MUSLIMAH
- ATTRIBUTES OF BELIEVING WOMEN:
•	BELIEVES IN ALLAH MESSENGER LAST DAY
•	BELIEVES IN PILLARS OF IMAN
•	BELIVES IN ISLAM
•	IF WOMAN PRAYS HER 5, FASTS HER MONTH, AND PRESERVES CHASTITY AND OBEYS HUSBAND SHE CAN ENTER JANNAH

RAISING CHILDEREN
GUIDANCE IS OF TWO TYPES:
- guidance from Allah
- the guidance of teaching - this is for every muslim we have to guide encourage them but Allah can only do the first one. so we have to teach the childeren and ask Allah to guide them.

inorder to raise righteous childeren:
- choose a righteous spouse, 
- makind dua for the childeren
-childeren have the correct aqeedah

FIQH ISSUES PERTAINING TO WOMEN:
-	Issues pertaining to purification
o	First issue: if a woman period ends during the time of asr or during time of isha then she has to pray duhr and asr, if it ends at isha then she has to also pray magrib and then isha
•	This is from opinion of abdullah ibn abbas and abdurahman ibn auf, both commanded woman to pray prayer that’s before it. 
•	If it finishes an hour before fajr or after fajr she has to pray fajr that’s it.

o	Permissable to touch mushaf: if she needs to like she is a teacher, learning to memorise, or fears she will forget the quran if she doesn’t touch within them days then its permissable, if she uses a glove its okay, madhab of ibn hazam and malikiyyah.
o	Three types of blood a woman experiences: 
•	Dhammul haydh
•	 1) menses, lasts for about 6-7 days every woman knows how long it lasts, has a certain smell and distinct colour
o	Woman can experience it longer than usually, or it becomes irregular.
o	Woman cannot pray, fast, or having marital relations
•	Dhammul nifaas 
•	2) post natal bleeding, after birth 40 days after birth, upto a month. 
•	Dhammus istihadha 
•	3) type of illness, abnormal bleeding.
o	She has to pray but has to make wudhu at the time of every salah and once she does she can start prayer even if there is blood she can still carry on. Important thing is she makes wudhu before every prayer
o	she has to fast, she can have marital relations
o	usually thin, red and doesn’t have a smell of it.
o	If experiences irregular bleeding:
•	Mu’tadah- has experienced haydh knows amount days used to last for, if this woman experiences she should go by normal amount of days her periods used to last for but if it goes irregular then just count the regular days as normal then after she has ghusl and carries on as normal, anything after that is carried on as abnormal. 
•	Hadith evidence- fatima asked muhommad, I experience abnormal bleeding should I leave the salah, prophet replied, its only a blood vessel however you should leave the salah for amount of days you usually leave salah then do ghusl and pray as you would.
•	Mubtadah- shes never experienced menses before, so starts irregular and cant go back to previous normal days it lasts for or she forgotten amount of days it can be, can happen if a woman takes meds that delays or prevents haydh. Then what she should do is look at this type of blood, usually dark brown, has a smell and its thick. if the blood that comes out is from haydh then consider those days as hayd, however if it is istihada characteristics then she should consider it to be continuing wudhu salah etc.
•	Doesn’t have a normal period span or cant differentiate the types of blood, cant remember the days. She should count the normal customary days the women in the community have like normally 6-7 days. Then after perform ghusl and carry on with ibadat.
•	If you change nappies it doesn’t nullify wudhu, you can just wash hands and do wudhu.
•	If theres impurity or filth on the garments she is wearing during salah, if she able to take off or remove the garment without showing the body, she can remove it. If the nijas is on bottom layer she should keep it on, if its on outer layer and it doesn’t expose awrah she can remove it. If she realises after salah she doesn’t need to repeat just make sure she avoids it next time. 
•	Hadith of prophet having filth on sandals, and the messenger removed footwear whilst praying. Showing he didn’t repeat the rakats.
•	Wiping over the khimar- permissable to wipe over khimar if it is difficult to remove the hijab, just like the men can wipe over their imama (turban) the prophet did so. Opinion of umm salamah and hasan al basri from madhab of imam ahmed and also sheikh islam taymiyyah
-	Issues pertaining to salah
•	The awrah of muslim woman according to salah:
•	Not right in muslim to pray in pjamas, we should pray in best clothes we have, we are standing infront of Allah. 
•	Awrah is whole body minus face and hands.
o	Consensus of scholars if shes praying in public space where there is other men around she should cover face
o	But at home she should uncover face and hands.
o	If the feet is shown the bottom of it during sujood is apparent that is fine.
•	Issue to do with time:
•	Woman to pray salah at earliest time.
o	Best of actions is praying salah at its correct time- hadith
•	Salatul isha- is ONLY VALID UP UNTIL HALFWAY THROUGH THE NIGHT
o	How to calculate middle of night is by calculating the time sun sets- beginning of magrib up until time of fajr then half it then that is middle of night. 

