Women Hadith Scholars (2)

21. MALIKAH (d. 820 AH)

Malikah was the daughter of Sharf-ud-Din ibn Abdullah Maqdisi. She was a well known narrator of hadith and spent most of her life teaching people hadith.
Among the famous people to learn from her was Ibn Hajar Askalani (author of the famous commentary on sahih Al-Bukhari - Fath al-Bari); hewas given authority to narrate hadiths which she taught him.

22. UMM UMAR (d. 805 AH)

Umm Umar was the daughter of Taqi-ud-Din Rafe As-Salami. She was a notable scholar of hadith.
She was taught by the best scholars of herday including Abdur Rahim ibn Abu-Al-Yesir. Later she established her own school. She is also one of the scholars who taught Ibn Hajar Askalani.

[Reference: Mashahir-un-Nisa]

23. AMAT-UL-KHALIQUE (d. 920 AH)

Amat was the daughter of Abdul Latif ibn Sadaqa ibn Aws Al Manadi Al Aqabi.
Whilst studying she memorised the Musnad of Imam Ahmad, the Muajjam of Tabrai, the Seerah of Ibn Hisham ad the Minhaj. Amongst her teachers were Jamal-ud-Din Hanbali.
Later she established her own school and helped those who seeked knowledge to seek it.
There were many chief scholars who would only narrate hadith after they heard it from her.
One of her students was shaykh Jalal-ud-Din Suyyuti. Amongt matters she was also a poet, to follow is oneof her couplets:

"It is my destiny, which owns me sometime and forsakes me sometime.
I may commit a mistake but not my destiny should make.
When Allah wills any of His slaves, do a task, he (i.e. a man) holds back his hearing and thinking, though he may be a ma of sagacity, good hearig and watching. He pulls wisdom out of him like hair is removed from butter, till he does the work ad then
his wisdom is restituted so that he could re-start to learn his lesson"

[Reference: Tadhkirah Al-Khawteen]

24. FATIMAH BINT IBRAHIM (d. 741 AH)

Fatimah was a famous chief scholar of the 8th century. She had no equal in learning, excellence, piety and abstinence.

[Reference: Mashahir-un-Nisa]

25. ZAYNAB BINT SULAYMAN

Zaynab was the daughter of Sulayman ibn Ibrahim ibn Rahmat as Shareeh.
She commanded an authority on hadith.
She'd have lessons in Syria, then later moved to Egypt where she spent the rest of her life teaching. Her skill gave her the name 'Mustanadud-Dameshyak' (A lady authorised from Damascus).

[Reference: Mashahir-un-Nisa]

26. ZUMARRAD KHATUN

Zumarrad was the sister of Sultan Salah-ud-Din Ayyubi.
She was known as 'Satt-ush-Sham' (Queen of Syria). She was virtous, appreciative of literacy, knowledgable and generous.
She founded a grad istitution where various faculties for study were established. And she appointed the most leared Scholar of the time, Uthma ibn AbdurRehman ibn Assalah Shehezori as its
head. The school was the best of it's kind in the Islamic world.

[Reference: Dairah-Al-Maaraf]

27. SATT-UL-AHL (d. 703 AH)

Satt was the daughter of Alwan ibn Said ibn Alwa ibn Kamil. She was a distinguished scholar in the seventh century.
She was a native of Balbaq (Iraq) and a follower of the Hanbali school of thought. She reported hadith from Bahaud-Din Maqdisi.

[Reference: Mashahir-un-Nisa]

28. HAMDAH (d. 4th/5th century AH)

Hamdah, a native of Baghdad, was an excellet orator. She gained knowledge from many scholars including Al-Halwani.
She established a school at Bab Al-Martaab in Baghdad, held lectures (dars) and taught hadith and fiqh.
It is said that the eminent scholar Ibn Samaai learnt the art of speech from Hamdah.

[Reference: Tadhkarah al-khawteen]

29. AMAIM (d. 9th century AH)

Amaim was the daughter of Hisan ud-Din ibn Muhammad ibn Ayyub Al-Hussayi.
She was a noted hadith scholar of the 9th century. A number of scholars gained knowledge from her.

[Reference: Mashahir-i-Niswan]

30. Daughter of IMAM TAHAWI

She was a woman of outstanding intellect. She performed as the secretary to her father. He dictated lessons on hadith and fiqh and she would write them down.

One day his daughter was writing down comments on some issues of fiqh pertaining to females including that of the maritial relations. He dictated the words 'When we have [edited to: maritial relations] with women, this has to be done, like taking a bath becomes due, etc...'. She wrote these down, and untentionally
an embarrassed smile reddened her face. When Imam Tahawi saw this, sensing the feelings of embarassment, he felt so overwhelmed that he died on the spot.