Hadith on wife prostrating to her husband | Mufti Abu Layth

ali azad is it true that if permissible the prophet would have ordered wives to prostrate to their husbands is this hadith authentic no this hadith isn't authentic but um i feel that people may have related as a hadith in trying to extract an understanding of obedience within the family within the familial hierarchical structure of their time so obviously in that time in the prophet sallallahu alaihis time the societies

were patriarchal and and do watch my discussion with dr adis on that professor aides because we speak a lot about it this whole hierarchical structure and this kind of how the the the dominant structures worked and it doesn't mean that the prophet sallam was endorsing that but it just means that's how the world was operating at that time so people later on that are inculcating these this societal um i don't know norms or the the spirit of their society if you want to call it that

to their young children it's it's most likely there that these kind of hadith are born that a person says well you know the prophet taught that you should women should bow you know it's like how today in the indian subcontinent and by that i mean pakistan india and presumably bangladesh as well i'm not sure if they say but i assume they they have this understanding as well that it's taught to girls that when they are kind when they bid them farewell at their weddings they may not say then but they say it in the run up

they they kind of teach them that you see you only leave your husband's home not for day-to-day basis but meaning you only finish like you cut off from that home once you're being carried away in in a coffin meaning that you're you know they they call it the the what they carry the bride on the the kind of doli that we're taking that there it goes there and then it only comes out in a coffin now this is a teaching that is found widespread amongst hindus amongst muslims amongst

whoever with that resides within that part of the world so you can see how these teachings can then be um religionized okay so people they they give it this veneer of religion and before you know it people say things like well the prophet taught this and that's what how the origin of those hadith come about and even this this thing like we do speak about in our discussion uh dr uh avis about this the youth hadith that you know people say this culture of you must have this aggressive

somewhat violent jealousy over your you know your women whether they are your sisters daughters wives mothers you must have this kind of um deterring aggressive violent jealousy over them and that it's from the deen to have this these things are entirely fabricated entirely but people did them to justify and validate the tribal norms so some people wanting to pass this on to the spirit onto the younger offspring

then religionized it and passed it on as religion so that's how that would have come about