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Muhammad and child marriage: | Muhammad and child marriage: | ||
{{Quote|{{Muslim| | {{Quote|{{Muslim||1422b|reference}}|A'isha (Allah be pleased with her) reported: Allah's Apostle (Mohammad) married me when I was six years old, and I was admitted to his house when I was nine years old.}} | ||
Many Muslim clerics in modern times for this reason have opposed (though some have supported) the raising of the age of marriage in most Muslim countries to 16 or 18 for girls.<ref>Büchler, A. and Schlatter, C. (2013) [https://www.zora.uzh.ch/id/eprint/78204/ Marriage age in islamic and contemporary muslim family laws. A comparative survey] Journal of Islamic and Middle Eastern Law (EJIMEL), 1(2):37-74.</ref> | Many Muslim clerics in modern times for this reason have opposed (though some have supported) the raising of the age of marriage in most Muslim countries to 16 or 18 for girls.<ref>Büchler, A. and Schlatter, C. (2013) [https://www.zora.uzh.ch/id/eprint/78204/ Marriage age in islamic and contemporary muslim family laws. A comparative survey] Journal of Islamic and Middle Eastern Law (EJIMEL), 1(2):37-74.</ref> | ||
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Muhammad and domestic violence against women: | Muhammad and domestic violence against women: | ||
{{Quote|{{Muslim| | {{Quote|{{Muslim||974b|reference}}| Aisha: I said, Messenger of Allah, may my father and mother be ransom for you, and then I told him (the whole story). He said: Was it the darkness (of your shadow) that I saw in front of me? I said: Yes. He struck me on the chest which caused me pain.}} | ||
To this day, Islamic religious scholars by and large continue to endorse the beating of disobedient wives by their husbands (with limitations, though likely ineffectual), and this is not seen as a crime in the laws of most Muslim countries. | To this day, Islamic religious scholars by and large continue to endorse the beating of disobedient wives by their husbands (with limitations, though likely ineffectual), and this is not seen as a crime in the laws of most Muslim countries. | ||
In contemporary discourse modern Muslims who wish to live and practice their faith in accordance with modern norms of behavior often condemn such actions as barbaric, and often seek to invoke Muhammad's cultural context to explain them. The doctrine of Uswa Hasana, however, makes this argument exceedingly difficult, especially when the argument is between Muslims who wish to follow modern mores and traditionalist Muslims who wish to hew to the classical understanding of the canonical Islamic sources. To take one example, Muhammad himself is claimed to have said: “A man should not be asked why he beats his wife.”<ref>{{Ibn Majah||3|9|1986}} (graded Hasan, "good", by Dar-us-Salam, though da'if "weak" by al-Albani). [https://web.archive.org/web/20250306231801/https://sunnah.com/ibnmajah:1986 Grading information on sunnah.com (archive)] before it was removed. Similarly, "A man will not be asked as to why he beat his wife." {{Abu Dawud| | In contemporary discourse modern Muslims who wish to live and practice their faith in accordance with modern norms of behavior often condemn such actions as barbaric, and often seek to invoke Muhammad's cultural context to explain them. The doctrine of Uswa Hasana, however, makes this argument exceedingly difficult, especially when the argument is between Muslims who wish to follow modern mores and traditionalist Muslims who wish to hew to the classical understanding of the canonical Islamic sources. To take one example, Muhammad himself is claimed to have said: “A man should not be asked why he beats his wife.”<ref>{{Ibn Majah||3|9|1986}} (graded Hasan, "good", by Dar-us-Salam, though da'if "weak" by al-Albani). [https://web.archive.org/web/20250306231801/https://sunnah.com/ibnmajah:1986 Grading information on sunnah.com (archive)] before it was removed. Similarly, "A man will not be asked as to why he beat his wife." {{Abu Dawud||2147|darussalam}}, though this is graded da'if, "weak" authenticity by al-Albani.</ref> | ||
==Challenges to Uswa Hasana from Within the Islamic Tradition== | ==Challenges to Uswa Hasana from Within the Islamic Tradition== | ||