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Replies to attacks on the Prophet

23 segments in 15 recordings · 2018 to 2022 · 0 verified · 22 checked positions · history/sirah/defending-the-prophet · Feed

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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Latest answer · 19 Aug 2022

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 · 2

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 Should loyalty to a scholar ever come before the honour of the Prophet? No: he says loyalty belongs first to the Prophet, so a report that disparages him must be rejected whoever accepted it, citing Imam Malik's maxim that everyone's words can be accepted or rejected except the Prophet's. Lessonposition checkedal-SuyutiIbn Hajar al-AsqalaniIbn TaymiyyaImam Malik machine5 min 21 s1:47:24on YouTube

2021 · 3

19 Apr 2021video Why do Mufti Abu Layth's critics defend Bukhari reports that demean the Prophet? Critics who defend Bukhari reports Mufti Abu Layth regards as insulting to the Prophet, such as marrying a child, forcing Safiyya, forgetting the Quran or being made impotent by magic, cannot claim to love the Prophet. Mariya al-Qibtiyya was a wife, not a concubine, and the critics' real concern is a fantasy caliphate and power. Lessonposition checkedFarid [?]Asim Qureshi [?]Sahih al-BukhariSafiyya machine8 min 01 s0:04on YouTube
16 Feb 2021Monday Nights with Mufti Abu Layth Did the Prophet order a scribe killed for leaving Islam? Not for apostasy, he says: the scribe was not executed, and the issue was treason, since he exposed Madinah's weak points to its enemies; apostasy laws were treason laws. Question from live chatposition checkedAbdullah ibn Sa'd ibn Abi Sarh [?]the Battle of the Trench (al-Ahzab)riddah (apostasy) machine2 min 33 s1:11:59on YouTube
5 Jan 2021Monday Nights with Mufti Abu Layth Did the Prophet fall in love with Zaynab bint Jahsh? No: he says the early hadith collections do not carry the love story, and it makes no sense given the Prophet had known Zaynab all his life. Lessonposition checkedYasir QadhiZaynab bint JahshZayd ibn HarithaImam Malik machine7 min2:38:27on YouTube

2020 · 4

22 Sep 2020Monday Nights with Mufti Abu Layth Are there enemies of Islam today? Mufti Abu Layth says some people do hate Islam, but criticising or leaving Islam is not the same as hating it, and he will not engage those driven by hatred. Question from live chatposition checkedJay SmithIsa (Jesus) machine7 min 02 s58:35on YouTube
22 Sep 2020Monday Nights with Mufti Abu Layth Did Patricia Crone accept that the Prophet Muhammad existed? Mufti Abu Layth agrees with Patricia Crone that the Prophet's existence is certain, since sources document him from his last year or just after. Question from live chatposition checkedPatricia Crone machine1 min 09 s1:17:16on YouTube
14 Jul 2020live stream Did the Prophet Muhammad ever kill anyone himself? Mufti Abu Layth is not aware of such a killing and doubts the usual example, though it may have happened in battle; the Prophet's battles were all defensive in essence. Question from live chatposition checkedreport: man yamnauka minni (who will protect you from me)battles of the Prophet machine1 min 53 s40:56on YouTube
7 Apr 2020video Does the Mufti teach disrespect for the Prophet? No: he says he has repeatedly defended the Prophet, denying that he married a child and rejecting narrations he finds insulting. Those accusing him took none of these stances. Discussionposition checkedAishareport: magic was done on the prophet and he became impotentreport: musa ran naked so that people could see he had no herniaMusa (Moses) machine4 min 27 s8:19on YouTube

2019 · 1

19 Sep 2019Responding to Refutations How old was Aisha when she married the Prophet? Mufti Abu Layth says the report that Aisha was six or nine is false and that she was in her late teens, about seventeen to nineteen. Promoting the child-marriage story and then taking offence at the charge of paedophilia is irresponsible. Discussionposition checkedAishaAsma bint Abi BakrAbdullah ibn Umarjariyah (girl approaching adolescence) machine4 min 27 s2:30on YouTube

2018 · 12

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 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 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
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
28 Feb 2018Responding to Refutations Did the Prophet marry Safiyya on the same night she was captured? No: Mufti Abu Layth says Safiyya was a Muslim when the Prophet married her and so had to observe a waiting period, which rules out a marriage on the night of her capture. Lessonposition checkedSafiyyaiddah (waiting period) machine2 min 38 s2:28on 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
21 Feb 2018On the Prophet Muhammad ﷺ Did the Prophet take Safiyya the night her husband was killed, as the Tommy Robinson clip claims? No: Mufti Abu Layth says the story conceded by the Muslim debater is false and that, as described, it would be rape, so conceding it and arguing over the word is indefensible. Muslims who have not studied Islamic history should not debate these subjects. Lessonposition checkedSafiyyaTommy RobinsonAisha machine5 min 12 s0:00on YouTube
21 Feb 2018On the Prophet Muhammad ﷺ What is the common story about how the Prophet married Safiyya? The circulated story is that after Khaybar the Prophet executed Safiyya's husband and father, took her from Dihya al-Kalbi for her beauty, gave her the choice of slavery or marriage and consummated it that night. Mufti Abu Layth says every part of this is false. Lessonposition checkedSafiyyaKinana ibn al-Rabi' [?] (Safiyya's husband)Huyayy ibn AkhtabDihya al-Kalbi machine2 min 31 s9:06on YouTube
21 Feb 2018On the Prophet Muhammad ﷺ How should Muslims judge hadith that say the Prophet took Safiyya on the night of Khaybar? Weigh them against the Quran and the Prophet's character: the story contradicts the widow's waiting period, the verse on no compulsion and everything known of his conduct, and all its versions come from one conflicting source. Mufti Abu Layth says relaying it is a lie against the Prophet and the picture it draws is rape. Lessonposition checkedSafiyyaQuran 2:256 (there is no compulsion in religion)Quran 2:234 (widows wait four months and ten days)The Quran takes precedence over an isolated hadith machine5 min 12 s35:13on 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
9 Feb 2018On the Prophet Muhammad ﷺ How old was Aisha when she married the Prophet? Mufti Abu Layth holds that the evidence shows Aisha married in her late teens, and warns that reports of a child marriage feed Islamophobes. Discussionposition checkedTommy RobinsonAishaBarelviSalafi machine2 min 30 s26:22on YouTube