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29 answers in 13 recordings, 2018 to 2021. 20 with a checked position in his own words.
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· 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 the Prophet take Safiyya the night her husband was killed, as the Tommy Robinson clip claims?
Mufti Abu Layth says that Muslims who have not studied Islam should not debate far-right figures, and that the scenario the debater conceded, killing Safiyya's husband and father and taking her that night, can only be described as rape and is not what happened.
“so what do you mean where does it say that's rape that is not what happened why are you conceding to them why are you accepting this”
3:09TranscriptCite 2018-02-21b-S01corrected
· Who was Safiyya and why did the Muslims march on Khaybar?
Mufti Abu Layth says that nothing in Islamic history is concrete and that there is disagreement on everything, including whether Khaybar took place in 6 or 7 AH.
“let's get one point clear nothing is concrete in Islamic history this this difference is on everything”
5:46TranscriptCite 2018-02-21b-S02corrected
· What is the common story about how the Prophet married Safiyya?
Mufti Abu Layth says the circulating account that the Prophet had Safiyya's husband and father executed, took her from Dihya al-Kalbi for her beauty, offered her marriage or slavery and consummated the marriage that night is untrue.
“this this these narrations that I'm telling you now are not true but I'm telling you this is what people push this is the narrative”
9:40TranscriptCite 2018-02-21b-S03corrected
· Why do the hadith about Safiyya's marriage contradict each other?
Mufti Abu Layth holds that the narrations about Safiyya's marriage, almost all transmitted through Anas ibn Malik, conflict so heavily that none is reliable as it stands, though they contain truths distorted over a long chain of transmission by meaning.
“there is so much conflict and if there are what the hadith in call it there are is when narrations conflict so massively none of them are reliable”
12:11TranscriptCite 2018-02-21b-S04corrected
· Could the Prophet have married Safiyya right after Khaybar?
Mufti Abu Layth holds that the Prophet cannot have married Safiyya at Khaybar, since as a widow she owed the Quranic waiting period of four months and ten days, and that the companions' belief that he had married her rested on Anas's assumption from seeing her veiled and a feast held.
“first of all it is impossible that the Prophet married her then imposter why you asked me right he posted no evidence right okay why is it impossible because it clearly goes against the Quran”
19:29TranscriptCite 2018-02-21b-S05corrected
· Why did Safiyya ride with the Prophet on the way back from Khaybar?
Mufti Abu Layth holds that at Khaybar the Prophet freed Safiyya rather than marrying her, and that his having her ride with him, laying a cloth and offering his knee, and covering her with his cloak when the camel fell were acts of kindness to a woman being abused, not a marriage.
“some people held her as a captive they'd wanted to hold her as a captive the Prophet freed her he did not marry her he freed her”
27:21TranscriptCite 2018-02-21b-S07corrected
· Where did Safiyya live when she first came to Madinah?
Mufti Abu Layth holds that no nikah took place on the road from Khaybar, since Safiyya was in her waiting period and had not embraced Islam, that the feast Anas took for a wedding was a victory meal, and that in Madinah she lodged in another household and embraced Islam in the following months.
“this is an assumption this did not happen there was no nikka that took place it would have been Haram she was in her in there anyway”
30:54TranscriptCite 2018-02-21b-S08corrected
· When and how did Safiyya actually marry the Prophet?
Mufti Abu Layth holds that Safiyya embraced Islam in the months after Khaybar and then married the Prophet with her consent, and that Abu Hurayra's report that no spoils but clothing, cattle and sheep were taken from Khaybar tells against the story of captives and slaves.
“she does embrace Islam in time to come in the months that followed she does and then she herself is interested in the prophet and they do get married that is a fact”
32:45TranscriptCite 2018-02-21b-S09corrected
· How should Muslims judge hadith that say the Prophet took Safiyya on the night of Khaybar?
Mufti Abu Layth holds that conflicting historical hadith must be weighed against the Quran and the Prophet's character, that the story of Safiyya taken on the night of Khaybar fails both tests and amounts to a lie against the Prophet, and that Muslims who relay it are degrading his honour.
“hadith sometimes they conflict especially on historical accounts because these things didn't get documented two generations later so when it's something very important like this you have to weigh it up against the teachings of the Quran”
35:22TranscriptCite 2018-02-21b-S10corrected
· If the Safiyya story is in Sahih al-Bukhari, why question it?
Mufti Abu Layth holds that a report being in Sahih al-Bukhari does not settle the matter when Bukhari's own narrations of it conflict and rest on one companion's assumption, and that Muslims are not bound by earlier scholars' understanding, shaped by their age, when the Prophet's honour is at stake.
“we are not held to account by the understanding of people before us they were amazing legends they were great geniuses but their own culture their own age influence their perception”
41:11TranscriptCite 2018-02-21b-S11corrected
· Did the Prophet marry Safiyya on the same night she was captured?
Mufti Abu Layth says the claim that the Prophet took Safiyya and married her on the same night cannot stand, since as a Muslim she was bound by the waiting period, and even a single menstrual cycle could not have passed in one or two nights.
“she embraces Islam becomes goes through an it has a menstrual cycle then marries the Prophet all this in one night why are you trying so hard to prove this narrative”
4:23TranscriptCite 2018-02-28-S02corrected
· Do Muslim women have to wear the niqab?
Mufti Abu Layth says that, as far as religion is concerned, he does not consider the niqab to be part of the religion at all.
“in this part it becomes then a religious statement and as far as religion is concerned I do not consider the niqab to be at all part of the religion”
3:51TranscriptCite 2018-03-08b-S01corrected
· 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 was a marriage suggested to the Prophet after the year of sorrow?
Mufti Abu Layth says that the marriage was suggested by Khawla to support the Prophet after the year of sorrow, and that a wife could help him with the home and children, companionship, intimacy and his mission.
“so these aspects are well how a wife could have helped the Prophet at that time of tragedy”
9:38TranscriptCite 2018-11-30-S02corrected
· Did the Prophet marry his cousin?
Mufti Abu Layth says he believes that a person can get married without a wali.
“can one get married without a Wally I do believe I do believe that you can get married without a Willie and I've got a whole video detailed on that”
2:16TranscriptCite 2020-03-08-S01corrected
· Was Aisha really 48 when she married the Prophet?
Mufti Abu Layth says it is very clear that Aisha was probably between her very late teens and twenty when she married the Prophet, and by no means a child.
“she was probably anything between her very late teens to 20 anything between that she was around that kind of age she was not by any means a child”
53:27TranscriptCite 2020-07-14-S12corrected
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
· Was the ifk in Surat al-Nur really about Aisha?
Mufti Abu Layth says he definitely feels that the ifk mentioned in the Quran refers to an incident with Mariya, not the incident to do with Aisha.
“so what i definitely do feel is that the if mentioned in the quran is referring to an incident with maria radiola not the incident to do with aisha”
2:26:52TranscriptCite 2020-08-24-S34corrected
· Did the Prophet fall in love with Zaynab bint Jahsh?
Mufti Abu Layth says that many of the major early muhaddithun, including Malik, do not transmit the love story of the Prophet and Zaynab.
“In fact many of the major major early Muhadin do not transmit it. Malik doesn't transmit it.”
2:39:05TranscriptCite 2021-01-05-S34corrected
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