Woman leads Muslim prayer service in Toronto

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Re: Woman leads Muslim prayer service in Toronto

@Sadiyah

Here’s a detailed response that I came across that is worth reading carefully:

… With regard to the evidence presented by those who refer to the reports which say that the Prophet (peace and blessings of Allaah be upon him) gave Umm Waraqah permission to led her household in prayer (narrated by Abu Dawood, 591), they say that she used to lead the people of her house in prayer, among whom were men and boys. The scholars have given several answers to that:

1- The hadeeth is da’eef (weak).

Al-Haafiz said in al-Talkhees (p. 121): Its isnaad includes ‘Abd al-Rahmaan ibn Khallaad who is unknown. End quote.

this doesn’t suffice to show that the hadith is weak since there’s at least one other chain of transmission for Umm Waraqah’s report (in Sunan Abu Dawud and a number of other hadith collections) that doesn’t contain the aforementioned Abd al Rahman ibn Khallad…