Research › Hadith studies › False and fabricated hadith
29 answers in 13 recordings, 2018 to 2022. 25 with a checked position in his own words.
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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
· 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
· 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
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
· 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
· 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
· 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
· 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
· 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”
1:30:52TranscriptCite 2022-08-19-S17corrected
· 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”
1:40:57TranscriptCite 2022-08-19-S18corrected
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