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Reports that disrespect the Prophet

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Most recent statement · 19 Aug 2022What are the satanic verses in Islamic history?Older segments link here so no earlier explanation is read as the last word.

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19 Aug 2022video LatestWhat are the satanic verses in Islamic history? Mufti Abu Layth explains that the Prophet's recitation of Surah al-Najm and the prostration of everyone present are documented, but that the added story of him praising the three goddesses is false. Lessonposition checkedQuran 53:1-4 (by the star; your companion has not strayed, nor does he speak from desire)Quran 53:19-20 (al-Lat, al-Uzza and Manat)report: the prophet recited surat al-najm and prostrated and everyone present prostrated muslims and mushrikin (unresolved; Sahih al-Bukhari and Sahih Muslim, number not stated)report: tilka al-gharaniq al-ula wa inna shafaatahunna laturtaja (the alleged satanic verses [?]; called false by the host) machine8 min 45 s1:00:37on YouTube

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2022 · 6

19 Aug 2022video LatestIs Quran 22:52 about the satanic verses incident? No: he rejects the link to 22:52, noting that Surah al-Hajj is Madinan, that the Prophet refused the Makkans' offers of compromise, and that the Quran calls the idols mere stone. Lessonposition checkedQuran 22:52 (Satan cast into the prophet's wish, then God annulled it)report: tilka al-gharaniq al-ula wa inna shafaatahunna laturtaja (the alleged satanic verses [?]; called false by the host) machine5 min 18 s1:09:22on YouTube
19 Aug 2022video LatestWhat did the classical Maliki scholars say about the satanic verses story? Mufti Abu Layth says the Maliki scholars, Abu Bakr ibn al-Arabi and Qadi Iyad among them, rejected the story as fabricated, and that al-Tabari records the narrations but concludes they are false. Lessonposition checkedQadi Abu Bakr ibn al-Arabial-TabariTafsir al-TabariQadi Iyad machine4 min1:14:40on YouTube
19 Aug 2022video Why did Ibn Hajar say the satanic verses story has some basis? Mufti Abu Layth says Ibn Hajar wrongly argued that the many weak chains give the story a basis, and attributes the mistake to passion for the hadith project rather than malice. Lessonposition checkedIbn Hajar al-AsqalaniFath al-BariIbn al-SalahQadi Iyad machine7 min 49 s1:18:40on YouTube
19 Aug 2022video What does the Quran say against the satanic verses story? Mufti Abu Layth says al-Suyuti repeated Ibn Hajar's mistake, while the Quran rules the story out: the Prophet does not speak from desire and Satan has no power to speak in his voice. Lessonposition checkedal-SuyutiIbn Hajar al-Asqalanial-Tabarireport: the water of zamzam is for whatever it is drunk for (unresolved; collection not stated) machine7 min 51 s1:26:29on YouTube
19 Aug 2022video LatestWhich scholars accepted the satanic verses story and which rejected it? Mufti Abu Layth says al-Albani and Ibn Khuzayma rejected the story as a fabrication, while Ibn Taymiyya, Muhammad ibn Abd al-Wahhab and Ibn Hajar leaned towards giving it some basis. Lessonposition checkedal-AlbaniNasb al-Majaniq li-Nasf Qissat al-Gharaniq [?]Qadi IyadQadi Abu Bakr ibn al-Arabi machine7 min 50 s1:34:20on YouTube
19 Aug 2022video Recap: the novel, insult versus critique, and the false story summarised Mufti Abu Layth recaps that Rushdie's novel was an insult rather than a critique and that the satanic verses story is a fabrication rejected by al-Tabari, Ibn Khuzayma and Qadi Iyad, recommending al-Shifa and al-Albani's book. LessonSalman RushdieIbn Rushd (Averroes)The Satanic Verses (novel)Quran 22:52 (Satan cast into the prophet's wish, then God annulled it) machine6 min 09 s1:52:45on YouTube

