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Sahih al-Bukhari 2658

The witness of women

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حَدَّثَنَا ابْنُ أَبِي مَرْيَمَ أَخْبَرَنَا مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ جَعْفَرٍ قَالَ أَخْبَرَنِي زَيْدٌ عَنْ عِيَاضِ بْنِ عَبْدِ اللَّهِ عَنْ أَبِي سَعِيدٍ الْخُدْرِيِّ ؓ عَنِ النَّبِيِّ ﷺ قَالَ

أَلَيْسَ شَهَادَةُ الْمَرْأَةِ مِثْلَ نِصْفِ شَهَادَةِ الرَّجُلِ قُلْنَا بَلَى قَالَ فَذَلِكَ مِنْ نُقْصَانِ عَقْلِهَا

Translation

Chain of narrators
  1. Ibn Abū Maryam
  2. Muḥammad b. Jaʿfar
  3. Zayd
  4. ʿIyāḍ b. ʿAbdullāh
  5. Abū Saʿīd al-Khudrī
  6. al-Nabī ﷺ

The Prophet ﷺ said, "Isn't the witness of a woman equal to half of that of a man?" The women said, "Yes." He said, "This is because of the deficiency of a woman's mind."

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Same hadith, other wordings

  • Misykatul Mashabih 19وَعَنْ أَبِي سَعِيدٍ الْخُدْرِيِّ قَالَ خَرَجَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ صَلَّى اللَّهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ فِي أَضْحًى أَوْ فِطْرٍ إِلَى الْمُصَلَّى فَمَرَّ عَلَى النِّسَاءِ فَقَالَ يَا مَعْشَرَ النِّسَاءِ تَصَدَّقْنَ فَإِنِي أُرِيتُكُنَّ أَكْثَرَ أَ
  • Shahih al-Bukhari 304خَرَجَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ ﷺ فِي أَضْحًى أَوْ فِطْرٍ إِلَى الْمُصَلَّى فَمَرَّ عَلَى النِّسَاءِ فَقَالَ: «يَا مَعْشَرَ النِّسَاءِ، تَصَدَّقْنَ! فَإِنِّي أُرِيتُكُنَّ أَكْثَرَ أَهْلِ النَّارِ۔» فَقُلْنَ: وَبِمَ يَا رَسُولَ اللَّهِ؟ قَالَ: «تُكْث
  • Shahih al-Bukhari 1951أَلَيْسَ إِذَا حَاضَتْ لَمْ تُصَلِّ وَلَمْ تَصُمْ فَذَلِكَ نُقْصَانُ دِينِهَا

Other narrations of this report

al-Sunan al-Kubra (al-Bayhaqi) 20593al-Sunan al-Kubra (al-Bayhaqi) 20594al-Sunan al-Kubra (al-Bayhaqi) 20604Musnad Abi Ya'la 5286

Narrators

  1. Abū Saʿīd al-Khudrī
    He and his father were Companions (ṣuḥbah).d. 63 AH, or 64 AH, or 65 AH, or 74 AH
    أَبُو سَعِيدٍ الْخُدْرِيُّله ولأبيه صحبة
    عن
  2. ʿIyāḍ b. ʿAbdillāh
    trustworthy (thiqah)d. at the turn of 100 AH
    عِيَاضِ بْنِ عَبْدِ اللهِثقة
    عن
  3. Zayd b. Aslam
    trustworthy (thiqah), a scholar, and he would narrate with omission of the Companion link (yursil)d. 135 AH or 136 AH
    زَيْدٌثقة عالم ، وكان يرسل
    أخبرني
  4. Muḥammad b. Jaʿfar
    trustworthy (thiqah)d. between 161 AH and 170 AH
    مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ جَعْفَرٍثقة
    أخبرنا
  5. Saʿīd b. Abī Maryam
    trustworthy (thiqah), firm (thabt), juristd. 224 AH
    ابْنُ أَبِي مَرْيَمَثقة ثبت فقيه
    حدثنا
  6. al-Bukhārī
    a mountain of memorization and the leader of the world in the comprehension of hadith (jabal al-ḥifẓ wa-imām al-dunyā fī fiqh al-ḥadīth)d. 256 AH
    الْبُخَارِيُّجبل الحفظ وإمام الدنيا في فقه الحديث

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Commentaries

Fatḥ al-Bārī (Ibn Ḥajar)
ʿUmdat al-Qārī (Badr al-Dīn al-ʿAynī)

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