-	Issues pertaining to zakat
o	The zakat on gold that women use to beautify them selves. And only use for weddings or special occasions, whether they wear it or not. is it wajib to pay zakat on these, yes, if it reaches threshold of 85g of gold then its wajib to pay zakah. She pays the zakah by weighing it if it reaches nisaab, so she would look at price of current gold, and then if it reaches the nisaab then pay the 2.5 its required to pay/ divide by 40%. 
•	Allah – warns those who haud gold and silver and not pay any part of it will receive severe punishment, in quran. 
•	Messenger says in hadith there is not a person who has gold and silver that doesn’t pay its correct due except they are going to be punished with the gold they hauded in the dunya. 
•	A woman came to the messenger and daughter was with her and with it was two thick gold bracelets, the prophet said do you pay zakah with that, she said no, she said will you be happy that Allah will punish you with having fire as bracelets, then she said no and threw them to the prophet and said this is for Allah and the messenger.
•	If her gold is less then she doesn’t have to combine with other peoples like sister, then thinks she has to pay it, but if it is a gold of one person then she combines all of it then pays accordingly.
-	Issues pertaining to fasting
o	Sisters make up amount of days before ramadan. Bcs if ramadan starts she cant make it up during but if she does after ramadan she has to feed a poor person as a expiation for the poor person for however many fasts she missed. You fast and also feed poor person after if its delayed.
o	What should the pregnant and breast feeding woman do if not able to fast for fear for her life and childeren being malnourished rather it can be haram for them to fast, what they should do is feed a poor person ( feed on a daily basis or split into 10, first ten days then so on so forth, or can feed 30 people at once when ramadan finishes, but they cannot pay in advance before ramadan as its carrying out a wajib which hasn’t become wajib yet) for every day they missed during ramadan and they do not need to make up the fasts after the month of ramadan. This is the opinion of abdullah ibn abbas, and abdullah ibn umar. – mughni 3/37
o	BUT opinion of imam shafii and imam ahmed is if they fear for them selves then make up fasts only but if they fear for them selves n their baby then make up fasts and feed one poor person a day. Abu hanifahs view was fasts only and this is also view of ali ibn abu talib. 
o	The view of feeding poor only is weak view rather they have to makeup fasts only( as that’s the same opinion for ill and travelling) when able to do so- quran 2:184 + majmu fatawa 15/227
-	Issues pertaining to nikkah
o	Importance of maintaining and having a guardian when getting married
•	Prophet said theres no nikkah without permission of wali. Paternal/ brother. If theres a father it has to be the father, if no father, then brother, if not brother then uncle, then goes to son etc. All in agreement except for hanafiyyah that having a wali is a condition.
•	The woman cannot marry her self off or allow marriage to another woman without a wali
o	Not permissable for a muslim woman to marry a muslim man.
•	Until they believe in Allah.
•	If it happens its not a marriage counts as fornication.

WOMEN SCHOLARS: 
Fatima bint muhammadin samarqandi, his father was muhammad ibn ahmed as samarqandi (big scholar of hanafi fiqh) samarqand is a old muslim area. Fatima was born in turkistan 5th ce after HIJRAH. In city of KASAAN. Highly intelligent woman, brave woman as well.
Badi’I is us sanai’ fi tarteeb ash shariah (one of biggest hanafi books)
Zaynab bint kamal- teacher of hadith from damisqh.