Questioning the Hadith?
By SuhaibWebb on Islam and Religion from www.suhaibwebb.com
I was wondering if you could talk about how we should deal with hadiths [Prophetic traditions] that seem to be unfair towards women; for example, that the hellfire is full of women, a woman is deficient in intellect, etc. How are we supposed to understand and accept these kinds of statements when they seem to go against the equality of Islam? Couldn’t it be that some misogynistic ideas on the part of the narrators influenced the books of hadith like Bukhari, etc?
