Women who taught their husbands

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Muslim women today may not teach their husbands because ,they don’t have that sort of knowledge to teach their husbands,the husband does not want to learn from his wife (“how embarrassing my wife teaching me!”),one or both parties are just too busy to take time out to sit together and learn the Deen of Allah swt and one or both parties have no or little interest in studying Islam.

But the Muslims of the past were very different from the Muslims of today. When this information reached to me I was asking my wife anything you know from the Islamic wisdom can teach me but felt shy. The reason we are actually not learning the scripture and Prophet pbuh said a muslim who has no knowledge of quran and sunnah that is a vacant house where ghosts are staying. The scholars of the past were such that they would travel for months in pursuit of just one Hadith of the Prophet (pbuh). For such men, having a scholar as a wife was one of the greatest blessings in this world and a source of respect and honor.The very first scholar mentioned in the history, Fatimah Bint Al-Mundhir Bin Al-Zubayr Bin Al-‘Awwam, granddaughter of Asma Bint Abi Bakr, illustrates this point.

A prominent Ta’biyah (from the generation succeeding the Prophet’s Companions) and jurist, she was married to her cousin, Hisham Bin ‘Urwah Bin Al-Zubayr. Interestingly, Fatimah learnt more from Asma Bint Abi Bakr than her cousin, and so, he would memorize narrations from his wife, before passing them on to his students who included scholars like Imam Abu Hanifah, Imam Malik, Shu’bah and Sufyan Ath-Thawri. Thus, there is a whole line of scholars who learnt Ahadith which are included in Sahih Al-Bukhari and Sahih Muslim on her authority, led by her own husband. Ummul muminin our mother Ayesha (ra) was the teacher of thousands of scholars.

Maryam Bint Jahsh, a scholar of classical Arabic helped her husband, the Yemeni scholar Jamal Al-Deen ‘Ali Bin Abee’l-Fawaris Al-Hamdani resolve a debate with members of the Murji’ sect; while Al-Mutahhar Bin Muhammad who was married to the famous Mujtahidah Fatimah Bint Yahya used to consult her on juristic matters while she sat behind a curtain, such that when he came up with the answer, his students would say: ‘This is not from you. This is from behind the curtain!’

The husband of Sa’eed Bint Al-Musayyib’s daughter, who brought ‘the knowledge of Sa’eed’ to her husband and taught him right from the first day of her marriage, famously praised his wife: “She was among the most beautiful people, and most expert of those who know the Book of Allah by heart, and most knowledgeable of the Sunnah of the Prophet (peace be upon him) and most aware of the right of the husband.”

Many of the ignorant people I have seen in my life , stopped wives education while they were brilliant. This is a kind of sickness. A muslim lady can do everything within the hijab. If anyone fear Allah swt , he cannot make fraud with her husband. The more mothers will be educated , the more learned generation will be produced.

What is it that stops us from raising women like these, who will be assets to their families and communities and continue to benefit the cause of Islam for centuries?

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