2021 · 2

6 Apr 2021Monday Nights with Mufti Abu Layth LatestDid the Prophet really spy on a boy he thought was the Dajjal? The Ibn Sayyad and Dajjal reports are absurd and insult the Prophet's dignity, and their contradictory accounts of who and where the Dajjal is show they are not revelation. Lessonposition checkedDajjalIbn Sayyadreport: the prophet hid behind palm trees to overhear ibn sayyad and his mother warned him (sahih muslim with a variant in bukhari, number not stated)report: ibn sayyad swelled with anger until he filled the street (sahih muslim, number not stated) machine12 min 36 s2:30:54on YouTube
2 Feb 2021Monday Nights with Mufti Abu Layth Is rejecting embarrassing hadith about the Prophet just whitewashing history? Mufti Abu Layth says the 'they would not invent it' argument is cogent at face value, but a fair critic must also ask who had a motive to fabricate a report. Question from live chatposition checkedAishaneo-traditionalism machine6 min 11 s32:00on YouTube

2020 · 1

26 Jun 2020MindTrap with Mufti Abu Layth Are any hadith genuine, and what about reports confirmed by history? The guest says even genuine sayings of the Prophet are not religion and that the hadith paint contradictory portraits of him. Mufti Abu Layth agrees that the Mi'raj negotiation, the child-marriage report and the Uraynah torture reports are false narrations. Discussionguest speechEdip YukselQuran 25:30 (my people have deserted this Quran)the Isra and Mi'rajreport: the prophet negotiated the number of prayers from fifty to five on the night journey on the advice of moses machine7 min 57 s41:00on YouTube

2019 · 1

24 May 2019Hadith Studies If I drank alcohol, are my prayers and fasts rejected for 40 days? No: the fast and prayer are valid. He calls the forty-days hadith an isolated, weak report that clashes with the Quran and reason, though alcohol stays haram. Question source not recordedposition checkedreport: man shariba al-khamr lam tuqbal lahu salat arbain sabahanalcohol (khamr)khabar al-ahad (isolated reports)Sunan Ibn Majah machine10 min 57 s0:38on YouTube

