In March Muhammad issued his first order to kill a woman. At other times he actually advocated for or allowed the killing of women and children.
Īnd when the actions of Muhammad are examined chronologically, one finds that instead of it being a general, all-encompassing prohibition issued by Muhammad, and therefore an established part of Islamic doctrine, the prohibition against the killing of women and children was a specific, situational prohibition based on Muhammad’s judgment at the time. A man strangled her until she died, and the Messenger of Allah declared that no recompense was payable for her blood. It was narrated from ‘Ali that a Jewish woman used to revile and disparage the Prophet.She used to revile you and disparage you, and I told her not to do it, but she did not stop…Last night she started to revile you and disparage you, and I took a dagger and placed it on her stomach and I pressed on it until I killed her.’ The Prophet said: ‘Bear witness that no retaliation is due for her blood.’” He said: ‘O Messenger of Allah, I am the one who did it. “Ibn ‘Abbas told us that a blind man had a female slave…who reviled the Prophet and disparaged him, and he told her not to do that, but she did not stop…One night she started to disparage and revile the Prophet, so he took a dagger and put it in her stomach and pressed on it and killed her…The next morning mention of that was made to the Prophet and he assembled the people and said: ‘By Allah, I adjure the man who did this, to stand up.’ The blind man stood up…and he came and sat before the Prophet.However, Muhammad never issued such a sweeping prohibition.įor example, when it came to women criticizing him, Muhammad had no problem with such women being killed:
And the second hadith states that Muhammad prohibited the general killing of women and children. So according to the first hadith, whenever Muhammad appointed anyone to lead a Muslim army or detachment, he would issue an order that children were not to be killed. Ibn ‘Umar narrated that a woman was found killed in one of the expeditions of the Messenger of Allah, so the Messenger of Allah rebuked that, and he prohibited killing women and children. Make a holy war… do not kill the children. Fight against those who disbelieve in Allah. He would say: Fight in the name of Allah and in the way of Allah. Buraid through his father that when the Messenger of Allah (may peace be upon him) appointed anyone as leader of an army or detachment he would especially exhort him to fear Allah and to be good to the Muslims who were with him. There are two popular hadiths that are often used to support this claim: It is commonly claimed that Muhammad had issued a general prohibition against the killing of women and children, and that this was established Islamic Doctrine.
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