Are These Hadith About Women’s Movement and Building Homes Authentic?

Answered by Mawlana Ilyas Patel

Question

Are these hadith authentic (sahih)? Can you please provide a full chain of narrators?

• It was narrated from Ibn ‘Umar (Allah be pleased with them both) in marfu’ form, “Women do not have a share in leaving (the home) except in (times of) need.” Tabrani transmitted it as (mentioned) in Kanz al-‘Ummal (8:263).
• Also, one who constructs more houses than he actually needs would carry them on his back in hereafter.

Answer

In the Name of Allah, the Most Merciful and Compassionate.

I pray you are in good faith and health. Thank you for your question.

Hadith One

It was narrated from Ibn ‘Umar (Allah be pleased with them both) in marfu’ form, “Women do not have a share in leaving (the home) except in (times of) need.” Tabrani transmitted it as (mentioned) in Kanz al-‘Ummal.

Haythami says Siwar Ibn Mus‘ab, who is one of the narrator in the chain of this hadith. It is considered a discarded and abandoned report (Matruk al-hadith).

Matruk is that which is narrated by a single narrator who is suspected of lying in hadith, or who is a flagrant sinner in word or deed, or who is greatly inattentive or excessively prone to make mistakes. Thus, everyone whom the scholars of hadith accuse of lying, flagrant sin, great inattentiveness, or mistakes, their narrations are Matruk.

The ruling of a Matruk hadith is that it cannot be considered due to its severe weakness and cannot serve as proof, either independently or as a corroborative narration. [‘Abdullah Sirajuddin, Sharh al-Bayquniyya]

Hadith Two

The hadith with the above wording cannot be found. However, a similar type is shared with you.

Haritha Ibn Mudarrib said, “We went to visit Khabbab, who had himself cauterized in seven places on his body. He said: ‘I have been ill for so long, and if it was not that I heard the Messenger of Allah (Allah bless him and give him peace) saying: “None of you should wish for death” then I would have wished for it, and he said: “A man is rewarded for (all of) his spending except for the dust” – or he said – “in the building.”

This hadith is graded as good and authentic.

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Wassalam,
[Mawlana] Ilyas Patel
Checked and Approved by Shaykh Abdul-Rahim Reasat

Mawlana Ilyas Patel has received traditional education in various countries. He started his schooling in the UK and completed his hifz of the Quran in India. After that, he joined an Islamic seminary in the UK, where he studied secular and Aalimiyya sciences. Later, he traveled to Karachi, Pakistan, and other Middle Eastern countries to further his education. Mawlana has served as an Imam in the Republic of Ireland for several years and taught the Quran and other Islamic sciences to both children and adults. He also worked as a teacher and librarian at a local Islamic seminary in the UK for 12 years. Presently, he lives in the UK with his wife and is interested in books and gardening.