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scholar. She was the last student of Husayn ibn al-Mubarak al-Zabidi and Abu al- Munajja Ibn al-Latti. Alongside with her prominent predecessors -Umm al-Darda and Fatima bint 'Abd al- Malik ibn Marwan, wife of the pious caliph 'Umar ibn 'Abd al-'Aziz, she is represents what
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underlined an interesting coincidence regarding Sitt al-Wuzara' that she was the last women in the world who had narrated the hadiths from Sahih Al-Bukhari from Al-Zadibi and died in 716 and Aishah bint
Muhammad ibn 'Abd al-Hadi al-Maqdisiyyah, who died one hundred years later, had even above this
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The Arabic word sitt does not signify the personal name. It means a respectful greeting as lady usually attributed to the female rules or to women with some exceptional talents in the sciences. For example, queen of the
Fatimid dynasty of Egypt in 980 bore the title Sitt al-Mulk. Sitt al-Qudat (
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Throughout her life Sitt al-Wuzara' had a plenty of students, among whom the ordinary and noble men were found. She lived more than ninety years. And as it was reported by Ibn Kathir, she was teaching until the last breath, the last day of her long life.
117:(dated 8th century), which stated that narration of al-Firabri, the isnad (the chain of the transmitters of the hadiths) of Sitt al-Wuzara'. In other words, the narrator heard the chain of the transmitters along with the hadiths from Sitt al-Wuzara'.
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literally, chief of qadis, or judge) was a female expert in hadith and fiqh, and lived in
Damascus in 14th century. Also, Sitt al-'Arab an Sitt al-'Ajam other eminent experts in hadiths lived in the same century.
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