2018 · 18

17 Sep 2018On the Prophet Muhammad ﷺ Was the Prophet Muhammad poisoned, and did he die from it? No: Mufti Abu Layth says the Prophet did not die of poisoning. The report in Bukhari that he felt the poison cutting his aorta in his final illness is, in his view, a fabricated story that contradicts itself and fails on its chain. Question source not recordedposition checkedSahih al-Bukhari 4428 (I still feel the pain of the food I ate; the poison cutting my aorta)Sahih al-BukhariSahih MuslimSunan Abi Dawud machine3 min 25 s0:01on YouTube
17 Sep 2018On the Prophet Muhammad ﷺ Is the chain of the hadith that the Prophet died of poison reliable? Mufti Abu Layth finds the chains unacceptable: the Bukhari version runs through Yunus, whom early critics faulted for his memory, and through al-Zuhri, who does not state that he heard it, while the Abu Dawud version has a narrator criticised for mistakes. Lessonposition checkedSahih al-Bukhari 4428 (I still feel the pain of the food I ate; the poison cutting my aorta)Yunus ibn Yazid al-Ayli [?]Ibn Shihab al-ZuhriAbu Zur'a machine3 min 23 s3:26on YouTube
17 Sep 2018On the Prophet Muhammad ﷺ How can the same poison kill one companion at once and the Prophet three years later? The story contradicts itself: the companion who ate the food died at once, so the same poison cannot have killed the Prophet three years later, and the Prophet in Muslim's version says Allah would not let the woman do it. Lessonposition checkedBishr ibn al-Bara' [?]the battle of Khaybar [?] (the name is garbled in the transcript)report: the woman who poisoned the food said if you were a prophet you would find out and the prophet said allah would not let you do thatSahih Muslim machine3 min 42 s6:49on YouTube
17 Sep 2018On the Prophet Muhammad ﷺ Does the hadith that the Prophet died of poison contradict the Quran? Yes, in Mufti Abu Layth's view: the Quran promises that Allah will protect the Prophet from the people, and it describes cutting the aorta as the punishment for one who forges revelation, so a report that the Prophet died that way humiliates him. Lessonposition checkedQuran 5:67 (Allah will protect you from the people; verse not numbered by him) [?]Quran 69:44-46 (had he invented sayings against Us, We would have seized him and cut his aorta; he cites verses 44 to 46 without naming the surah)report: whoever eats such dates will not be harmed by poison or magic machine2 min 16 s10:31on YouTube
17 Sep 2018On the Prophet Muhammad ﷺ Why should Muslims reject the hadith that the Prophet died of poison? Following Imam Malik, a hadith that contradicts the overall message of the Quran is set aside; Mufti Abu Layth rules the poisoning report false on chain and content and says that calling the Prophet's death a poisoning insults Islam, God and the Prophet. Lessonposition checkedImam MalikAbu HanifaIbn Shihab al-ZuhriYunus ibn Yazid al-Ayli [?] machine6 min 04 s12:47on YouTube
1 Sep 2018BukhariGate: Issues with Sahih al-Bukhari Does Sahih al-Bukhari say the Prophet forgot verses of the Quran and that there was a verse of stoning? Two Bukhari reports have the Prophet forgetting a verse of the Quran and Umar speaking of a verse of stoning that they used to recite. Mufti Abu Layth says there is no such verse, that this disrespects Umar and the Prophet, and that it implies the Quran has changed. Lessonposition checkedSahih al-Bukhari 2655 (he reminded me of a verse I had forgotten)Sahih al-Bukhari 6830 (Umar's speech on the verse of stoning)Sahih al-BukhariUmar ibn al-Khattab machine5 min 13 s5:10on YouTube
1 Sep 2018BukhariGate: Issues with Sahih al-Bukhari What does Mufti Abu Layth say about the Bukhari report of the Prophet falling unconscious when he uncovered himself? The Bukhari report that the Prophet removed his izar while carrying stones for the Kaaba, fell unconscious and was never seen naked again is, in Mufti Abu Layth's words, nonsense that disrespects the Prophet, and he dismisses the scholars' attempts to soften it. Lessonposition checkedSahih al-Bukhari 364 (carrying stones for the Kaaba with the izar on his shoulders)Sahih al-Bukharial-Abbas ibn Abd al-Muttalibizar machine2 min 39 s10:23on YouTube
1 Sep 2018BukhariGate: Issues with Sahih al-Bukhari What is the Bukhari report about the Prophet seeing a woman beside Umar's palace in paradise? The Bukhari report in which the Prophet sees a woman beside Umar's palace in paradise and turns away because of Umar's jealousy casts the Prophet in a poor light, Mufti Abu Layth says. Lessonposition checkedSahih al-Bukhari 3242 (the woman beside Umar's palace in paradise) [?]Sahih al-BukhariAbu HurayraUmar ibn al-Khattab machine2 min 36 s13:02on YouTube
