175: Sawdah bint Zam'ah: Marriage & Alleged Divorce by the Prophet | Our Prophet

This episode is from Chapter 8 of Our Prophet -- the most comprehensive life story (seerah) of Prophet Muhammad (s) by Sayed Mohammed Baqer Qazwini.
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Things you'll learn in this episode of Our Prophet:
00:00 - The story of Sawdah bint Zam'ah
02:08 - How and why did the Prophet marry Sawdah?
05:30 - The two groups among Prophet's wives
06:25 - Sunni Traditions on Prophet ignoring her due to her age
11:54 - Narrations not aligning with the Akhlaq of the Prophet
13:45 - Compromising Prophet's dignity to elevate wives and companions
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[@tasneembootwala8308]

Allahumma Salle ala Muhammad wa aale Muhammad

[@rabiasaeed2206]

Well critical Analysis of the Rasool Allah’s second wife for companionship and ease her hardship. The event of Madina about separation of wives is a very unfortunate event in our history due to jealousy a common human emotion but the verse in the Quran clearly condemns their acts and threatened to be replaced with the women of Taqwa. In our Sunni School of thought she gave up her right simply because of her age. Thanks for sharing your version about her.

[@Thaqlain]

JazakAllah for your kind words :) The best way different schools of thought can come closer is by active listening to the other side and appreciating the differences. Then only we can experience unity through diversity. We look forward to have you with us in future episodes too. For previous episodes, please use the following link: www.youtube.com/@Thaqlain/playlists?view=50&sort=dd&shelf_id=1

[@shaistaabbas05]

Thank you for these amazing lectures.

[@thetruth27786]

Im sunni although i have started seeing that some of the sunni narrative dont make sense.. Although i also believe aisha ra did not narrate many hadeeths people accuse her of,it could be forged too

[@towardshidayat]

Thats soemthing shia scholars actually theorize. That Muawiya could have forged some of these hadiths.

[@hassansoueid5705]

Do you think the battle of jamal was forged too?

[@zeealy3968]

So do our sources say that the prophet wanted to divorce sawda

[@Thaqlain]

According to our sources this story never happened. And it was made up just to show that the Prophet was more inclined towards some specific younger wives.

[@ahzamrasheed1208]

Completely wrong! The Beloved Prophet never considered divorcing Mother Sawdah because he was cored of her. Instead, he thought of it because of her ageing; when you are a wife, you have specific responsibilities towards your husband, which Mother Sawdah found challenging. Like she started to stroll and suffered from joint pains, she thus could not accompany Beloved Prophet on journeys. So Beloved Prophet took up the idea of divorcing her to free her from the bounds of responsibilities. And divorcing someone does not mean you cannot take care of her. Many women were not the wives of the Beloved Prophet, yet he took care of them, his aunts, his cousins etc. And what would we make of the verse of the Qur'an revealed regarding it? Unless Shi'a believes in some other Qur'an.

[@ashvazdanghe]

Salam prophet Muhammad (pbu) has had older wives than her so aging issue has not been the reason also duty of hereives has not been serving him as concubine which prophet has married with them for making peace deal with Arab tribes &spreading Islam peacefully which also we Shias have no other Quran as ignorant wahabists have claimed such nonsense.

[@Thaqlain]

1) Prophet's wives were never forced to accompany him on journeys. In fact, they were encouraged by Quran to stay home. 2) This entire incident was made up to create importance for some other wives. Because Umm Salamah was even older than Sawdah. 3) The revelation of the mentioned verse will be discussed in today's episode.

[@ahzamrasheed1208]

@@Thaqlain 1) the wives of the Beloved Prophet did accompanied him on journeys and even military expeditions, the verses of 'tayammum' was revealed when the necklace of Mother Aisha was lost. 2) Wrong! Mother Sawdah was born in 566 AD and Mother Umm Salmah was born in 580 AD. Mother Sawdah was almost 15 years older than Mother Umm Salmah. 3) The Asbab nuzul of any verse of Qur'an must be supported by the other verse of Qur'an, not from your so called hadith. I'll see how you justify it. And last thing, whenever you mention the names of the Beloved wives of the Beloved Prophet call them as mother as they are your mother if you are Muslim so be respectful towards your Mother Aisha or Mother Sawdah or Mother Hafsa. This is ordained by Qur'an.

[@Thaqlain]

Salaam Alaykum. When we said they never travelled, it meant that they were never obligated to travel. Similarly, the dates of birth and the ages at the time of marriage with the Prophet are highly debatable. But InshaAllah, in the upcoming episodes related to Umm Salamah, you will realize that age was never an issue for the Prophet; in fact, he deliberately married women of higher age. Lastly, your initial argument is not found in Quran nor in the hadith. Neither is your point of adding mother to the names found in the Quran or hadith nor was it practised by hadith writers. The summary of the argument is, it is against the stature of the Prophet to divorce a lady when Allah had allowed him to marry more than 4 wives just because the lady was getting older and Prophet got some new younger wives. The marriage with Sawdah happened in the first place so that Prophet could take care of her. This entire story is fabricated, showing Nauzobillah, Prophet's desire for younger women, if accepted.

[@ahzamrasheed1208]

@@Thaqlain There is a difference between never travelled and not being obligated to travel and they can't be used interchangeably. I never said that age was an issue for the Beloved Prophet to marry anyone, he married women older as well as younger than him. Lastly, you still haven't give any Asbab of the verse of the Beloved Prophet right to divorce. I have made my point very clear that Beloved Prophet never considered to divorce Mother Sawdah because he was bored or he got younger wives, that's just your imagination. The reason he took this consideration is because Mother Sawdah was finding it difficult to carry out the responsibilities of a wife, she was facing health issues and thus Beloved Prophet thought of releasing her from these responsibilities. And the Beloved Prophet married Mother Sawdah as a mutual benefit, Mother Sawdah has just lost her husband and Beloved Prophet had also lost Mother Khadija. They both were lonely. So they both were taking care of each other. And one more thing, nowhere in Sunni tradition it is seen as a glorification of Mother Aisha over Mother Sawdah. Allah has glorified Mother Aisha in the Qur'an itself by declaring her pious and chaste woman. Your Mother Aisha does not need a divorce affair to glorify herself. Have some respect for your mother. Or do you not consider her your mother at all?