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Click a year to jump to itLatest answer · 10 Mar 2023
10 Mar 2023video
LatestIs the Muwatta of Imam Malik more authentic than Sahih al-Bukhari?
The Muwatta, with Malik's 'golden chain', is arguably the most authentic book of hadith and predates al-Bukhari, though others do not rank it first.
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2021 · 13
14 Mar 2021video
What problems does Mufti Abu Layth find in the Sahih Muslim chains for Jesus's return?
The second Bukhari chain passes through Qutayba, who once concealed a known forger in a chain, and the Sahih Muslim chains pass through narrators faulted for lax or inaccurate transmission from al-Zuhri, notably Yunus ibn Yazid, with al-Zuhri himself recurring in each.
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14 Mar 2021video
Who are the problematic narrators in the Sahih Muslim reports on Jesus's return?
The Sahih Muslim chains include a narrator who suffered memory loss, a narrator who cannot be identified and could not have met Abu Hurayra, a major mudallis whose reports some critics discarded as fabrications, and Abu al-Zubayr, whom Abu Hatim did not consider reliable.
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2 Mar 2021Monday Nights with Mufti Abu Layth
What is wrong with the other Bukhari and Muslim chains on Jesus's return?
The second Bukhari chain passes through Qutayba, who once concealed a forger, and al-Zuhri; the Sahih Muslim chains include Harmala, Yunus ibn Yazid and others the critics faulted.
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2 Mar 2021Monday Nights with Mufti Abu Layth
Are the Sahih Muslim reports about Jesus's return reliable?
Further Sahih Muslim chains contain a narrator with memory loss, an unidentifiable narrator who could not have met Abu Hurayra, Ibn Jurayj, whom he calls a major mudallis, and Abu al-Zubayr.
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29 Jan 2021MindTrap with Mufti Abu Layth
Is the Musnad really Imam Ahmad's book, and is it authentic?
The guest says the Musnad is Imam Ahmad's draft but cannot be authentic by its own rules, since it reached us by wijada with additions by his son; Mufti Abu Layth holds that it was not Ahmad's book at all.
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29 Jan 2021MindTrap with Mufti Abu Layth
What is wijada, and why does it matter for the hadith on killing apostates?
The guest says the apostasy hadith cannot justify killing, since its own wording is not followed and it reaches us only by wijada; Mufti Abu Layth blames the Salafi call for putting raw hadith in place of the madhhabs.
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26 Jan 2021Monday Nights with Mufti Abu Layth
How did the BukhariGate discussion go on manuscripts and problematic hadith?
Mufti Abu Layth says the guest did not contest the manuscript evidence, and that defending the problematic reports amounts to claiming the Prophet could err but al-Bukhari could not.
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26 Jan 2021Monday Nights with Mufti Abu Layth
Is Mufti Abu Layth against Imam Bukhari?
No: he says he respects al-Bukhari as an outstanding hadith scholar, though not infallible, but holds that the book reaching us was altered in transmission, so troubling reports deserve caution.
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26 Jan 2021Monday Nights with Mufti Abu Layth
If a hadith is also in other books besides Bukhari, does that confirm it?
Not necessarily: he says transmitters and editors, often with good intentions, aligned names and texts with versions they knew, as Ahmad Shakir did in al-Muhalla, so parallel versions may not be independent.
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26 Jan 2021Monday Nights with Mufti Abu Layth
How could hadith chains and texts have been standardised over time?
Mufti Abu Layth says editors who standardised variant chains and texts, as Ahmad Shakir did with Ibn Jurayj's version, erased how reports were really transmitted, and that this may have happened unnoticed in the classical collections.
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26 Jan 2021Monday Nights with Mufti Abu Layth
Could the hadith tradition evolve like a living organism?
As food for thought, he suggests that the hadith system, like other belief systems, behaves like an evolving organism that drives people to standardise and preserve it.
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12 Jan 2021Monday Nights with Mufti Abu Layth
Will you critique Sahih Muslim like you did al-Bukhari?
Mufti Abu Layth chose al-Bukhari, not Muslim or others, because it is the symbol of the Salafi-Wahhabi legacy; that is the fortress he wanted to take on.
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5 Jan 2021Monday Nights with Mufti Abu Layth
Which hadith book is the most authentic?
Mufti Abu Layth takes each hadith on its merits rather than trusting one book; if anything, he would call Imam Malik's Muwatta the most authentic.
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2020 · 6
6 Dec 2020video
Why don't Sunni imams like Malik and Abu Hanifa transmit from Imam Jafar al-Sadiq?
Mufti Abu Layth's theory is that the early imams of the Ahl al-Bayt were for the most part as the Shia describe them, so Malik and Abu Hanifa, though respectful of them, did not transmit from them because it would have caused a political storm. He adds that this does not make the Shia theological claims more authentic.
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6 Dec 2020video
Did Imam Malik and Abu Hanifa study under Imam Jafar al-Sadiq, and what did they learn from him?
