Question
‘Umar threatened to exile this man for transmitting hadith that contradicted more reliable Companions. For 10 points each:
[10h] Name this prolific transmitter of hadith. ‘Ali called this man “the ummah’s liar,” and as such most contemporary jurists and modern Shi’i jurists reject the veracity of this man’s transmissions.
ANSWER: Abū Hurayra [or Abd ar-Raḥmān ibn Ṣakhr] (His reputation among the Sunni has been largely rehabilitated due to sectarian reasons, despite early Sunni criticism as well.)
[10e] This spiritual leader known as al-Siddiqah, or the truthful, condemned Hurayra’s transmissions that demeaned women. Hurayrah questioned the credibility of this last wife of Muhammad, accusing her of womanly vanity.
ANSWER: Ā’isha [or Ā’isha bint Abī Bakr]
[10m] A hadith sourced to Hurayrah underpinning much misogynistic jurisprudence relates Muhammad saying that this action is not permissible before other humans, but he would order wives to do it before their husbands if it were.
ANSWER: prostration to their husbands [or descriptions of wives bowing to husbands; accept sujud] (The transmissions from Ā’isha – Muhammad’s wife – and most of the other Companions directly contradict this sentiment.)
Data
| Team | Opponent | Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 | Total |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Brown A | Northwestern A | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| Chicago A | Penn A | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| Chicago B | Johns Hopkins A | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 |
| Duke A | Chicago C | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| Florida A | Toronto A | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| Georgia Tech A | MIT A | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 |
| Georgia Tech B | Minnesota B | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 |
| Illinois A | Michigan A | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Indiana A | Columbia B | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| Iowa State A | North Carolina A | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 |
| Maryland A | Harvard A | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| Minnesota A | Houston A | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| NYU A | Cornell B | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| Ohio State A | Yale A | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 |
| Rutgers A | Vanderbilt A | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| UC Berkeley A | Imperial A | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| UC Berkeley B | Columbia A | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| WUSTL A | South Carolina A | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| WUSTL B | Texas A | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| Yale B | Purdue A | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 |