To what extent is the hadith "A people who entrust their affairs to a woman will never prosper" authentic, and what is the wisdom behind adopting it despite it not being mutawatir and its narrator having received a legal punishment?
The one who challenges the , "Never will a people who entrust their affairs to a woman succeed," erred because he contradicted established principles, including:
- Rejecting a hadith narrated by Abu Bakra despite the scholars' acceptance of his narration and the justice of all the Companions. - Weakening a hadith in al-Bukhari, which the Ummah has unanimously accepted.
The answer to this misconception depends on differentiating between those who are subjected to the legal punishment for slander (qadhf):
- If a person's slander was in the form of a testimony, this does not invalidate his trustworthiness, and his narration is accepted, just as people narrated from Abu Bakra. - If a person's slander was not in the form of a testimony, his narration is rejected until he repents.
As for the objector's argument that the hadith is not mutawatir (mass-transmitted), it is incorrect, because singular narrations (khabar al-wahid) establish beliefs and rulings. The testimony narrated by Al-Tabarani through the route of Abd al-Rahman ibn Amr ibn Jabalah should not be celebrated because he is accused of lying.
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