1 Sep 2018BukhariGate: Issues with Sahih al-Bukhari Does Sahih al-Bukhari say the Prophet pointed to Aisha's house as the source of fitna? The Bukhari report in which the Prophet points to Aisha's house and says the fitna and the horn of Shaytan will rise there is, Mufti Abu Layth says, disrespectful to the Prophet and to Aisha, and Muslims should question what they pass off as authentic. Lessonposition checkedSahih al-Bukhari 3104 (the fitna is here, pointing to Aisha's house)Sahih al-BukhariAishaNafi' machine1 min 20 s28:43on YouTube
1 Sep 2018BukhariGate: Issues with Sahih al-Bukhari Why does Mufti Abu Layth say BukhariGate matters? BukhariGate matters because the whole of Sahih al-Bukhari rests on one transmitter, al-Farabri, and because the reports in it repay the Prophet and his companions with disrespect. Mufti Abu Layth attributes their circulation to Wahhabis and their sympathisers, whom he condemns in strong terms. Lessonposition checkedSahih al-Bukhari 137 as cited (the Prophet slept until he could be heard breathing deeply and prayed without wudu) [?]Sahih al-BukhariMuhammad ibn Yusuf al-FarabriUmar ibn al-Khattab machine2 min 38 s30:03on YouTube
3 Aug 2018Responding to Refutations Why does Mufti Abu Layth call the Sunni Defence channel blasphemous? Mufti Abu Layth says the group's own words, asking what is wrong with the Prophet being sexually impotent and defending the report of Musa running naked, are blasphemous. That, he says, is why he described them as he did. LessonSunni Defence (YouTube channel)Farid [?]Salafi (Wahhabi)Sahih al-Bukhari machine3 min 50 s0:00on YouTube
4 May 2018Clarifying False Hadith Which Insult Islam Would the Prophet really call a woman wearing perfume a fornicator? No: Mufti Abu Layth says calling a woman a fornicator is the crime of qadhf under Quran 24:4, punished by the Malikis whatever the intention, and the Prophet was never obscene, so the report insults him. Lessonposition checkedQuran 24:4 (those who accuse chaste women without four witnesses)Quran 68:4 (you are of a great character) [?]report: ayyuma imraatin istatarat fa marrat ala qawmin li yajidu rihaha fa hiya zaniyareport: lam yakun al-nabi fahishan wa la sabbaban wa la laanan (Anas, in al-Bukhari, number not stated) machine9 min 15 s10:32on YouTube
15 Apr 2018Debunking Myths On: Jinns, Magic, the Evil Eye, and Superstitions Was magic done on the Prophet? Why he rejects the report Mufti Abu Layth rejects the report that the Prophet was bewitched, even though it is in al-Bukhari, as an insult to the Prophet that clashes with the Quran. Lessonposition checkedthe HijrahAbdullah ibn al-Zubayr [?]tawhidreport: magic was done on the prophet and he became impotent machine9 min 40 s15:23on YouTube
21 Feb 2018Responding to Refutations What does he say to critics who accept that the Prophet was impotent, married a nine-year-old or was bewitched into clumsiness? Mufti Abu Layth says these claims are untrue attacks on the Prophet's honour, resting on reports whose chains he has shown to be defective, and that critics who affirm them to win an argument are themselves being blasphemous. He adds that he does not support capital punishment for such speech. Lessonposition checkedSunni Defence (YouTube channel)Qadi Iyadahl al-hadith mentality [?]consent machine6 min 14 s42:14on YouTube
13 Feb 2018Debunking Myths On: Jinns, Magic, the Evil Eye, and Superstitions Did someone really do magic on the Prophet? No: he calls the report of magic on the Prophet falsely attributed and an affront to his honour, and says the Quls were revealed years earlier in Makkah. Lessonposition checkedQuran 112 (Surat al-Ikhlas)Quran 113:1-5 (Surat al-Falaq)Quran 114 (Surat al-Nas)Quran 113:4 (from the evil of those who blow on knots) machine3 min 44 s6:50on YouTube
9 Feb 2018On the Prophet Muhammad ﷺ Viral claims that Mufti Abu Layth insulted the companions Mufti Abu Layth explains that he called the crying-tree reports unestablished, and only suggested that, if accepted, some companions exaggerated out of love; that is not blasphemy. Discussionreport: the tree crying for the prophet machine4 min 30 s0:00on YouTube
9 Feb 2018On the Prophet Muhammad ﷺ Is the hadith of the crying tree trunk authentic? No: Mufti Abu Layth finds weak narrators in each chain, including those in al-Bukhari, and says only the Quran is preserved in its entirety. Lessonposition checkedreport: the tree crying for the prophetminbarJabir ibn AbdullahAnas ibn Malik machine8 min 52 s7:38on YouTube
9 Feb 2018On the Prophet Muhammad ﷺ Are some hadith about the Prophet actually blasphemous? Yes: Mufti Abu Layth says reports that the Prophet married a nine-year-old, was bewitched or became impotent are the real blasphemy, and urges scholars to denounce them. Discussionposition checkedreport: married her when she was six and consummated the marriage when she was ninereport: magic was done on the prophet and he became impotentreport: musa ran naked so that people could see he had no herniareport: the prophet sent ali to kill a man accused with mariya and he was found to have no penis machine7 min 41 s18:41on YouTube