Hadith and Sira
Sahih Bukhari (72:715)
– A woman came to Muhammad and begged her to stop her husband from beating her. Her skin was bruised so badly that it is described as being “greener” than the green veil she was wearing. Muhammad did
not
admonish her husband, but instead ordered her to return to him and submit to his sexual desires.
Sahih Bukhari (72:715)
–
“Aisha said, ‘I have not seen any woman suffering as much as the believing women‘”
Muhammad’s own wife complained of the abuse that the women of her religion suffered relative to other women.
Sahih Muslim (4:2127)
– Muhammad struck his favorite wife, Aisha, in the chest one evening when she left the house without his permission. Aisha narrates,
“He struck me on the chest which caused me pain.”
Sahih Muslim (9:3506)
– Muhammad’s fathers-in-law (Abu Bakr and Umar) amused him by
slapping
his wives (Aisha and Hafsa) for annoying him. According to the Hadith, the prophet of Islam laughed upon hearing this.
Abu Dawud (2141)
–
“Iyas bin ‘Abd Allah bin Abi Dhubab reported the Apostle of Allah (may peace be upon him) as saying: Do not beat Allah’s handmaidens, but when ‘Umar came to the Apostle of Allah (may peace be upon him) and said: Women have become emboldened towards their husbands, he (the Prophet) gave permission to beat them.“
At first, Muhammad forbade men from beating their wives, but he rescinded this once it was reported that women were becoming emboldened toward their husbands. Beatings in a Muslim marriage are sometimes necessary to keep women in their place.
Abu Dawud (2142)
–
“The Prophet (peace be upon him) said: A man will not be asked as to why he beat his wife.”
The authenticity of this verse is characterized as
daif
(weak), however, a similar verse from Sunan Ibn Majah 3:9:1986 is said to be
hasan
(sufficient).
Abu Dawud (2126)
–
“A man from the Ansar called Basrah said: ‘I married a virgin woman in her veil. When I entered upon her, I found her pregnant. (I mentioned this to the Prophet).’ The Prophet (peace_be_upon_him) said: ‘She will get the dower, for you made her vagina lawful for you. The child will be your slave. When she has begotten (a child), flog her'”
A Muslim thinks he is getting a virgin, then finds out that she is pregnant. Muhammad tells him to treat the woman as a sex slave and then flog her after she delivers the child.Ibn Ishaq/Hisham 969 – Requires that a married woman be
“put in a separate room and beaten lightly”
if she
“act in a sexual manner toward others.”
According to the Hadith, this can be for an offense as petty as merely being alone with a man to whom she is not related.Kash-shaf (the revealer) of al-Zamkhshari (Vol. 1, p. 525) – [Muhammad said]
“Hang up your scourge where your wife can see it”
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