Gendering the Hadith Tradition : Recentring the Authority of Aisha, Mother of the Believers

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Gendering the ḤadīthTradition: Recentring the Authority of Aisha, Mother of the Believers
Copyright
Dedication
Acknowledgements
Preface
Notes on Transliteration, Abbreviations, and Dates
	Transliteration
	Abbreviations
	Dates
Contents
Introduction
	The Vision
	The Literature
	Resisting Labels: On Positionality
	Outline of the Book
1: The Woman, the Man, the Text
	Aisha bint Abū Bakr
	Reconstructions of Aisha
	Aisha’s Age at Marriage to the Prophet Muḥammad
	The Slander against Aisha
	The Battle of the Camel: The Fitnah
	Aisha and the Construct of Muslimah Piety
	Introducing the Author: Imām al-Zarkashī
	Introducing the Text, al-Ijābali-Īrādimā Istadraktahu Aishaʿ Alā al-Ṣaḥābah—TheCorrective: Aisha’s Rectification of the Companions
		Al-Ijāba,the Manuscript
		Al-Ijāba,the Text
2: The Classical Ḥadīth Tradition and Its Canonization
	The Classical Ḥadīth Tradition and the Science of Impugnment and Validation of Narrators
	The Principles of Impugnment and Validation (al-Jarḥwa al-Taʿdīl) in Ḥadīth
	A Brief History of the Science of Impugnment
	Canonization
	Canon as Canon I and Canon II
	Ḥadīth Canon Reconceptualized
3: Thinking Translation
	Translating the Ḥadīth
	Selecting the Text
4: Aisha the Jurist
	A Brief History of Law (Fiqh)
	Aisha and the Legal Tradition
	Aisha’s Responses to ʿUmar b. al-Khatṭạ̄b
		Impugnment Due to Imaginary Indulgence (wahm)
		Aisha’s Corrective with Reference to the Quran to Support Her Stance
		Ḥadīth 1
		Ḥadīth 7
	Aisha’s Corrective Due to Her Superior Knowledge of the Sunnah
		Ḥadīth 2
		Ḥadīth 3
		Ḥadīth 4
	Aisha’s Responses to ʿAbdullah b. ʿAbbās
		Aisha’s Corrective Due to Her Superior Knowledge of the Sunnah
			Ḥadīth 1
			Ḥadīth 7
	Aisha’s Corrective with Reference to the Quran to Support Her Stance
		Ḥadīth 6
		Ḥadīth 8
	Aisha’s Responses to ʿAbdullah b. ʿUmar
		Impugnment Due to Bad Memory (Sū’al-Ḥifdh)
		Ḥadīth 1
		Ḥadīth 3
		Ḥadīth 7
		Ḥadīth 8
		Ḥadīth 9
	Aisha’s Corrective with Reference to the Sunnah to Support Her Stance
		Ḥadīth 2
		Ḥadīth 6
	Aisha’s Response to ʿAbdullah b. ʿAmr b. al-ʿĀṣ Impugnment Due to Carelessness (Ghafla)
		Ḥadīth 1
	Aisha’s Response to Abū Saʿīd al-Khudrī
	Impugnment Due to Opposition from Reliable Authorities (Mukhālif al-Thiqāt)
	Aisha’s Response to Zayd b. Thābit
	Impugnment Due to Opposition from Reliable Authorities (Mukhālif al-Thiqāt)
	Shaybah b. ʿUthmān’s Consulting Aisha
	The Emergent Juristic Framework of Aisha
5: Aisha the Ḥadīth Master
	The Case of Abū Hurayra
	Aisha’s Critique of Abū Hurayra
		Impugnment Due to Bad Memory (Sū’al-Ḥifdh)
		Ḥadīth 1
		Ḥadīth 2
		Ḥadīth 4
		Ḥadīth 8
	Impugnment Due to Carelessness in Narrating Prophetic Traditions (Ghafla)
		Ḥadīth 3
		Ḥadīth 5
		Ḥadīth 6
		Ḥadīth 9
	Impugnment Due to Opposition from Reliable Authorities (Mukhālif al-Thiqāt)
		Ḥadīth 7
		Ḥadīth 10
		Ḥadīth 11
6: Aisha the Compassionate
	Aisha’s Response to Faṭima bint Qayṣ
	An Ethic of Care as Ḥadīth Methodology
	Aisha’s Intervention as an Ethic of Care
7: Aisha and the Ḥadīth Tradition An Emergent Methodology
	The Criteria
		1. Measuring Ḥadīth Traditions against the Quran
		2. Measuring Ḥadīth Traditions against the Prophetic Practise (Sunnah) and Other Prophetic Traditions Known to Aisha
		3. Measuring Ḥadīth Traditions against Her Own Reason and Intellect
		4. Upholding an Ethic of Care towards the Muslim Community
	The Nomenclature: Muṣtạlaḥ of Aisha
Conclusion
	The Past and the Present
	The Future
Appendix: Selected Translation of al-Ijābali-Īrādimā Istadrakathu Aisha ʿAlā al Ṣahāba
	Aisha’s Responses to ʿUmar b. al-Khatṭạ̄b
		Ḥadīth 1
		Ḥadīth 2
		Ḥadīth 3
		Ḥadīth 4
		Ḥadīth 7
	Aisha’s Responses to ʿAbdullah b. ʿAbbās
		Ḥadīth 1
		Ḥadīth 6
		Ḥadīth 7
		Ḥadīth 8
	Aisha’s Responses to ʿAbdullah b. ʿUmar
		Ḥadīth 1
		Ḥadīth 2
		Ḥadīth 3
		Ḥadīth 6
		Ḥadīth 7
		Ḥadīth 8
		Ḥadīth 9
	Aisha’s Response to ʿAbdullah b. ʿAmr b. al-ʿĀṣ
		Ḥadīth 1
		Aisha’s Response to Abū Saʿīd al-Khudrī
		Aisha’s Response to Zayd b. Thābit
		Shaybah b. ʿUthmān’s Consulting Aisha
	Aisha’s Response to Abū Hurayra
		Ḥadīth 1
		Ḥadīth 2
		Ḥadīth 3
		Ḥadīth 4
		Ḥadīth 5
		Ḥadīth 6
		Ḥadīth 7
		Ḥadīth 8
		Ḥadīth 9
		Ḥadīth 10
		Ḥadīth 11
Bibliography
	English References
	Arabic References
Index