I have responded to @XGONDALX's reply to me. I accidentally deleted my thread so I decided to just turn my camera on & shoot a response: 1/
Long story short, @XGONDALX makes the tenuous claim that the ḥadīth we were discussing--"I will expel the Jews"--is mutawātir (mass-transmitted). He then spams his viewers to make this claim, making it clear to me that he doesn't even know what the word mutawātir means. 2/
Not only is his response about mutawātir-ness irrelevant to my initial argument -- which is why I am accusing him of being a bit intellectually dishonest & using a red herring -- but that claim is itself false, as I show in the video. 3/
Even worse, @XGONDALX uses munqaṭiʿ (broken) ḥadīths to justify his claim of mutawātir-ness! This is either intentionally misleading or it shows a general lack of knowledge of the very term & claim that he uses. Either way, it is not a good look! 4/
I suspect that @XGONDALX will have to fall back on the claim that the ḥadīth is mutawātir in meaning but not in wording. His own argumentation, however, would not seem to make sense in this regard... 5/
Of course, Islamic scholars can always try to claim that something is mutawātir in meaning... This is done for emphasis & to drive home a theological or legal point. But, even here, it would be difficult to claim, based on the fact that... 6/
...the only shared aspect in these reports is that some group (we don't know which!) was expelled from Arabia (we don't know what that includes!) by someone (we don't know who--was it the Prophet, ʿUmar I, or ʿUmar II???) 7/
None of this will help you establish that the Prophet Muḥammad himself actually ordered or did this, at least not from a secular historical perspective. This goes back to the point that you have not discussed, problematized, or questioned Munt's article at all.... 8/
in which he argues against your view that the Prophet actually ordered such an expulsion. This was the main point of my argument against you, yet you bypassed it altogether. 9/
I would kindly request you to be a bit more honest & transparent in your discussions with me, because we want to have meaningful dialogues in the future. It's OK to sometimes just say, "Ah I see, you have a point." That will be a respectable route to take instead of spamming. 10/
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