From the selected readings for this week I found Hadith 31 to be particularly interesting. It reads as follows:
“Khansā’ reported,
Her father gave her away in marriage, and she was a thayyib, and she did not like it. So she came to the Messenger of Allāh, peace and blessings of Allāh be on him, and he annulled her marriage.”
This was intriguing to be due to the fact that most ancient cultures would have been perfectly fine with a father giving away his daughter for marriage . In fact, as we learned earlier in the semester, that was the norm in some cultures. For the readings about Muhammad himself to argue that this ideology would in-fact be wrong was thought provoking for me. It seems as you go further back into history the rights for women diminish further and further but many instances in the Hadith argued for the opposite of that.