Wednesday, 16 December 2015

Everyone is more knowledgeable than Umar!

In Sunan Kubra, Baihaqi has narrated from Shobi that Umar delivered a speech and after divine praise and glorification, said:

 “Do not fix higher amounts as dowers and if I hear that a woman has taken dower more than the dower of the wives of Prophet, I will recover it from her and deposit it in Public Treasury.”

Then he came down from the pulpit. A Quraish lady asked:

“O chief of believers, is the Book of Allah more worthy to be followed or your statement?”

He replied: “The Book of Allah, what do you imply?” She said: “You prohibited heavy dowers, whereas Almighty Allah says in Quran:

“And you have given one of them a heap of gold, then take not from it anything.” (Surah Nisa 4:20)

Umar said twice or thrice: “Everyone is more learned than Umar,”

(Sunan Kubra, 7:233; Kanzul Ummaal, 8:298 [16/536, H. 45796])

and according to another version, he said: “Everyone, except Umar is most learned, even ladies in seclusion.” Are you not amazed at an Imam, who makes a mistake and a woman, who rectifies him?

(Sharh Nahjul Balagha, Ibne Abil Hadeed, 1:61 & 3:96 [1/182, Sermon 3:12/17])

It is mentioned in the words of Khazin that: “A woman, who states the right thing and a ruler, who commits a mistake.”
(Tafseer Khazin, 1:353 [1/339])


And in the words of Razi in his book of Arbaeen: “All people are more learned than Umar, even ladies at home.”
(Al-Arbaeen, Razi, 467)


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