Author: Editor

The answer was, “What prevents him from that is the statement of Allah’s Messenger (peace and blessings be upon him), ‘Do not stop Allah’s female slaves (women) from going to Allah’s Mosques‘

During his lifetime, the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) used to teach and instruct people in his Mosque. His Companions followed suit after he passed away. Although there are no reports of women systematically teaching in the mosque, there are hundreds, even thousands, of prophetic traditions transmitted by women. Besides, hundreds of hadiths were reported by female Companions, especially the Prophet’s wives, which shows their scholarly rank as authorities in the Prophet’s Sunnah. As a matter of fact, one of the features of scholarship following the Prophet’s time was that male scholars of hadith used to learn...