# Does the Quran say most people in hell are women?

*The report against the Quran: no gender divide in hell, all humans weak*

- URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/tfzo7s3t_8o/s/2/
- Date: 2018-07-29 · Kind: lesson · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Hadith Analysis: Did the Prophet ﷺ Refer to Women as Lacking Intellect and Faith? (6:30–12:53)
- Status: general teaching
- Watch from the start of the segment: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TFZo7S3T_8o&t=390s
- Recording page: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/tfzo7s3t_8o/

**Topics:** Reports demeaning women; Text criticism, reason and the Quran; Women in Islam

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

**Checked position (checked by two independent reviews, not by the channel):** Mufti Abu Layth says the Quran never makes a gender differentiation regarding the people of hell, so the report goes against it.

**Evidence, his words at 9:43:** “speaking about people and and the afterlife and people damnation it never makes gender differentiation ever in the Koran right so this seems to be a new principle which is going up against the Quran” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TFZo7S3T_8o&t=583s)

## Longer summary

Mufti Abu Layth says the report comes with varied wording from four companions, including Abu Sa'id al-Khudri and Abu Hurayra, and cites Ibn al-Jawzi, the Hanbali scholar, that a hadith cannot go against reason, the Quran, established Sunnah or a principle, and that poor wording or contradiction shows a report to be fabricated. Mufti says the report teaches that women are the majority in hell, which the Quran contradicts, since it addresses the children of Adam and mankind and never differentiates by gender in speaking of damnation. He says it also implies an inherent deficiency in women, whereas the Quran describes humans as a whole as created weak, forgetful and ungrateful, citing the verse that man was created weak and the verse that Adam was not found resolute. Turning to the Sunnah, Mufti asks why the Prophet, wanting the women to give charity on the joyous occasion of Eid, would open by telling them most of them would end up in hell.

## Sources and names cited

- report: women are the majority of the people of hell and lacking in intellect and faith (in Sahih al-Bukhari and Sahih Muslim, number not stated)
- Abu Sa'id al-Khudri
- Abu Hurayra
- Ibn al-Jawzi
- a hadith must not contradict reason, the Quran and established Sunnah, or uproot a principle of Islam
- Quran 4:28 (man was created weak): https://quran.com/4/28
- Quran 20:115 (We made a covenant with Adam, but he forgot, and We found in him no resolve): https://quran.com/20/115

## Transcript (machine tier, 6:30–12:53)

[5:51] 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

[6:29] 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

[7:09] to both of these then by Abu Hurairah on generations and then one narration by Edna my salute really Allah one okay right now what is the issue with this right first of all it's so obvious let's just start with whenever we see a hadith let's take the words of ignore jiazi that's not even a KML josiya who we mentioned earlier on this is evening Josie who precedes him much earlier on in fact ignore Josie is the one who set up the school in which generations later

[7:47] if not William his father was kind of the caretaker and the kind of he managed the school hence he's known as they emerge Oh see and this is his son but ignore Josie the humbly scholar he in in one of his works on hadith is all he highlights as do other scholars that are hadith for it to be valid it cannot go against reason let me buy in ma-kun let me highly film on all he cannot go against established sources of the Quran and established Sunna well I mean Akkad it'll slowly cannot approve a principle also in one of his works he has about fabricated hadith he speaks how can you identify a hadith to be wrong and false

[8:27] he says look at the wording if you find contradictions or you find a ricotta you find it's poorly worded like the wording is poor in its whether it's it's grammar or its style that's enough to know that this cannot be the words of the Prophet okay let's take a look at the Quran now this hadith teaches us a few things if we take let's call this a hadith for a moment this teaches us a few things one it teaches us that women are supposed to be the majority inhabitants of the

[9:05] Hellfire let's look at the Koran there is nothing not only say nothing in the Koran that supports that view but actually the Quran outright contradicts that view the Quran speaks are on all occasions to Bani Adam yeah you an ass oh the children of Adam o mankind in fact mainly placing an emphasis always just by the nature of its language on the male listeners now it does include females but it never ever

[9:43] leans in towards the females and if ever it's either gender neutral or its kind of inclining towards males and speaking about people and and the afterlife and people damnation it never makes gender differentiation ever in the Koran right so this seems to be a new principle which is going up against the Quran to start off with okay the other thing is this seems to show that women have a an inherent deficiency okay this hadith is

[10:21] is apparently showing that once again when you look at the Quran the Quran shows that humans as a whole or kind of like deficient creatures like who little Insano byfa in Sun has been created weak Allah does not say women have been created weak he says in Sun has been created weak on all the occasions Allah shows in son to be somebody that is forgetful that is a half fill that is you know they're distracted or they they kind of like ungrateful they turn away

[10:56] they don't listen in son right beginning that this is the our journey of Adam that walaqad are hidden in an atom that we had this covenant with Adam phenomena did Lihue Ozma and we did not find him to be of resolute determination and that's Adam and then this is his offspring Ali Senna and so that's the Quran clearly gives a different picture altogether there's no such thing about the Quran trying to make gender differentiation at all at all in terms of the fire of hell and stuff like this at all

[11:36] all that in sign has been created weak but women are weaker it doesn't make it doesn't create and I don't I'm not talking about a physical kind of weakness I'm talking about a kind of capacity okay now you look at the Sunnah okay of the prot of the messenger of allah sallallahu lism let's analyze this particular hadith so this hadith is saying that the purpose of this hadith is that the Prophet wants the women to give charity the Soldotna he wants them to give charity on the day of Eid but he begins by trying to say you know you will be the most of the inhabitants of

[12:15] the fire of hell right so the question is like well why would the Prophet first of all as a question as a tiny question why would the Prophet on such a joyous occasion bring up something like this like it's a joyous occasion it's Eid let's say and the Prophet begins by trying to say to the women do you know most of you are gonna end up in hell and the interesting thing is he's addressing them okay now let's take a look at some of the things that are mentioned in this text that are

## Cite

Mufti Abu Layth Archive, segment TFZo7S3T_8o/s/2. https://muftiabulayth.org/r/tfzo7s3t_8o/s/2/

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