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Status of Women in Islam
Ibn Sa’ad in his book ‘AI-Tabaqat al-Kubra’ has recorded
a great number of women who transmitted traditions
(Ahadith) from Prophet Mohammad. By the time of the
Prophet’s death, there were many women scholars.
Muslim women used to accompany the army to the war
fronts and help in nursing the wounded.
Nasibah bint K’ab took part in battles alongside the
Prophet as a surgeon, and in the famous battle of Ohod
when she noticed that the Prophet was surrounded by
the enemy she rushed towards the Prophet to defend him
and joined in the battle, fighting with a sword and shooting
arrows until she was heavily wounded. During the battle of
Yamamah she fought until she lost her hand.
Zeinab bint Ali, the heroic sister of Imam al-Husain,
played a key role on the stage of political events of the
Islamic State. Her name was connected with Islamic and
human history in the tragedy of the Battle of Karbala,
which historians unanimously agreed was one of the most
decisive and important battles in Islamic history.
Certainly, no one ignored the roles she played in this
tragedy and some of them had called her ‘The heroine
of Karbala’ because she was the first lady to appear in
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