Is the statement that the narration of a female Companion (other than the Mothers of the Believers) from the Messenger of Allah, may Allah’s prayers and peace be upon him, is unreliable or not a proof, due to the non-acceptance of a woman’s testimony alone, correct, despite the existence of such narrations in the authentic books of Hadith?

It suffices to realize the falsehood of the claim that the narrations of female Companions, other than the Mothers of the Believers, are not accepted, by observing that the Imams of Hadith have received their narrations with acceptance. Sahih al-Bukhari includes several hadiths narrated by female Companions who were not Mothers of the Believers. The argument to reject their narrations, based on the premise that the testimony of a single woman is not relied upon, is incorrect; because scholars have differentiated between testimony (shahadah) and narration (riwayah). Narration, its ruling applies broadly to the narrator and others, and does not require a specific number or male gender. Whereas testimony pertains specifically to the subject of testimony and requires precaution in terms of number and male gender. Ibn al-Qayyim and Shaykh Abd al-Kareem al-Khudayr have mentioned this distinction, confirming that the narration of a woman is accepted by consensus.