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Did the Prophet say women lack intellect and faith?

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Did the Prophet say women lack intellect and faith? Reading the report

LessonRecorded 29 Jul 2018Clarifying False Hadith Which Insult IslamSegment 1 of 6 in the recording2018-07-29-S01

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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.

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Mufti Abu Layth opens a hadith analysis of whether the Prophet described women as lacking intellect and faith. He says he is all for humour, including jokes about women, but attributing such things to the Prophet is entirely different because it gives them religious validation. Mufti says that in the past he thought this report was a kind of joke, but after revisiting it and discussing it with someone he stands corrected: the context has nothing to do with humour, and he will demonstrate that it is inauthentic, a misattribution that has insulted Islam. He reads the version in al-Bukhari through Abu Sa'id al-Khudri: on an Eid the Prophet told the women to give charity because he had seen them to be most of the inhabitants of hell for cursing much and being ungrateful to their husbands, that he had seen none lacking in intellect and faith yet more able to distract a resolute man, and that the lack of intellect is a woman's testimony counting as half a man's and the lack of faith is not praying or fasting while menstruating.

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Mufti Abu Layth says the report that women lack intellect and faith is inauthentic and falsely attributed to the Prophet.

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“I'm going to read this hadith and demonstrate today that this hadith is inauthentic it is not true and I'll show the many problems with this attribution misattribution to the Prophet”

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take a look guys at this hadith right there's a question this is a hadith analysis we're gonna do the question that did the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wasallam refer to women as lacking intellect and lacking faith right now laughing matter but you see look before I begin this topic I want to say look there's a lot of stereotypes there's a

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lot of jokes there's a lot of I know sometimes women don't appreciate them and which makes sense there's a lot of these kind of jokes about women sometimes or let's say women can't drive or people will say things or are they really intelligent stuff like these now me as a person yet I'm all up for humor and humor has no bounds with someone like me okay and that's one thing and if a person say certain things out of humor or maybe people may not appreciate that sense of humor and some people may find it funny others may find it may be offensive and that's the nature of humor

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however it is an entirely different thing saying that the prophet of God said that because that's a whole different discourse you see people in their own circles in their own gatherings in their own may say all sorts like people have stereotypes people are not it let's just be honest humor or whatever or even discussions or people trying to punchline joke so the best kind of things are usually the worst in terms of political correctness but that's one topic of discussion and it's an entirely different thing to say

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attribute these things to the prophet of God to say Islam is saying these things because then you're giving something a religious validation you're trying to say Allah is saying this The Messenger of God is saying these you're not saying oh this is some kind of hahahaha you know this is this humor or you know it's just a joke a bad joke you're trying to say no no no this is actually not only factual but God is saying these things now in the past I had been asked this question and I thought that this

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was a in the past I felt that this was a kind of joke this is what I felt however upon further inspection and revisiting and some people I had some discussions with some people and you know sometimes we don't like the hadith they're kind of fleeting so I've not like I remembered certain words of the hadith I don't remember the full context and I had a discussion with somebody and he said no no now look the context of the hadith is nothing to do with humor and it's nothing to do with this and and so I thought okay let me revisit the hadith

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and and I did and I stand corrected this hadith this has nothing to do with humor I'm going to read this hadith and demonstrate today that this hadith is inauthentic it is not true and I'll show the many problems with this attribution misattribution to the Prophet which is part of those hadith that have been falsely or wrongly attributed and they have insulted Islam as a consequence so I'm going to take a look at this let me

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read that one one text so I'll take the example of the one in Buhari that the messenger of allah salallahu alaihe salam this one from abu zeid include three that he came out one day fee aloha on idul adha oh the Adel feet are all on the either feet or so is one of the two Eids to the masala to the place of prayer for Mara Allen Issa and then he passed by the women pahala yama Sharon Nisa he said Oh women the sadhana give in charity for Amira a token a for indeed I have come to know of you or I

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have seen you to be actor Alan now most of the inhabitants of the of the of the fire of hell far corner they said Bobby my Ursula why why would that be the case honor he said took third nilin because you excessively sweet what a kernel I share and you are ungrateful especially to your husband's or people who cater for you maura item in our society a clean I have not seen any women I have not seen humans as in females but here it refers

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to female humans who lack intellect and faith what Dean have who can do away we'll look at Roger little has him with the determination of a resolute man I mean da cunha then one of you meaning like how you women can like a lure or tempt or distract a man that is so focused is just like whoa it's it's like that man so the women said well my knocks on Odie Nina are cleaner and what is it that we lack in our intellect and faith yaris oh la la so he said the

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ELISA shahadat old Marat Mithra miss Fisher had to tell Roger isn't the testimony of a woman half the testimony of a man they said indeed Allah Fethullah come in nachshoni a Calleja he said that is the lack of her intellect ELISA either how that is a habit isn't it if she is menstruating LEM - suddenly willamette assume she does not fast nor pray they said indeed holliford I like an ox on edenia they said that is the he said that is the lack of their Dean okay right people those of you just tuning in if you click like and share I'd like you to share this I'm going to go through an

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analysis of showing why this hadith is a false attribution to our prophet okay now they are that's the narration in summary I will I will go through I will go through the change to show why these chains are problematic but I'll do that in a moment there's no point doing that immediately I will tell you that these the this hadith with with varied wording is transmitted by four companions mainly to buy other seasonal hoodie and by abnormal so these four narrations each

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Mufti Abu Layth Archive, segment 2018-07-29-S01, auto-transcribed, may contain errors. https://muftiabulayth.org/r/tfzo7s3t_8o/s/1/ (accessed 1 November 2026)

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Mufti Abu Layth. (2018, July 29). Did the Prophet say women lack intellect and faith? [Video, segment 2018-07-29-S01, auto-transcribed, may contain errors]. Mufti Abu Layth Archive. Retrieved November 1, 2026, from https://muftiabulayth.org/r/tfzo7s3t_8o/s/1/
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  title = {{Did the Prophet say women lack intellect and faith?}},
  year = {2018},
  month = {7},
  date = {2018-07-29},
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  organization = {Mufti Abu Layth Archive},
  urldate = {2026-11-01},
  note = {Segment 2018-07-29-S01, auto-transcribed, may contain errors}
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