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====Muhammad's companions striking women==== | ====Muhammad's companions striking women==== | ||
There is some hadith evidence that the wife beating verse may have been a result of pressure from 'Umar, or at least there is an intention in the hadith to exonerate Muhammad who is portrayed as reluctantly agreeing to permit wife beating with the man who would became the second rightly guided Caliph. 'Umar is also recorded slapping Muhammad's wife Hafsa and striking his own wife, and on yet another occasion telling a man to beat his wife after she tried to stop him having intercourse with (raping) a slave girl. Hadiths suggest a general pattern of 'Umar's violence towards and interest in controlling women. The revelation of the Verse of Hijab ({{Quran|33| | There is some hadith evidence that the wife beating verse may have been a result of pressure from 'Umar, or at least there is an intention in the hadith to exonerate Muhammad who is portrayed as reluctantly agreeing to permit wife beating with the man who would became the second rightly guided Caliph. 'Umar is also recorded slapping Muhammad's wife Hafsa and striking his own wife, and on yet another occasion telling a man to beat his wife after she tried to stop him having intercourse with (raping) a slave girl. Hadiths suggest a general pattern of 'Umar's violence towards and interest in controlling women. The revelation of the Verse of Hijab ({{Quran|33|53}} is even more explicitly linked to pressure from 'Umar (see the article [[Hijab]]). | ||
Multiple hadiths in the authoritative ''[[Sahih Bukhari]]'' report that Abu Bakr (the first Rightly-Guided [[Caliph]] of Islam and Muhammad's best friend) also struck (his daughter) Aisha violently with his fist. | Multiple hadiths in the authoritative ''[[Sahih Bukhari]]'' report that Abu Bakr (the first Rightly-Guided [[Caliph]] of Islam and Muhammad's best friend) also struck (his daughter) Aisha violently with his fist. | ||