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Is the hadith about women praying in the darkest part of the house authentic?
salaah namaz salaat namaaz as-salah al-salah salawat hadeeth ahadith ahaadeeth hadis hadees ahaadith saheeh saheeh hadith sound hadith seerah sira seera seerat prophetic biography ka'bah ka'ba kaabah masjed masaajid masajid muftis mawdu' mawdoo maudu mawdhu rawi raawi ruwat rijal surah sura soorah surat suwar soora hifz hafidh haafiz hifdh huffaz hafiza memorisation sahabah sahabi sahabiyyah sahabiyat companions madinah madina al-madinah madeenah yathrib al-din ad-deen ad-dinThe chains of the 'darkest part of her house' reports
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machinesummary, machine-writtenNo: the chains run through unknown, abandoned or weak narrators, so the reports are fabricated or very weak and clash with the sahih hadith.
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Mufti Abu Layth goes through the reports one by one. The report through Umm Humayd's family, he says, has narrators nobody can identify, including the grandmother it is transmitted from, and he calls it fabricated; another chain, in Ahmad, Abu Dawud, Ibn Khuzayma and al-Hakim, also runs through unknown narrators, and he questions whether one narrator ever heard from his source, noting that Ibn Hibban lists such unknowns in his book of trustworthy narrators. He says Ibn Khuzayma himself headed the chapter on Abu Hurayra's report that a woman's best prayer is in the darkest part of her house with a doubt about its authenticity, and goes through further versions with unknown, abandoned or weak narrators, including Qatada's habit of transmitting from people he never heard, and reports in al-Tabarani. He concludes the reports are either fabricated or very weak and clash with the sahih hadith and the sirah, in which women attended the Prophet's mosque, and says calling a cupboard better than the Prophet's mosque is absurd, the result of taking the deen without study and of using religion to justify control.
Position stated
Mufti Abu Layth says the narrations about a woman praying in the darkest part of her house are either fabricated or very weak.
“we can go on and on with these narrations these narrations are either fabricated or very weak they clash with the sahih hadith”
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so your salah is better in your internally in your homes is better than in your courtyards or the extended house which is then better your courtyards are better than praying in the Masjid this hadith is mo - MO - fabricated ok signa handsome said then this generation in ahmed and in abu dawood and even of Jose ma and Al Haqq him from Willie didn't Abdullah evening to me who is life the ieave right ok from his grandmother Leila bint Malik who is unknown who is Laila bin - Malik
Lana tree who is Laila been - Malik we don't know she is from Abdul Rahman if Khalid Ansari who is module we don't even know who this person is I'm The Rock manual Ansari from hit from America ok so this is the another one that they use but this one right ok let's move on to the other one another popular one that they use from transmitted by ahmed from Doudna face from abdul likeness sweet swedenland sorry l hope amin not al-harithi by the way these two of these people from his aunt in Marathi who made a sir ID that she
came to the prophet and the Prophet said the same thing and he said look I know that you love praying with me but your prayer in your house is better than you pray in your front part of your house which is better than the pray in your house which is better than the prayer in in the Masjid of your people which is then better than the prayer in my mosque the hadith that he used and then she commanded so they made a play area for her in the farthest area of her home and the darkest and she's to praying until she met a long learn so first of all
this Dawood from eveness edna sweet where does he say that he's ever actually heard a transmission from him that this word is their sama no somehow ok so lazy loafer could have it - sorry wire Allah Hafiz this is the only narration he has in the nine books of hadith in the nine books of hadith ok an updo like a Swede al ansari is not al-harithi the Sahaba which they some peep confused inform bihari mentions him about him mentioning but they don't mention that he's a theta so he and who is he
he remains much food and they're gonna say well even a headband mentioned him in the thick hot but that's because if night band does Tosi he just puts many Magi he people who've not transmitted you know people who've only had one transmitter from them for example he puts them in his book of of their part if no Jose man brings a rewire on up to live no Jennifer even energy society who is life and Moon Carol hadith Jaden he's mukha right this person unaccepted and he himself says fulfilled album in whose shape that I you know I'm very doubtful
about this person then he says Mohammed Mohammed who is problematic if he's transmitting from a be Salma and guess who is transmitting from here I miss Alma you got it from Abu Huraira that he said in a hopper salat into Salah al maraa in Allah and to suddenly fear team economy Beatty has alma the best prayer to pray for a woman is in the darkest area of a home ha ha fabricated hadith Abner Jose mahem self titled this chapter of the hadith Babu stre salat al Marathi bTW an ocelot earful Masjid in
the battle Kaaba he says that always better for a woman to pray in her what is it in a home that Masjid if this were is sahi putting a question mark t and he doesn't normally do things like that by the way so then you've got a narration from amra blonde hadith that damn Rajan a Bassam who is MOT Rukh I'll rewire who tell rates from say mola Oh miss Alma who is much rule and Oh miss Alma so Jinnah be that the best pray of women is in the in the depths of their homes then you have another rewire from Hobby Lobby turbot which is moon Katya
and Eve normal then you have a narration from Ibrahim of the Muslim Allah Jerry with life Anabella and Abdullah the similar kind of narration okay now in this right okay and you've got right open a Hosea mentioned in his transmission of this narration why am asscher-cut to face a hottie let me let our people alas America tada Adel Hubbard memorial so he himself says that Qatada who is a major model list by
the way I don't believe that he has actually even heard from this transmitter more rip so and you've got some transmissions from Qatada who is I've mentioned in the past transmits many many from many people without actually ever hearing from them it's just it just at least and then you've got a transmission in tehrany and it's all set from say dubrow mahadji up in a cornfield who's much rule from Alma Selma this is a harem party as even has amenities have said then you've got one in Tehran is Kabir which is transmitted
by evening lahia who is unacceptable once again then you've got in the son of a half-demon Tariq and life once again from Hamilton Abdul Rahman if Nabil Aviva whose week life on JIT then then you've got a narration from jerry jipner who is what la who used to fabricate hadith fabricate hadith from movies or you see people look we can go on and on with these narrations these narrations are either fabricated or very weak they clash with the sahih hadith they clash
with the serie of the prophet so the serie that we know in the prophet's lifetime women used to attend in the prophet's mosque that's why they used to pray they don't have to attend but they could and they did now the Prophet will take some guys look I'm seeing that you coming here every day for God's sake it's more virtuous to pray at home he never ever said that and the Prophet taught in sayyidi that his Masjid is the most virtuous to crane and there is the rewire that except in Makana did mention a going to mom Alec no but that generally Medina is always better but that's that's a different discussion but for people to
say you know for a woman her cupboard or a wardrobe or a closet or some dark corner switch off the lights is better than the Masjid of Nephi right is absurd absurd and this is what happens when you take this theme without having studied it this is what happens when you have a personality disorder that is like a control freak kind of control freak paranoia we you have issues of control and are using religion to justify it you know many insecurities you'll find many
people they'll use religion as their biggest shield now I read a post by Daniel saying what is it with Muslims today trying to put this up I think it was today somebody shared it with me when I mentioned I'm gonna speak about him saying what is it with Muslims today saying oh the Prophet was a feminist or the Islam is about supporting feminism and this and that and billions of Muslims for you know what billions of Muslims for centuries had no issues with this for 1,400 years and today you have an issue first of all what billions of
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