Is Jami 'Utbiyyah unauthentic?

Q: This video has ten reason why Jami 'Utbiyyah can not be trusted: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aAdPQkBtM2s&feature=youtu.be

A:The quotes on the 'Utbiyyah are pretty random and there is no substantial evidence brought forth. Just quoting scholars is the weakest type of argument.

There are plenty of quotes, which say the exact opposite:

قال الفقيه أبو الوليد ابن رشد – رحمه الله – في البيان والتحصيل 1/28-29 : ( ...على أنه كتاب قد عوّل عليه الشيوخ المتقدمون من القرويين والأندلسيين، واعتقدوا أن من لم يحفظه، ولا تفقه فيه كحفظه للمدونة وتفقهه فيها؛ بعد معرفة الأصول، وحفظه لسنن الرسول – صلى الله عليه وسلم – فليس من الراسخين في العلم، ولا من المعدودين فيمن يشار إليه من أهل الفقه).

العتبية من الأمهات الأربعة في المذهب المالكي، وهي من الكتب المعتمدة، قال الهلالي: «في أجوبة الشيخ ابن ناصر... : أمهات الفقه الكبار المعتمد عليها عند المالكية: المدونة والموازية والواضحة والعتبية» نور البصر (ص: 180)، وإن ضمت بعض الروايات المطروحة والمسائل الشاذة، إلا أنه لما شرحها ابن رشد في كتابه البيان والتحصيل، تكفل بصحتها، قال الهلالي: «يحتاج الآن الناظر فيها إلى البيان والتحصيل، وهو ببيان غثها من سمينها كفيل»نور البصر (ص: 191)، قال عبد الرحمن بن السالك: «لما شرحها ابن رشد تكفل بصحتها، وصارت معتمدة، وهي من كتب الأندلس المعتمدة عندهم». عون المحتسب فيما يعتمد من كتب المذهب (ص: 54).

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One source is “al-Maqāṣid al-ḥasanah fī bayān kathīr mina l-aḥādīthi l-mushtahirah 'alā l-alsinah” by Muḥammad ibn 'Abd ar-Raḥmān as-Sakhāwī (d. 902/1497). This source was also chosen by Hāfiẓ Muẓaffar Aḥmad Ṣaḥib in his “Usvah-i insan-i kāmil”.

The source that was chosen by the Faḍl-e 'Umar Foundation to be given in several volumes of “Anwaru l-'Ulūm” and “Khutbāt-e Maḥmūd” is “al-Asrār al-marfū'ah fī l-akhbāri l-mawḍū'ah”, also known as al-Mawḍū'āt al-kubrā or al-kabīr, by al-Mullā 'Alī al-Qārī (d. 1014/1606).

as-Sakhāwī and al-Qārī, as every scholar before them without exception, conclude that factually there is no proper source (aṣl) for this ḥadīth as such at all. Works that are named as so-called sources only list it, either saying that it is a quotation non-evidentially ascribed to the Holy Prophet (saw) or include it without any source citation whatsoever, let alone the mentioning of any transmitter (rāwī).

The sciences of ḥadīth, however, are, as is well known, divided into two main subdivisions, the science of transmission (ar-riwāyah) and the science of critical reflection (ad-dirāyah). The disconsidering of a narration in respect of its isnād (chain of transmission) does not inevitably discredit the narration as a whole. Many scholars, including as-Sakhāwī and al-Qārī have said “ma'nāhu ṣaḥīḥ“ regarding this narration, i.e. that its meaning is correct, and suchlike.

al-Imām Ibn Ḥajar al-'Asqalānī (d. 852/1449) in his “Fatḥu l-bārī bi-sharḥ Ṣaḥīḥi l-Bukhārī” writes, explaning this ḥadīth: 

http://sunnah.com/bukhari/26/28 

"وفي الحديث دلالة على فضل المدينة، وعلى مشروعية حب الوطن والحنين إليه"

“wa-fī l-ḥadīthi dalālatun 'alā faḍli l-madīnati wa-'ala mashrū'iyyati ḥubbi l-waṭani wa-l-ḥanīni ilayhi” 

“and in the ḥadīth there is an indication of the excellence of Medina and of the legitimacy of the love of one’s home country and the yearning for it”.

Indirectly, it can be concluded from the following two aḥādīth that the meaning of this saying is correct: 

al-Imām at-Tirmidhī (rh) tells of a ḥadīth in his Sunan, which he classifies as authentic (ḥasan ṣaḥīḥ):

عَنِ ابْنِ عَبَّاسٍ، قَالَ قَالَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ صلى الله عليه وسلم لِمَكَّةَ ‏ "‏ مَا أَطْيَبَكِ مِنْ بَلَدٍ وَأَحَبَّكِ إِلَىَّ وَلَوْلاَ أَنَّ قَوْمِي أَخْرَجُونِي مِنْكِ مَا سَكَنْتُ غَيْرَكِ ‏"

Ibn 'Abbās (ra) is reported to have said that the Holy Prophet (saw) said about Mecca:

"What a beautiful place you are and how dear you are to me! And if my people had not driven me from thee, I would not live anywhere but in thee". (Sunan at-Tirmidhī, Kitāb al-manāqib, Bāb fī faḍl Makkah, No. 3926)

al-Imām al-Bukhārī (rh) passed down in his Ṣaḥīḥ: 

عَنْ عَائِشَةَ ـ رضى الله عنها ـ قَالَتْ قَالَ النَّبِيُّ صلى الله عليه وسلم ‏ "‏ اللَّهُمَّ حَبِّبْ إِلَيْنَا الْمَدِينَةَ، كَمَا حَبَّبْتَ إِلَيْنَا مَكَّةَ أَوْ أَشَدَّ‏"‏‏.‏

 'Ā'ishah (ra) is reported to have said that the Holy Prophet (saw) said:

"O Allah! Make us love Madīnah, just as you make us love Makkah, or stronger!" 

(Ṣaḥīḥ al-Bukhārī, Kitāb ad-da'wāt, Bāb ad-du'ā' bi-raf' al-wabā' wa-l-waj')

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Weak ahadith can be used, but with extreme caution. The learned and trained students of knowledge should take care of that.\