Malik and Abu Hanifa kept Imam Jafar's company and attended his circles but transmitted nothing from him, which Mufti Abu Layth explains by their disagreement with teaching that largely reflected the Shia da'wah. He calls the claim that they took only 'spirituality' from him absurd.
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26 Jun 2020MindTrap with Mufti Abu Layth
Was the hadith literature a conspiracy against the Quran?
The guest says the hadith corpus is a deliberate conspiracy against the Quran by its enemies, including the Umayyads, and that reports such as the Banu Qurayza massacre and the killing of a woman critic were fabricated to justify later rulers' crimes.
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19 Jun 2020MindTrap with Mufti Abu Layth
Did the Prophet leave a written Quran, and what did the caliphs really do?
At the Prophet's death the Quran lived in the community's recitation, teaching and notes; he deliberately left no official codex. The caliphs merely spread copies, and the guest says the Bukhari narratives about their compilation are weak in chain and content.
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19 Jun 2020MindTrap with Mufti Abu Layth
How did the earlier recitation and other readings get mixed up with the Quran?
The guest names four sources of the variant readings: remnants of the earlier revelatory sequence kept by the companions and later blurred with the Quran under al-Shafi'i's scholarly transmission, the mixing of similar passages, companions' explanatory synonyms taken as readings, and fabrication in the second and third centuries.
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22 Apr 2020MindTrap with Mufti Abu Layth
Is criticising Sahih al-Bukhari an attack on Imam al-Bukhari?
Imam al-Bukhari deserves credit for sifting hadith and his shorter narratives are usually the more authentic, but he was a human being and his book is not the Quran. Mufti Abu Layth says BukhariGate critiques the myth of an untouchable gold standard, not the man.
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2019 · 1
28 Sep 2019Ponderings on the Holy Quran
Why the Quran could not be corrupted like hadith, and the fashion for chains
Corrupting the Quran was next to impossible because it was recited en masse everywhere; hadith, written down a century later, were easy to fabricate, and chains for the Quran came later as a fashion.
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2018 · 8
1 Sep 2018BukhariGate: Issues with Sahih al-Bukhari
What is BukhariGate and why does Mufti Abu Layth say Sahih al-Bukhari is not reliable?
Sahih al-Bukhari cannot reliably be traced to its author because it reaches us through one transmitter, al-Farabri, whom nobody vouched for in his lifetime, and because transmission and memory reconstruct what they pass on. Mufti Abu Layth accepts hadith by the scholars' own standards, that a report not contradict reason, the Quran or an Islamic principle, while relying on the living tradition that Imam Malik called the Sunnah.
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30 Aug 2018BukhariGate: Issues with Sahih al-Bukhari
The third problem: can Bukhari be traced to its author? The bullet points
Sahih al-Bukhari cannot be traced to its author beyond reasonable doubt. It rests on one unvouched transmitter, his students admit an incomplete and altered copy, their copies disagree, and later editions needed correction.
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30 Aug 2018BukhariGate: Issues with Sahih al-Bukhari
Bukhari in his own chain, and the other students whose copies did not reach us
Sahih al-Bukhari reaches us through Farabri alone, although other students transmitted it. Nasafi's copy survives only in a summary of twelve hundred hadith, little of Hammad ibn Shakir's remains, Bazdawi's did not reach us, and Bukhari even appears in a chain in his own book.
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30 Aug 2018BukhariGate: Issues with Sahih al-Bukhari
Ibn Hajar and Ibn Rushayd on the transmissions: Farabri alone, found copies not taught
Ibn Hajar and Ibn Rushayd both record that Farabri's is the only transmission that reached later generations through teaching. Copies found centuries later cannot be taught from, so claims of independent connected transmissions are not honest.
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30 Aug 2018BukhariGate: Issues with Sahih al-Bukhari
Farabri's incomplete copy, the differing student copies and the manuscript patchwork
Farabri's copy was incomplete and rearranged, his students' copies differ in chains and hadith, and every later manuscript down to the Sultaniyya edition was a patchwork that needed correction.
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3 Aug 2018Responding to Refutations
Can Sahih al-Bukhari be proven to go back to Imam al-Bukhari?
Mufti Abu Layth says it cannot be proven beyond reasonable doubt: the printed Sultaniyya rests on the lost Yuniniyya, the copies disagree, al-Saghani's claimed copy of Farabri's text is unseen, and Farabri himself was vouched for only centuries later. He challenges his critics to prove otherwise.
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13 Mar 2018Islamic Eschatology
How could fabricated hadith have crept into mainstream Islam?
Fear of questioning drives the backlash; Mufti Abu Layth says the murder of Uthman, Karbala, the sack of Madinah and the catapulting of the Kaaba all happened within decades, long before hadith were documented, so corruption of reports was possible.
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13 Mar 2018Islamic Eschatology
Why hadith, not the Quran or fiqh, was corrupted: Umar ibn Abd al-Aziz, Zuhri and forged chains
Mufti Abu Layth holds that early opponents corrupted hadith, not the Quran or fiqh, in the century before chains were demanded; this is why Malik relied on inherited practice and treated isolated reports as information, not creed.
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