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So yes, it's true Imam Al-Ghazali was incorrect in describing women. But "Many other classical Muslim scholars"? I doubt that.
1. Imam Malik r.a praised his daughter's intelligence OVER his son's intelligence as she used to tell repeat the hadith from behind the veil in the room. https://twitter.com/ibraheem_batta/status/1199553866183790592
1. Imam Malik r.a praised his daughter's intelligence OVER his son's intelligence as she used to tell repeat the hadith from behind the veil in the room. https://twitter.com/ibraheem_batta/status/1199553866183790592
The sources are the many books of the maliki madhhab and the maliki shuyuukh that I know of.
2. Imam Al-Qurtubi in his tafsir emphasizes that men ought to be kind to women.
3. Ibn Taymiyyah even permitted women to lead salah from behind the congregation
2. Imam Al-Qurtubi in his tafsir emphasizes that men ought to be kind to women.
3. Ibn Taymiyyah even permitted women to lead salah from behind the congregation
4. Also look at Imam Tabari's sharh.
He's literally emphasizing that men have to fulfill their rights 100% of the time while the women can be excused. If Tabari's not a classical scholar I don't know who the hell is.
He's literally emphasizing that men have to fulfill their rights 100% of the time while the women can be excused. If Tabari's not a classical scholar I don't know who the hell is.
5. Let's go on shall we?
Let's see what Ibn Hajar has to say:
Let's see what Ibn Hajar has to say:
6. Umar r.a
7. As-Sakhawi was famous for writing a book about female education in the Islamic Golden age.
8. Among Imam Bukhari's teachers there were many women
9. Shaykhul Islam Ibn Qudaamah Al-Maqdisi had 3 female teachers and had female disciples who inherited his way of fiqh
7. As-Sakhawi was famous for writing a book about female education in the Islamic Golden age.
8. Among Imam Bukhari's teachers there were many women
9. Shaykhul Islam Ibn Qudaamah Al-Maqdisi had 3 female teachers and had female disciples who inherited his way of fiqh
10. Ibn Hajar rahimahullah mentions 1543 female scholars in his books according to the egyptian Dar Al-Ifta
11. Farid-UD-Din Attar, the famous Persian poet and sufi who wrote the amazing book Mantiq At-Tayr said this of Rabi'ah and her meeting of Hasan al basri:
11. Farid-UD-Din Attar, the famous Persian poet and sufi who wrote the amazing book Mantiq At-Tayr said this of Rabi'ah and her meeting of Hasan al basri:
And finally a video demonstrating how Ibn Kathir, Ibn Al-Jawzi, Al-Khatib Al-Baghdadi.
Let's see what classical scholar Ibn Kathir has to say on her in his book Al-Bidaayah wa Al-Nihaayah:
Translation in the last post:
Let's see what classical scholar Ibn Kathir has to say on her in his book Al-Bidaayah wa Al-Nihaayah:
Translation in the last post:
"She read the qur'an and protected fiqh, and the faraa'id (I assume he meant inheritance laws), and mathematics and algebra, and many many more things. And she was among the most knowledgable of people in her time of the madhhab of Imam Ash-Shaafi'i, and she gave fatwas with...
... Shaykh Abu 'Aliy ibn Abi Hurayrah, and she herself was honored by her giving in alms, an outstripper in doing good deeds, and I have also heard a hadith of her aswell... etc. etc."
If Ibn Kathir and Khatib Baghdadi are not classical scholarship, I don't know who the hell is.
If Ibn Kathir and Khatib Baghdadi are not classical scholarship, I don't know who the hell is.
