Mufti Abu Layth Archive: hadith/false-and-fabricated/about-women

Did the Prophet say a wife should prostrate to her husband?

Tue, 06 Apr 2021 00:00:00 +0000

Did the Prophet say a wife should prostrate to her husband?

The report is not authentic: it was probably put into circulation to support the family hierarchy of a patriarchal society. The report urging violent jealousy over female relatives is likewise fabricated. Mufti Abu Layth says the report that the Prophet would have ordered wives to prostrate to their husbands is not authentic and was probably circulated to support the family hierarchy of a patriarchal society, and that the report urging violent jealousy over female relatives is likewise fabricated.

Answer from 6 April 2021 · auto-transcribed, may contain errors

Kind: general teaching

Recording: Monday Nights with Mufti #209 | Q&A Unscripted & Unrestricted! 😉 | Mufti Abu Layth (at 49:54)

A more recent answer on society/women-and-gender exists (10 March 2023): Who carried on Imam Malik's teaching after him?

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Was Aisha a feminist?

Tue, 04 Aug 2020 00:00:00 +0000

Was Aisha a feminist?

Yes, if a feminist means someone who stands up for women's rights, says Mufti Abu Layth; Aisha did, including by rejecting misattributed hadith. Mufti Abu Layth says Aisha unquestionably stood up for women's rights.

Answer from 4 August 2020 · auto-transcribed, may contain errors

Kind: general teaching

Recording: Monday Nights with Mufti Abu Layth #176 *Q&A Unscripted & Unrestricted!* 🤣 (at 36:32)

A more recent answer on society/women-and-gender exists (10 March 2023): Who carried on Imam Malik's teaching after him?

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How should hadith be evaluated, and did the companions ever misreport the Prophet?

Wed, 22 Apr 2020 00:00:00 +0000

How should hadith be evaluated, and did the companions ever misreport the Prophet?

Hadith should be judged one by one against the principles of the religion, observation and reason, as the earliest Muslims did before reason was sidelined. Aisha herself rejected several companions' reports, such as the dog, woman and donkey breaking the prayer, the dead punished by weeping, and the bad omen in a woman, showing how reports were misrelayed.

Answer from 22 April 2020 · auto-transcribed, may contain errors

Kind: quoted view (stated in order to be discussed, not necessarily held)

Recording: Shaykh Dr. Shabir Ally | Juxtaposing the Quran, Jumbling Aisha's age & Jinn Possession | MindTrap#16 (at 1:05:05)

A more recent answer on dialogue/guest-conversations exists (18 October 2025): How should Muslims engage people with very different views of the religion?

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Is it a Sunnah for women to pray in a wardrobe or the innermost room?

Fri, 17 Jan 2020 00:00:00 +0000

Is it a Sunnah for women to pray in a wardrobe or the innermost room?

The claim that women praying in a wardrobe is a Sunnah rests on a weak, indeed false, hadith that is not a saying of the Prophet. Mufti Abu Layth sees the following of such claims as dogma and herd mentality. Mufti Abu Layth says the report used to call women praying in a wardrobe a Sunnah is a weak and in fact false hadith, not a saying of the Prophet.

Answer from 17 January 2020 · auto-transcribed, may contain errors

Kind: general teaching

Recording: Reply to Daniel Haqiqatjou on Mufti Menk | Mufti Abu Layth (at 5:05)

A more recent answer on dialogue/views-on-contemporary-scholars exists (22 February 2023): Should scholars publicly condemn a scholar said to have joined in a libation ritual?

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Is the hadith about women praying in the darkest part of the house authentic?

Sat, 04 May 2019 00:00:00 +0000

Is the hadith about women praying in the darkest part of the house authentic?

No: the chains run through unknown, abandoned or weak narrators, so the reports are fabricated or very weak and clash with the sahih hadith. Mufti Abu Layth says the narrations about a woman praying in the darkest part of her house are either fabricated or very weak.

Answer from 4 May 2019 · auto-transcribed, may contain errors

Kind: general teaching

Recording: Daniel Haqiqatjou and Women praying in the Wardrobe -Mufti Abu Layth (at 23:22)

A more recent answer on hadith/authentication/narrator-criticism exists (19 April 2023): Why does the practice of Madinah matter more than a single hadith?

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Is it better for women to pray at home than in the mosque?

Sat, 04 May 2019 00:00:00 +0000

Is it better for women to pray at home than in the mosque?

No: sahih hadith show women regularly praying in the Prophet's mosque, the Prophet forbade stopping them, and Umar and Ali provided imams for them. Mufti Abu Layth says the reports placing a woman's prayer at home above the Prophet's mosque go against the sahih hadith of women attending the mosque.

Answer from 4 May 2019 · auto-transcribed, may contain errors

Kind: general teaching

Recording: Daniel Haqiqatjou and Women praying in the Wardrobe -Mufti Abu Layth (at 15:11)

A more recent answer on hadith/false-and-fabricated/about-women exists (6 April 2021): Did the Prophet say a wife should prostrate to her husband?

