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

*The 'women praying in wardrobes' claim rests on a false hadith; dogma and herd mentality*

- URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/iqvd5_ag6de/s/2/
- Date: 2020-01-17 · Kind: lesson · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Reply to Daniel Haqiqatjou on Mufti Menk | Mufti Abu Layth (5:05–7:29)
- Status: general teaching
- Watch from the start of the segment: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iQVd5_ag6DE&t=305s
- Recording page: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/iqvd5_ag6de/

**Topics:** Reports demeaning women; Women in worship and mosques; Views on contemporary scholars

**Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked):** 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.

**Checked position (checked by two independent reviews, not by the channel):** 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.

**Evidence, his words at 5:05:** “because he is this weak hadith which is a false hadith people it's not even a saying of the Prophet” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iQVd5_ag6DE&t=305s)

## Longer summary

Mufti Abu Layth recalls a clip in which Daniel Haqiqatjou [?] said that his wife praying in her wardrobe, where she kept a prayer mat, was fulfilling a Sunnah of the Prophet. Mufti says this rests on a weak hadith which is in fact a false one and not a saying of the Prophet at all, and that Haqiqatjou did not merely call it a saying of the Prophet but a Sunnah within Islam to put women into wardrobes; he asks when there were wardrobes in the Prophet's time. He says he feels for such people and finds it shocking that so many Muslims believe and follow them, calling this dogmatism, and says this is why he liked the television series Messiah, which showed herd mentality, how people follow blindly through dogma, and what creates belief. He then moves on to other matters.

## Sources and names cited

- Daniel Haqiqatjou [?]
- report: the woman prays in her wardrobe (content not quoted; called weak and false)
- sunnah

## Transcript (machine tier, 5:05–7:29)

[4:57] opposite end and I don't know if you remember a while back I picked up I have a clip on his women praying in in wardrobes so he said it was a Sunnah of the Prophet that that they were fulfilling that his wife in the wardrobe his wife had a like a a Sajjad a masala she had a pre mark in her wardrobe and they used to pray not they but she would pray in her wardrobe because he is this weak hadith which is a false hadith people it's not even a saying of the

[5:35] Prophet and he never even just said it's a saying of the Prophet he said this is a Sunnah within Islam to shove women into wardrobes woman get yourself in that goddamn wardrobe and it's like when did they have wardrobes in the time of the Prophet this is this is what happens

[6:10] seriously man I feel seriously for these can't be because of course and the shocking thing is so many Muslims believe them and they follow them and this is Dogma T's and this is why I love that TV series Messiah because he showed you how herd mentality is how people follow blindly through Dogma when they see something and what creates belief so yeah so I thought I'd mentioned that cool right what else is going on

[6:50] Dukey this is dookie dookie is like depressed depressed Daniel Danny Boy right so right what is going on oh isn't it don't it's doom leading the doom doom doom it's not even the dumb it's the doom so right right what is

## Cite

Mufti Abu Layth Archive, segment iQVd5_ag6DE/s/2. https://muftiabulayth.org/r/iqvd5_ag6de/s/2/

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