Endnotes: chapter twenty two

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1. Shaltut, Muhammad, al-Islam `aqida wa shari`a, p.223ff.
2. Muhammad Rashid Ridha, Nida li al-jins al-latif, p.5ff.
3. `Abd al-Wadud Shalabi, Hiwar sarih baina `Abdillah wa `Abdilmasih, p.218.
4. al-Bukhari, Haidh 6; al-Darimi, Widhu' 104. The same is found in the hadith that says: "The deficiency of your religion is your menstruation" (al-Tirmidsi, Iman 6; al-Bukhari, Zakat 6; Muslim, Iman 132; Abu Dawud, Sunna 15; Ibn Maja, Fitan 19.)
5. Ibn Maja, Nikah 4.
6. al-Bukhari, Jumu`a 11 - Yet Muslim has been reported to have hated for women to perform the night prayer. Abu Hakim narrated: "I have heard that the Messenger of God heard a woman praying at night, and asked, "Who is she?" He was answered, "This is al-Hawla Bint Tuwait; she does not sleep at night." The Messenger of God hated that so much that one could see it on his face" (al-Muwatta', Salat al-layl 4).
7. Muslim, Salat.
8. al-Bukhari, Nikah 116.
9. al-Tirmidsi, Sawm 65.
10. al-Qastalani, 8:91.
11. Kanz al-`ummal, 22:2.
12. al-Bukhari, Dsaba'ih 19; Ibn Maja, Dsaba'ih 8.

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