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Are the chains of the 'women lack intellect' hadith sound?

Sun, 29 Jul 2018 00:00:00 +0000

Are the chains of the 'women lack intellect' hadith sound?

Not unquestionably: Mufti Abu Layth says every chain, in al-Bukhari, Muslim and elsewhere, has a weak or disputed link, too little to override the Quran. Mufti Abu Layth says all the chains of the report have some problem, so it is not unquestionably sound.

Answer from 29 July 2018 · auto-transcribed, may contain errors

Kind: general teaching

Recording: Hadith Analysis: Did the Prophet ﷺ Refer to Women as Lacking Intellect and Faith? (at 30:42)

A more recent answer on hadith/bukhari exists (18 October 2025): Why did Mufti Abu Layth challenge hadith in BukhariGate, and can the Prophet be called the most beloved of creation?

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Is not praying during menstruation a sign of weak faith?

Sun, 29 Jul 2018 00:00:00 +0000

Is not praying during menstruation a sign of weak faith?

No: Mufti Abu Layth says women refrain from prayer during menstruation because the religion told them to, so calling it a lack of faith is absurd and the report is a misattribution. Mufti Abu Layth says it is absurd to say women lack faith for not praying while menstruating, when the religion itself told them not to pray.

Answer from 29 July 2018 · auto-transcribed, may contain errors

Kind: general teaching

Recording: Hadith Analysis: Did the Prophet ﷺ Refer to Women as Lacking Intellect and Faith? (at 23:44)

A more recent answer on society/women-and-gender exists (10 March 2023): Who carried on Imam Malik's teaching after him?

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Do women really curse more than men, as the hadith says?

Sun, 29 Jul 2018 00:00:00 +0000

Do women really curse more than men, as the hadith says?

No: Mufti Abu Layth says men swear more than women across cultures and ingratitude is shared by both, so the report's reasons are factual errors. Mufti Abu Layth says the report contains a factual error, since men always outperform women in swearing in every culture.

Answer from 29 July 2018 · auto-transcribed, may contain errors

Kind: general teaching

Recording: Hadith Analysis: Did the Prophet ﷺ Refer to Women as Lacking Intellect and Faith? (at 16:41)

A more recent answer on hadith/authentication/text-criticism-and-reason exists (19 August 2022): What does the Quran say against the satanic verses story?

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Why do the versions of the 'women in hell' hadith contradict each other?

Sun, 29 Jul 2018 00:00:00 +0000

Why do the versions of the 'women in hell' hadith contradict each other?

Mufti Abu Layth says the versions disagree on which Eid it was and whether the women were addressed privately, so the male narrators heard it second-hand from someone unknown. Mufti Abu Layth says the narrations show turbulence, since the narrators could not say on which of the two Eids the address took place.

Answer from 29 July 2018 · auto-transcribed, may contain errors

Kind: general teaching

Recording: Hadith Analysis: Did the Prophet ﷺ Refer to Women as Lacking Intellect and Faith? (at 12:53)

A more recent answer on hadith/authentication/text-criticism-and-reason exists (19 August 2022): What does the Quran say against the satanic verses story?

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Does the Quran say most people in hell are women?

Sun, 29 Jul 2018 00:00:00 +0000

Does the Quran say most people in hell are women?

No: Mufti Abu Layth says the Quran speaks of mankind as a whole, all created weak, and never divides the people of hell by gender, so the report clashes with it. Mufti Abu Layth says the Quran never makes a gender differentiation regarding the people of hell, so the report goes against it.

Answer from 29 July 2018 · auto-transcribed, may contain errors

Kind: general teaching

Recording: Hadith Analysis: Did the Prophet ﷺ Refer to Women as Lacking Intellect and Faith? (at 6:30)

A more recent answer on society/women-and-gender exists (10 March 2023): Who carried on Imam Malik's teaching after him?

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Did the Prophet say women lack intellect and faith?

Sun, 29 Jul 2018 00:00:00 +0000

Did the Prophet say women lack intellect and faith?

No: Mufti Abu Layth says the report, though in al-Bukhari, is a false attribution to the Prophet, and that he once took it as a joke but now holds it inauthentic. Mufti Abu Layth says the report that women lack intellect and faith is inauthentic and falsely attributed to the Prophet.

Answer from 29 July 2018 · auto-transcribed, may contain errors

Kind: general teaching

Recording: Hadith Analysis: Did the Prophet ﷺ Refer to Women as Lacking Intellect and Faith? (at 0:00)

A more recent answer on society/women-and-gender exists (10 March 2023): Who carried on Imam Malik's teaching after him?

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Do the angels curse a wife who refuses her husband in bed?

Sun, 08 Jul 2018 00:00:00 +0000

Do the angels curse a wife who refuses her husband in bed?

