Index ‘Abbasids, 113, 138, 147, 149-50, 151 ‘Abd Allah b. Ahmad b. Hanbal, 102 ‘Abd Allah b. al-Harith b. Nawfal, 47 cAbd Allah b. Shaddad, 37 cAbd Allah b. Yusuf, 127 ‘Abd Allah b. al-Zubayr, 48-9, 52, 53nl20 ‘Abd al-Malik b. Marwan, 57, 71 ablution from cooked food, 37, 41 see also purity, ritual Abou-Bakr, Omaima, 15 Abu ‘Amr b. Hafs b. al-Mughlra, 58 Abu Bakr b. Muhammad b. Hazm, 67, 95 Abu al-Darda5, 70, 71, 73 Abu Dawud al-Sijistanl, 99-101, 127 Abu Dharr al-HarawI, 117n32 Abu Hanlfa, 44, 98 Abu Hatim al-RazI, 96 Abu Hurayra, 28, 36, 37, 40 Abu Musa al-Ash‘arI, 31n44 Abu Nu‘aym al-Isbaham, 111 Abu Salama (first husband of Umm Salama), 34 Abu Salama b. ‘Abd al-Rahman b. ‘Awf, 36-7 Abu Shuqqa, Muhammad, 106 Abu al-Waqt, 116 Abu Ya‘la b. al-Farra5, 153 Abu Zur‘a al-Dimashql, 96 Afsaruddin, Asma, 111 ah ad reports, 98-9 ahl al-hadith, 91, 97 Ahmed, Leila, 77, 105, 191n8 ‘A’isha bint Abl Bakr, 26-34 disagreeing with other Companions, 28-31,34 as faqiha , 26-7, 30, 44, 59, 67-8 hadlth transmitted by, 25, 27-9, 78 interaction with men by, 19, 32-3, 41-3 on rida( al-kabir , 30-4 role in Battle of the Camel of, 38, 44 stature as transmitter of, 26-8, 58, 72 status of precedent of, 44 on women’s travel without mahram , 104 see also Muhammad’s wives ‘A’isha bint Muhammad b. ‘Abd al-Hadl, 145, 166, 169-75 ‘A’isha bint Muhammad b. al-Muslim, 172 ‘AJisha bint Talha b. ‘Ubayd Allah, 66, 68-9 ‘A’isha bint Yusuf al-Ba‘uniyya, 182 ‘Ajlba al-Baqadriyya, 163, 169 akhbar , 10nl5, 16n36 al-‘AlawI, Abu al-Hasan, 127, 128-9 ‘All b. Abl Talib, 38, 85 ‘All b. al-Madlnl, 96 ‘All Muhammad b. Yahya (Ibn al-Ibri), 158-9 ‘Alid women, 85-6 ‘ alima , 67 Amat al-Khaliq bint al-Khayr, 181 ‘Amra bint ‘Abd al-Rahman, 66-8, 84, 87, 94-5, 100, 103 Anas b. Malik, 53 Arbaclnat , 109n5, 172nl05 Asad, Talal, 5-7, 110, 152, 194 asceticism, 97, 134, 147, 180, 192 women’s, 66, 70-4, 106, 132-4, 182 Ash‘arism, 131, 132, 139 see also Sufl-Shafi ‘T-Ash ‘arism in Nishapur Asma1 bint Abl Bakr, 48-53, 75n47 Asma1 bint Muhammad al-MaqdisI, 164n61 Asma' bint Sa‘Id, 89n78 Aws b. Samit, 20-1 al-Awza‘I, 95, 109 Ayyubids, 147, 159 ‘Aziza al-Harawiyya, 133 Azizat al-Dln Ukhshah Khatun, 162n52 Baghdad, 149-51 Bakkar b. Muhammad, 73 al-Balkhl, 98 Banu Qudama, 157, 161, 169-70 213