Pioneer Women In Islam- Sh.Ahmed Kutty & Tayyibah Taylor

-Umm Salamah: 5th wife of Rasuallah (saw)
-She was married to Abduallah and had 4 children
-Umm Salamah and her husband immigrated to Abyssina due to the persecution they suffered.
-She was the first woman to move in the name of Islam.
-They came back and the persecution went on so they decided to go to Madinah.
-The Husband went to Madinah without Umm Salamah and his son.
-After a year she was allowed to go to Madinah with her son.
-After the reunion with her husband, she swore she would never re-marry but the husband said no and to instead make dua that she may get a better husband.
-The husband was later killed in a battle.
-Abu Bakr, Umar Al-Khattab both proposed to her but she refused.
-The Prophet (saw) proposed to her and she said but she was a jealous woman. The Prophet then said he would pray to Allah that he may take away the jealousy. She accepted the proposal.

-A servant girl was brushing Umm Salamah's hair when the Prophet (saw) said "O you people" and she told her to stop brushing. The servant said he was only addressing the men. But Umm Salamah said that she too was included under "people"

-Umm Salamah asked about women in the Quran and how only men were mentioned in the Quran.

-Surah Al-Azhab, Verse 35

"Verily, the Muslims (those who submit to Allah in Islam) men and women, the believers men and women (who believe in Islamic Monotheism), the men and the women who are obedient (to Allah), the men and women who are truthful (in their speech and deeds), the men and the women who are patient (in performing all the duties which Allah has ordered and in abstaining from all that Allah has forbidden), the men and the women who are humble (before their Lord Allah), the men and the women who give Sadaqat (i.e. Zakat, and alms, etc.), the men and the women who observe Saum (fast) (the obligatory fasting during the month of Ramadan, and the optional Nawafil fasting), the men and the women who guard their chastity (from illegal sexual acts) and the men and the women who remember Allah much with their hearts and tongues (while sitting, standing, lying, etc. for more than 300 times extra over the remembrance of Allah during the five compulsory congregational prayers) or praying extra additional Nawafil prayers of night in the last part of night, etc.) Allah has prepared for them forgiveness and a great reward (i.e. Paradise)."

-Specfically mentions the women and men for their good deeds. A tribute to Umm Salamah.

-After Ayesha (RA) Umm Salamah had the second number of hadiths recorded.

-Umm Salamah shows that it is not wrong to disagree as long as it falls within our integrity.

Ahmed Kutty

-Women should join men to better help out the ummah.
-Great religions debated if a woman even had a soul.
-If anyone has two daughters, educated them and cared for them then they shall recieve Jannah.
-There are 2500 women scholars, poets etc.
-Khadijah (RA) was a mentor to the Prophet Muhammad (saw)

Ayesha (RA)

- She was brought up in the household of the Prophet.
- A role model for both men and women.
- The revelation from Jibreel came to Rasuallah (saw) only when he was with Ayesha (RA)
- No man has come to women who lied in transmission of hadiths.
- More hadiths are reported by Ayesha then any other woman because she was trained by Rasuallah (saw)
-nature of Ayesha was very rational and had no patience of irrational explanations of the Quran.
-She would take widoes of her brothers to Hajj and umrah.