The ruling on a woman passing in front of a woman who is praying
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Honorable Shaykh, does a woman passing by interrupt a woman's prayer? And if the answer is yes, how is the hadith of Abu Dharr in Muslim: (it interrupts the prayer of a Muslim man) restricted to men?
A woman interrupts a woman's prayer just as she interrupts a man's prayer.And the explanation of the hadith you mentioned: The point is that the rulings mentioned for men apply to women unless there is evidence to the contrary, and the rulings that apply to women apply to men unless there is evidence to the contrary. This is the rule and the original principle. So, if there is no explicit evidence indicating that a woman passing in front of a woman does not interrupt the prayer, or that a dog passing in front of a woman does not interrupt the prayer—and by dog I mean a black dog—or that a donkey passing by does not interrupt it,Meaning: Someone might say: A woman passing in front of a woman does not interrupt the prayer because a woman's attention is not drawn to her sister, unlike a woman passing in front of a man. But the black dog and the donkey refute this, as there is no difference between men and women in that regard. So the correct view is that it is general for men and women, and its restriction to men is like many other texts that mention the ruling attached to men, or attached to women, and the original principle is that they are equal in rulings.
The questioner: And the "al" in "al-rajul" (the man)?The Shaykh: (Al) in the masculine form refers to the generic class.
A woman interrupts a woman's prayer just as she interrupts a man's prayer.And the explanation of the hadith you mentioned: The point is that the rulings mentioned for men apply to women unless there is evidence to the contrary, and the rulings that apply to women apply to men unless there is evidence to the contrary. This is the rule and the original principle. So, if there is no explicit evidence indicating that a woman passing in front of a woman does not interrupt the prayer, or that a dog passing in front of a woman does not interrupt the prayer—and by dog I mean a black dog—or that a donkey passing by does not interrupt it,Meaning: Someone might say: A woman passing in front of a woman does not interrupt the prayer because a woman's attention is not drawn to her sister, unlike a woman passing in front of a man. But the black dog and the donkey refute this, as there is no difference between men and women in that regard. So the correct view is that it is general for men and women, and its restriction to men is like many other texts that mention the ruling attached to men, or attached to women, and the original principle is that they are equal in rulings.
The questioner: And the "al" in "al-rajul" (the man)?The Shaykh: (Al) in the masculine form refers to the generic class.