An introduction to Mufti Abu Layth. In this video, Mufti Abu Layth answers a number of questions ranging from islamic knowledge to questions on personal experiences.
(This was filmed 2nd July 2014)
Enjoy!
Questions:
1. Who are you?
2. Why did you choose to study?
3. When did you decide you wanted to become a Mufti?
4. Why the Maliki madh'hab?
5. Favourite Islamic science and why?
6. What's the hype with Islamic Spain?
7. Is difference in Islam a mercy?
8. Do the attacks on your appearance bother you?
9. A message to those who attack you?
10. What does the future hold for MALM?
Biography:
Mufti Abu Layth al-Maliki resides with his family in B'ham, UK. He carried out preliminary Arabic and Islamic Studies as a teenager in the UK before going to Damascus, Syria, where he adopted the Maliki madhhab and studied the essential elementary sciences of Islam. He then went on to memorise the Qur'an along with Tafsir at the Jami`ah Muhammadiyyah Institute in Islamabad, Pakistan.
Mufti Abu Layth returned to Syria to recite the entire Qur'an to Shaykh `Abdu'l-Haadi at-Tabbaa' (ra) and was authorised to teach with an ijazah and chain of transmission (isnad) going back to the Messenger of Allah (SAW).
After gaining his ijazah, the Mufti completed the (Dars-e-Nizami) Alim Course at the renowned Jami`ah Binnoria in Karachi, Pakistan, where he graduated first class in various Islamic Sciences ranging from Tafsir, Hadith, Usul, Comparative Fiqh, Arabic Literature, Arabic Grammar, history and Aqidah. In his final year (Dawrah Hadith) he studied and completed the major books of Hadith (Muwatta, Bukhari, Muslim, Tarmidhi,Abu Dawud, Nasai, Ibn Majah & Sharh Ma'ani aathar)and was authorised to teach them with an unbroken chain to their authors.
Mufti Abu Layth then completed the Mufti Course (a 2 yr training course in how to issue Fatwa) at the same institute specialising further in Fiqh across the various madhhabs. His training was under the supervision of various renomwed scholars including Mufti Abdullah Shoukat (who is a key student of Mufti Taqi Usmani) for Hanafi Fiqh, and Mufti Salim Al-Tunisi (A Maliki Mufti resident in Jamia Binnoria). Amongst the texts studied were:
Mudawwanah (Sahnun)
Rad alMuhtar (ibn Aabidin)
Mawahib lJalil (Hattab)
Fawakih Dwaani (Nafrawi)
Muwafaqaat (Shaatibi)
Since his return to the UK, he has completed his Masters degree (M.Ed), he then went on to complete a degree in Psychology (B.Sc).
Mufti has since been involved in various projects:
Teaching Fiqh, Arabic & other courses in person and online weekly.
A weekly radio show (Unityfm) on relationships:
'Monday Nights with Mufti'
Launching The Islamic Coucil UK (ICUK) in collaboration with other scholars where matters of Nikah, Divorce or counselling therapy is offered.
Designing Islamic History tours of alAndalus (to be launched soon)
Mufti Abu Layth also pays great interest in visiting the gym.
We ask Allah (SWT) to bless us all and accept our humble efforts. Ameen
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