52. Witnesses

٥٢۔ كتاب الشهادات

52.12 The witness of women

٥٢۔١٢ بَابُ شَهَادَةِ النِّسَاءِ

[Machine] And His saying, Exalted is He: "But if there are not two men, then a man and two women."

وَقَوْلِهِ تَعَالَى: {فَإِنْ لَمْ يَكُونَا رَجُلَيْنِ فَرَجُلٌ وَامْرَأَتَانِ}.

bukhari:2658Ibn Abū Maryam > Muḥammad b. Jaʿfar > Zayd > ʿIyāḍ b. ʿAbdullāh > Abū Saʿīd al-Khudrī

The Prophet ﷺ said, "Isn't the witness of a woman equal to half of that of a man?" The women said, "Yes." He said, "This is because of the deficiency of a woman's mind."  

البخاري:٢٦٥٨حَدَّثَنَا ابْنُ أَبِي مَرْيَمَ أَخْبَرَنَا مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ جَعْفَرٍ قَالَ أَخْبَرَنِي زَيْدٌ عَنْ عِيَاضِ بْنِ عَبْدِ اللَّهِ

عَنْ أَبِي سَعِيدٍ الْخُدْرِيِّ ؓ عَنِ النَّبِيِّ ﷺ قَالَ أَلَيْسَ شَهَادَةُ الْمَرْأَةِ مِثْلَ نِصْفِ شَهَادَةِ الرَّجُلِ قُلْنَا بَلَى قَالَ فَذَلِكَ مِنْ نُقْصَانِ عَقْلِهَا