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Image of Women in the Prophet's Hadith
Dar Al-Fekr issued in 2008 the book "Image of Women in the Prophet's Hadith", authored by "Razan Abdu Al-Hakim", who talked about the image of women in Hadith and considered women valuable image in content and form and more distinguished than other women's images drawn by other human creators; women gained their value from the greatness of the Prophet's message, and from the Prophet Muhammad.
Women's image was marked in the prophet's Hadith by qualities inspired by the divine message and the memorizer thereof; her image came as a universal human real exemplary sincere clear simple spontaneous image and those qualities characterize the whole prophetic statement.
Studies on women were conducted by many writers and poets, but studies on women in Prophet's Hadith didn't have the same fortune. Studies interested of the legitimate side, focused on the status of women in Islam, and dealt with women's rights and obligations, without exposure to the language of Messenger of Allah while talking with or about women except in rare cases, this was the motivator to search the image of women in Hadith from literary perspective.
The distortion of women's image has several reasons, including:
- Women were judged through a group Hadith that addresses women from one perspective of life.
- Wrong understanding of substantial Hadith on women, based thereon clarification of their ethics and instinctive qualities.
- Awful mixing between Hadith Saheeh (authenticated) and Hadith mardud (rejected).
Hence this book clarified the true image of women as it compiled greatest part of Hadith Sahih and Hasan (authentic and good) to compare them with features of distorted image contained in the other Hadith.
The Book found that women are present in every aspect of life, and she was with the Prophet of Allah (r) in all his movements and his words did not overlook her presence in any case.
The Book adopted the following classification:
1 - Hadith that highlight the general status of women in terms of qualities and appearance.
2 - Hadith that target a woman or a specific group of women, and reinforce previous outlook.
3 - Hadith that carry Ahkam (rulings).