No: Mufti Abu Layth holds the hadith is weak, resting on narrators who practised tadlis, and clashes with the Quran's command to treat wives with kindness. Mufti Abu Layth says he believes the hadith about a wife who stays away from her husband's bed is weak and unacceptable, clashing with the Quran.

Answer from 8 July 2018 · auto-transcribed, may contain errors

Kind: general teaching

Recording: Reply to Sunni (Wahhabi) Defence Pt. III -Mufti Abu Layth (at 3:12)

A more recent answer on hadith/authentication/narrator-criticism exists (19 April 2023): Why does the practice of Madinah matter more than a single hadith?

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Can women wear perfume when they go out?

Fri, 04 May 2018 00:00:00 +0000

Can women wear perfume when they go out?

Yes, women may wear perfume when they go out; Mufti Abu Layth says people should smell good and be presentable, and the slanderous reports must not be attributed to the Prophet. Mufti Abu Layth says women may wear perfume when they go out, that everyone should smell good and be presentable, and that the reports calling such women fornicators must not be attributed to the Prophet.

Answer from 4 May 2018 · auto-transcribed, may contain errors

Kind: general teaching

Recording: On Women Wearing Perfume: Debunking Weak and Blasphemous Hadith -Mufti Abu Layth (at 26:15)

A more recent answer on hadith/false-and-fabricated/about-women exists (6 April 2021): Did the Prophet say a wife should prostrate to her husband?

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Is a woman's prayer rejected if she wears perfume to the mosque?

Fri, 04 May 2018 00:00:00 +0000

Is a woman's prayer rejected if she wears perfume to the mosque?

No: Mufti Abu Layth says the report is a statement attributed to Abu Hurayra through unknown and weak narrators, not a hadith of the Prophet, and no one holds that such a prayer is invalid. Mufti Abu Layth says the report that a perfumed woman's prayer is not accepted until she bathes is not from the Prophet, rests on unknown and weak narrators, and is followed by no one.

Answer from 4 May 2018 · auto-transcribed, may contain errors

Kind: general teaching

Recording: On Women Wearing Perfume: Debunking Weak and Blasphemous Hadith -Mufti Abu Layth (at 23:40)

A more recent answer on hadith/authentication/narrator-criticism exists (19 April 2023): Why does the practice of Madinah matter more than a single hadith?

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Doesn't the hadith of Zaynab forbid women from wearing perfume to the mosque?

Fri, 04 May 2018 00:00:00 +0000

Doesn't the hadith of Zaynab forbid women from wearing perfume to the mosque?

The report only tells women not to wear perfume to the late Isha, sometimes Zaynab alone, so Mufti Abu Layth reads it as a specific instruction, not a general ban. Mufti Abu Layth says Zaynab's report, which mentions only the late Isha and in some versions addresses her alone, was a specific instruction for an unstated reason and not a general prohibition of perfume for women.

Answer from 4 May 2018 · auto-transcribed, may contain errors

Kind: general teaching

Recording: On Women Wearing Perfume: Debunking Weak and Blasphemous Hadith -Mufti Abu Layth (at 19:47)

A more recent answer on hadith/false-and-fabricated/about-women exists (6 April 2021): Did the Prophet say a wife should prostrate to her husband?

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Is the hadith about women wearing perfume being zaniya authentic?

Fri, 04 May 2018 00:00:00 +0000

Is the hadith about women wearing perfume being zaniya authentic?

Mufti Abu Layth says the report is not authentic: every version comes through one weak narrator, Thabit ibn Umara, from the obscure Ghunaym ibn Qays, and some early authorities stopped it at the companion. Mufti Abu Layth says the perfume report is not sahih and is a lie attributed to the Prophet, because it rests on a single chain through the weak Thabit ibn Umara from the little-known Ghunaym ibn Qays, and some early authorities did not attribute it to the Prophet.

Answer from 4 May 2018 · auto-transcribed, may contain errors

Kind: general teaching

Recording: On Women Wearing Perfume: Debunking Weak and Blasphemous Hadith -Mufti Abu Layth (at 2:39)

A more recent answer on hadith/authentication/narrator-criticism exists (19 April 2023): Why does the practice of Madinah matter more than a single hadith?

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Is there a hadith that says a woman who wears perfume outside is a zaniya?

Fri, 04 May 2018 00:00:00 +0000

Is there a hadith that says a woman who wears perfume outside is a zaniya?

The report, transmitted only from Abu Musa al-Ash'ari and found in al-Nasa'i, Abu Dawud, Ahmad and al-Tirmidhi, says a woman who passes people while wearing perfume is a fornicator.

Answer from 4 May 2018 · auto-transcribed, may contain errors

Kind: quoted view (stated in order to be discussed, not necessarily held)

Recording: On Women Wearing Perfume: Debunking Weak and Blasphemous Hadith -Mufti Abu Layth (at 0:00)

A more recent answer on hadith/false-and-fabricated/about-women exists (6 April 2021): Did the Prophet say a wife should prostrate to her husband?

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