Karima bint Ahmad bin Muhammad bin Hatim al-Marwaziyya (969-1069) was an 11th-century scholar of hadith. [1] [2] [3] [4]
Biography
Karima was born in the village of Kushmihan near Merv. She later settled in Mecca. [2]
Karima was an authority on Sahih al-Bukhari. She taught the text of al-Bukhari to students and her scholarship and teaching was widely respected. [1] She was known as the "musnida of the sacred precinct." [2] Thirty-nine men and one woman transmitted material on her authority. [2] Karima was known for her prestigious isnad. Her teaching and scholarship was praised by Abu Dharr of Herat. [2] [5]
Al-Khatib al-Baghdadi and Abu al-Ghana’im al-Nursi narrated from her. [1]
By the end of her life, she was renowned as a teacher and scholar. [2] She was a Hanafi. [6] Karima never married and was celibate and ascetic. [2] [7] Louis Massingon connected her to the women's futuwwa movement founded by Khadija al-Jahniyya. This was the female equivalent of the male futuwwa societies that advocated chivalry, morality, and worship. [7]
References
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- ^ a b c d e f g Pavlovitch, Pavel. "Karima bint Ahmad al-Marwaziyya and the Transmission of al-Bukhari's Sahih". Oriental Languages and Civilizations.
- ^ Cortese, Delia (2006-01-06). Women and the Fatimids in the World of Islam. Edinburgh University Press. ISBN 978-0-7486-2629-8.
- ^ Pavlovitch, Pavel (2021-03-01), "Karīma bt. Aḥmad al-Marwaziyya", Encyclopaedia of Islam, THREE, Brill, retrieved 2022-05-31
- ^ Goldziher, Ignác (1967-01-01). Muslim Studies, Vol. 1. SUNY Press. ISBN 978-0-87395-234-7.
- ^ Brown, Jonathan (2007-09-30). The Canonization of al-Bukhārī and Muslim: The Formation and Function of the Sunnī Ḥadīth Canon. BRILL. ISBN 978-90-474-2034-7.
- ^ a b Schimmel, Annmarie (25 February 2003). My Soul is a Woman: The Feminine in Islam. Continuum. p. 44. ISBN 9780826414441.