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How sound is the Hadith: "Women overcome every honorable person, and none but the ignoble can overcome them"?

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The hadith in question was narrated by Ibn Asakir from the tradition of Ali ibn Abi Talib (may Allah be pleased with him), and its wording is: "The best of you is the best to his family, and I am the best of you to my family. None honors women except a generous one, and none insults them except a wicked one." Sheikh Al-Albani judged this hadith to be fabricated (mawdu').

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