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Women in worship and mosques

12 segments in 7 recordings · 2014 to 2021 · 0 verified · 8 checked positions · society/women-and-gender/women-in-worship-and-mosques · Feed

Most recent statement · 26 Jan 2021Can a woman be an imam and lead the prayer?Older segments link here so no earlier explanation is read as the last word.

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Latest answer · 26 Jan 2021

26 Jan 2021Monday Nights with Mufti Abu Layth LatestCan a woman be an imam and lead the prayer? Yes: a woman can be an imam and her leading the prayer is valid, though whether it works in practice depends on her society accepting it. Question from live chatposition checkedimam machine2 min 38 s50:21on YouTube

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2021 · 1

12 Jan 2021Monday Nights with Mufti Abu Layth Can a woman lead the prayer or give the khutbah? Yes, he says a woman may lead the prayer, give the adhan or the khutbah; it is not invalid, it is just generally not done. Question from live chatposition checkedadhankhutbahimam machine3 min 05 s1:35:21on YouTube

2020 · 2

19 Apr 2020MindTrap with Mufti Abu Layth Can women be stopped from going to the mosque because of fitnah? The guest says there is no evidence for keeping women from the mosque beyond fear of fitnah, since even harassment in the Prophet's time did not lead to a ban; Mufti Abu Layth cites Malik's report of men and women making wudu together. Discussionguest speechShaykh Kashif Khan (guest)report: a woman was raped on her way to the mosque for the fajr prayer (al-Tirmidhi, number not stated)report: some men in the prayer would look at a beautiful woman praying behind themreport: men and women used to perform wudu together in the time of the prophet (al-Muwatta) machine6 min 31 s29:14on YouTube
17 Jan 2020Responding to Refutations Is it a Sunnah for women to pray in a wardrobe or the innermost room? 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. Lessonposition checkedDaniel Haqiqatjou [?]report: the woman prays in her wardrobe (content not quoted; called weak and false)sunnah machine2 min 24 s5:05on YouTube

2019 · 5

4 May 2019On Current Events Daniel Haqiqatjou's post that praying in a closet is a Sunnah for women Daniel Haqiqatjou's post claimed that a woman praying in a closet revives a Sunnah and that this is better for her than praying in the Prophet's mosque. Discussionquoted view, not his positionDaniel Haqiqatjoureport: a woman's prayer in her makhda' is better than her prayer in her roomreport: i know that you love to pray with me but your prayer in your room is better for you than your prayer in my mosque (Umm Humayd)Umm Humayd [?] machine5 min 33 s0:00on YouTube
4 May 2019On Current Events Does a hadith tell women to pray in a closet? No: the word makhda' means an inner sleeping chamber, not a closet, and such rooms were dark only because houses had no lamps. Lessonposition checkedDaniel Haqiqatjoumakhda' (inner chamber)Aishareport: the houses in those days had no lamps (Aisha) machine3 min 53 s5:33on YouTube
4 May 2019On Current Events Is it better for women to pray at home than in the mosque? No: sahih hadith show women regularly praying in the Prophet's mosque, the Prophet forbade stopping them, and Umar and Ali provided imams for them. Lessonposition checkedreport: prayer in this mosque of mine is better than a thousand prayers elsewhere except al-masjid al-haramreport: the women would leave the fajr prayer and could not be recognised because of the darkness (cited as in al-Bukhari, number not stated)report: do not prevent the female servants of allah from the mosques of allahreport: if the prophet had seen what the women do now he would have prevented them from the mosque (Aisha) machine8 min 09 s15:11on YouTube
4 May 2019On Current Events Is the hadith about women praying in the darkest part of the house authentic? No: the chains run through unknown, abandoned or weak narrators, so the reports are fabricated or very weak and clash with the sahih hadith. Lessonposition checkedreport: i know that you love to pray with me but your prayer in your room is better for you than your prayer in my mosque (Umm Humayd)report: the best prayer of a woman is in the darkest part of her house (Abu Hurayra, Ibn Khuzayma)Musnad AhmadAbu Dawud machine8 min 22 s23:22on YouTube
4 May 2019On Current Events Have Muslims really kept women out of mosques for 1,400 years? No: women prayed in mosques from the Prophet's time on and classical scholars held many such views, so the '1,400 years' claim fails; Mufti Abu Layth doubts Haqiqatjou's scholarly training. DiscussionDaniel HaqiqatjouUmar ibn al-KhattabAli ibn Abi TalibImam Malik machine6 min 22 s31:44on YouTube

2018 · 2

4 May 2018Clarifying False Hadith Which Insult Islam Doesn't the hadith of Zaynab forbid women from wearing perfume to the mosque? The report only tells women not to wear perfume to the late Isha, sometimes Zaynab alone, so Mufti Abu Layth reads it as a specific instruction, not a general ban. Lessonposition checkedreport: idha shahidat ihdakunna al-isha al-akhira fa la tamassa tiban (Zaynab al-Thaqafiyya; Sahih Muslim and al-Nasa'i, number not stated)Zaynab al-ThaqafiyyaIbn Mas'udBusr ibn Sa'id [?] machine3 min 53 s19:47on YouTube
4 May 2018Clarifying False Hadith Which Insult Islam Is a woman's prayer rejected if she wears perfume to the mosque? No: Mufti Abu Layth says the report is a statement attributed to Abu Hurayra through unknown and weak narrators, not a hadith of the Prophet, and no one holds that such a prayer is invalid. Lessonposition checkedreport: la tuqbalu salatu imraatin tatayyabat lil-masjid hatta taghtasila ghuslaha min al-janaba (Abu Hurayra; Abu Dawud and Ahmad, number not stated)Abu HurayraUbayd, client of Abu Ruhm [?]Asim ibn Ubaydullah machine2 min 35 s23:40on YouTube

2014 · 1

9 May 2014video Must a young woman cover her face because of fitnah? The speakers disagree: one holds the books require covering where there is fitnah from young women, the other that such a rule would swallow the Prophet's own practice. Discussionquoted view, not his positionguest speechUstadh Abdus Shakur Brooks (guest)fitnahreport: do not prevent the female servants of allah from the mosques of allahreport: if the prophet had seen what the women do now he would have prevented them from the mosque (Aisha) machine5 min 01 s6:30on YouTube