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THOUGHT OF THE DAY:
Muslim women can gain equality with and even
superiority to men by becoming
SCHOLARS OF ISLAM. That's how it was in the past.
Do you know that the greatest
teacher, scholar and transmitter of
Bukhari's
Sahih was a WOMAN named Karima
the daughter of Ahmed who died in the year 463 of
the Hijra calendar.
[Comment: Khateeb Baghdadi, the historian I
wrote about in the article
rebutting Parvezi fitna against Hadith, was a
STUDENT of Karima bint Ahmed, as
were other top level Islamic scholars of the
time.
The famous scholar Ibn al-Jawzi states (in
Al-Muntazim), in writing of
the events of 463 H, that Karima was from
Kashmehen, a township near the city
of Merv in Central Asia. He describes her as
"very scholarly and virtuous" and
mentions a list of great scholars whom she taught
Hadith.
Another famous scholar, Dhahabi, in his book
Al-‘Ibr, writing of Karima's
passing away in 463 H states that she was living
near
Makka
at that time. He
writes that she was known for her great wisdom
and nobility and a huge number
of people listened to her lessons on Bukhari's
Sahih. Other classical books,
such as Al-Kamil, Al-Bidaya wun-Nihayya, al-Siir,
etc., indicate that she had
an original manuscript of Bukhari's Sahih. She is
described as outspoken,
scholarly, very understanding and active in
worship and good deeds. All these
are male scholars praising a woman scholar. She
was 100 when she passed away.]
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