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First of all, let me tell you that the justice of Allah Almighty is perfect justice; it does not allow for any kind of partisanship towards the male to the detriment of the female. The Qur'an makes this perfectly clear.
*{If any do deeds of righteousness,— be they male or female — and have faith, they will enter Heaven, and not the least injustice will be done to them}* (An-Nisaa' 4:124)

To put my answer in a framework, I find it necessary to make the following distinctions, especially in the area of women in Islam. There is a difference between:

1. A ‘popular’ narration and an ‘authentic’ narration. 2. ‘Islam’ and ‘Muslims.’ 3. Islamic ‘Shari’ah’ and Islamic ‘madhahib.’ 4. The ‘Scriptures’ and the ‘interpretation of the Scriptures.’

First, there are popular narrations that say that ‘most occupiers of hell are women,’ ‘women are deficient in mind and faith,’ ‘women are crooked,’ ‘your bad omen is in your woman,’ and so on. I can tell you with confidence that all these narration are un-authentic (or ‘weak’), whoever the narrator is and wherever they are narrated and written. Without getting ourselves in much debate and discussing who ‘out-narrates’ who, the reason behind the rejection of such narrations is that they are at odds with the Quran.

Let me take one of these narrations and assess its authenticity, as an example. According to Bukhari, Abu Hurairah, narrated: ‘Your bad omen is in your woman, your animal, and your house.’ However, Bukhari also, in the same chapter, narrated that Aisha, the Prophet’s wife, refused Abu Hurairah’s narration and said that the Prophet (peace be upon him) had said, instead: ‘People during the Days of Ignorance (jahiliyya) used to say that bad omens are in women, animals, and houses.’

In terms of the Science of Hadith, Aisha rejected Abu Hurairah’s narration on the basis of its content (al-matn) rather than its chain of narrators (al-sanad). Abu Hurairah is a great companion, but he simply made a mistake in this narration. Apparently, he did not hear the complete statement, and he thought he did.

These ahadith are not discriminatory in any way, rather they are an added tool fo guidance to the women
Bukhari (Hayd, 6; Zakat, 44) and Muslim (Eeman 122) reported this Hadith in their books. Evaluating the narration coming from Bazzar, Haythami said that it was trustable (sound). (see Majmau’z-zawaid, 3/118).
It will be useful to explain some points regarding the Hadith:
The Prophet said that hadith to encourage women to give sadaqah, not just to blame them.
-Being in majority does not mean that the number of women will be much greater than men in Hell. The judgment will be true even if there are two women more than men in Hell.
-There are two crimes that women did more than men and those crimes increased the amount of women who will go to Hell. One of those crimes: women curse everything without paying much attention to whether they are men, women, children, things or animals. The other is that they are so ungrateful to people who do good deeds and favors, especially to their husbands. Even if they always receive kindness from a man, they can forget about all of those good deeds and favors if they are exposed to only one unpleasant act.
-After we see the conditions of women in today’s world, we think it is easier to understand that Hadith.

The first point to note is that many scholars agree that the Prophet was merely using humor to urge the ladies to donate more.

The number of women can always be more than the number of men. Especially those born towards the end of time on the earth will be women. There are some signs in the narrations about the issue. When the issue considered in the light of things mentioned above, the issue will be clearer.

It was narrated that Jabir ibn ‘Abd-Allah (may Allah be pleased with him) said: “I attended Eid prayers with the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings of Allah be upon him). He started with the prayer before the khutbah (sermon), with no adhan (call to prayer) or iqamah (final call to prayer). Then he stood up, leaning on Bilal (may Allah be pleased with him), speaking of fear of Allah (taqwa) and urging us to obey Him. He preached to the people and reminded them. Then he went over to the women and preached to them and reminded them. Then he said, ‘Give in charity, for you are the majority of the fuel of Hell. A woman with dark cheeks stood up in the midst of the women and said, ‘Why is that, O Messenger of Allah?’ He said, ‘Because you complain too much and are ungrateful to your husbands.’ Then they started to give their jewellery in charity, throwing their earrings and rings into Bilal’s cloak.”
(Narrated by Muslim, 885)
Our believing sisters who learn of this hadeeth should behave like those Sahabiyat (female Companions) who, when they learned of this, did good deeds which would be the means, by Allah’s leave, of keeping them far away from being included in that majority of the inhabitants of Hell.
These hadiths are a warning to the women. If we were not told how could we know that we have those weaknesses? Instead of counting them as unequality or hurting over the hadiths, it should be taken as a command of guidance from ALLAh swt. ALLAH swt says several place sin Quran that nobody will be blessed or forgiven for the ranks or the merits or the riches or the races or on any worldly basis except taqwa.
There are several ahadeeths of the Messenger of Allah (saws) whereby he warned the men, when his audience were men, regarding the severity and important of being merciful, kind, charitable, and forgiving towards their wives, and keeping good harmonious relations with their wives in marriage. Abu Hurayrah, who said that women would form the majority, on the basis of the words of the Prophet (saw):
“The first group to enter Paradise will be as beautiful as the full moon, and the group that follows them will be like the brightest shining stars in the sky: each man of them will have two wives, the marrow of whose leg-bones will be visible through the flesh because of their extreme beauty. There will be no one who is unmarried in Paradise”"[Sahih Muslim, Kitaab al-Jannah, Baab awwal zumrah tadhkul al-Jannah, 4/2179, hadith no. 2834]
This hadith clearly indicates that there will be more women than men in Paradise. Some others thought that there would be more men, because of the hadith, “I saw that they [women] formed the majority of the people of Hell”. The response to this is the fact that women will form the majority of the inhabitants of Hell does not necessarily mean that they will be a minority in Paradise, as Ibn Hajar al-’Asqalaani said [Fath al-Baari 6/325]
The two hadiths may be reconciled by stating that women will be in the majority in both Paradise and Hell, just as there are more women than men in this world. We could say that the hadith narrated by Abu Hurayrah indicates that the total number of women in paradise, including women of this world and al-Hoor al-’Eeyn will outnumber men. The question then is, who will be greater in number in Paradise: the men of this world or the women? al-Qurtubee reconciled between these two hadiths by suggesting that women will form the majority of the inhabitants of Hell before the Shafaa’ah [intercession], when the sinners from amongst the muwwahideen will be brought out of Hell. Thereafter women will form the majority of the people of Paradise. [at-Tadhkirah, al-Qurtubee, p. 475]
So the sisters is to strive to adhere to the rituals and obligatory duties of Islam, especially prayer, and to keep away from that which Allah has forbidden, especially shirk in its many forms which is widespread among women, such as seeking one's needs from someone other than Allah, going to practitioners of witchcraft and fortune-tellers, etc. We should feel happy because we are muslims, and before commenting we should think and try to get the logic behind the words. Something that can be read between the words should be read, not left unread.

Therefore, especially in the area of women in Islam, it is important to distinguish between popular narrations and authentic narrations, between Islam and Muslims, between Islamic Shari’ah and Islamic madhahib, and between the Scriptures and the interpretation of the Scriptures.

Whatever written of Truth and benefit is only due to Allah's Assistance and Guidance, and whatever of error is of me alone. Allah Alone Knows Best and He is the Only Source of Strength.

Your brother Firaz Cassim

And Allah knows best

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