very natural to our lives”
43:52TranscriptCite 2021-01-12-S09corrected
· Is the hadith 'if there were a prophet after me it would be Umar' authentic?
Mufti Abu Layth says the hadith 'if there were a prophet after me it would be Umar' is not an established hadith from the Prophet but a fabrication.
“so just to explain that this hadith is not an established hadith from the prophet sallam is a fabrication”
3:01:30TranscriptCite 2021-01-12-S41corrected
· How could hadith chains and texts have been standardised over time?
Mufti Abu Layth says editors who standardise variant chains and texts to match the majority, even with good intentions, erase evidence of how reports were actually transmitted, and that this may also have happened unnoticed with the classical hadith collections.
“you're standardizing a model and this is exactly what may have happened in the past see you're just catching it out now because ahmad shakir highlighted this”
2:10:28TranscriptCite 2021-01-26b-S26corrected
· Is rejecting embarrassing hadith about the Prophet just whitewashing history?
Mufti Abu Layth says that, to be fair, one must ask whether one can think of any motive for people to have fabricated a hadith, which critics do not do or do not do fairly.
“But can I as a person think of any motive for people to have fabricated that hadith? And you see this is what they don't do or they don't do fairly.”
33:56TranscriptCite 2021-02-02b-S06corrected
· Umayyad, Abbasid and Zubayrid politics behind the recording of history
Mufti Abu Layth says that the Abbasid movement, when it rose to overthrow the Umayyads, was a Shia movement.
“But initially the Abbasid movement rose like when it rose from and to overthrow Bunny, it was a Shia movement.”
39:25TranscriptCite 2021-02-02b-S07corrected
· Is the hadith that nobody will believe in Allah at the end of time authentic?
Mufti Abu Layth says that most hadith to do with the end of times are usually made up.
“You see most hadith to do with the end of times these es um you know apocalyptic hadith most of them are usually made up.”
1:31:01TranscriptCite 2021-02-02b-S16corrected
· Do Muslims have to believe that Jesus will come back?
Mufti Abu Layth says the hadith of Jesus descending as a judge on earth was made up from Christian belief taken from the Bible.
“which is the verse out of the bible by the way and it's christian belief and that's how this hadith was made up through abu hurairah and through those people who mixed it up”
5:45TranscriptCite 2021-02-14-S01corrected
· Is the hadith about a woman breastfeeding the adult Salim authentic?
Mufti Abu Layth says the report that the Prophet told a woman to let the grown Salim drink her milk is fabricated, because it is ridiculous.
“allegedly the prophet said well why don't you let him drink your milk now he doesn't mention how to drink that milk and this hadith is fabricated anyway because it's ridiculous”
3:23:55TranscriptCite 2021-03-02-S43corrected
· Did the Prophet say a wife should prostrate to her husband?
Mufti Abu Layth says the report that the Prophet would have ordered wives to prostrate to their husbands is not authentic and was probably circulated to support the family hierarchy of a patriarchal society, and that the report urging violent jealousy over female relatives is likewise fabricated.
“no this hadith isn't authentic but um I feel that people may have”
50:44TranscriptCite 2021-04-06-S09corrected
· Did the Prophet really spy on a boy he thought was the Dajjal?
Mufti Abu Layth says the reports in which the Prophet spies on the child Ibn Sayyad suspecting him to be the Dajjal, and related reports in Sahih Muslim and Bukhari, are absurd and insulting to the Prophet's dignity, and that their contradictory accounts of the Dajjal's identity and location show they are not revelation.
“The prophet had an immensely dignified character. He didn't used to run around hiding behind trees, spying on children”
2:35:49TranscriptCite 2021-04-06-S26corrected
· Where does the belief in the Mahdi come from?
Mufti Abu Layth says the belief in a Mahdi is disrespectful to the Prophet, who was the rightly guided saviour, and that it entered Sunni Islam from early Shia political movements, the Mahdi hadith being fabricated descriptions of figures of that time.
“I find this concept disrespectful to the prophet because there the rightly guided person for this um was the prophet sallallahu alaihi wasallam”
2:44:43TranscriptCite 2021-04-06-S27corrected
· Why do some religious people dislike laughter?
Mufti Abu Layth says institutionalised religion has always disliked humour because satire lets ordinary people see absurdity and question authority, and that reports against laughing much were fabricated for this reason.
“i feel that institutionalized religion has always hated uh humor because it's felt that humor hmm you know it's just this is something that if you allow it to enter the realm of religion authority will disappear”
1:12:01TranscriptCite 2021-04-13-S19corrected
· What are the satanic verses in Islamic history?
Mufti Abu Layth says the prostration of everyone present when the Prophet recited Surah al-Najm is documented, possibly out of respect at the mention of their gods, but that the narrations claiming the Prophet praised the three goddesses are false.
“the people fall into sujud they go into such that this incident is documented it is in bukhari it is in muslim”
1:05:26TranscriptCite 2022-08-19-S13corrected
· Is Quran 22:52 about the satanic verses incident?
Mufti Abu Layth says the story that the Prophet praised the idols, or that Satan spoke in his voice, is absurd, and that 22:52, in a Madinan surah, has nothing to do with it.
“first of all this verse is not speaking about anything to do with that okay this verse suratul hajj right is in the surah of hajj which is an issue of madinah”
1:11:50TranscriptCite 2022-08-19-S14corrected
· What did the classical Maliki scholars say about the satanic verses story?
Mufti Abu Layth says the Maliki scholars rightly rejected the satanic verses narrations as fabricated, and that even a sahih report contradicting the Quran would be rejected, let alone weak ones.
“this is why many of the ulama of islam oh sorry especially the malikiah very clearly made it very clear that look all of these things are utterly absurd they have no standing”
1:14:40TranscriptCite 2022-08-19-S15corrected
· Why did Ibn Hajar say the satanic verses story has some basis?
Mufti Abu Layth says Ibn Hajar was wrong to argue that the many weak chains give the satanic verses story a basis, a mistake he attributes to passion for the hadith project rather than to malice.
“this is ibn hajjar's clear blind mistake that he it's and i'm not saying he he i'm not saying he did this out of malice he didn't”
1:25:04TranscriptCite 2022-08-19-S16corrected
· What does the Quran say against the satanic verses story?
Mufti Abu Layth says the Quran itself rules out the satanic verses story, since it says the Prophet does not speak from desire and that Satan has no power over people beyond calling them, so he cannot speak in the Prophet's voice.
“shaytan does not have the power to be talking impersonating your voice this is what qadha yad mentions this is what ibn arabi mentions”
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· Which scholars accepted the satanic verses story and which rejected it?
Mufti Abu Layth says the satanic verses story was fabricated by people unhappy with Islam, as Ibn Khuzayma said, and that Ibn Taymiyya and Muhammad ibn Abd al-Wahhab were wrong to incline towards accepting it.
“who clearly said look this was people who weren't happy with islam just kind of built on that story that was about all the people prostrating”
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· Why does Mufti Abu Layth see the Quran-only movement as a reaction of anger?
Mufti Abu Layth says he perceives the Quranist movement as a reaction of anger to hadith that are misused, an anger sometimes justified, and he holds that Aisha married in her late teens, that the hadith on killing the apostate is fabricated and its application was political, and that hadith are wrongly used to justify abuse and misogyny.
“I feel that the Quranist movement is really it's you know it's a kind of reaction with a lot of rage a lot of anger almost and negativity”
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