| Karima al-Marwaziyya | |
| Birth Name: | Karima bint Ahmad bin Muhammad bin Hatim al-Marwaziyya |
| Birth Date: | 969 |
| Birth Place: | Kushmihan, near Merv |
| Death Date: | 1069 |
| Death Place: | Mecca |
| Religion: | Islam |
| Denomination: | Sunni |
| Jurisprudence: | Hanafi |
| Main Interests: | Hadith |
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Karima bint Ahmad bin Muhammad bin Hatim al-Marwaziyya (969-1069) was an 11th-century scholar of hadith.[1] [2] [3]
Karima was born in the village of Kushmihan near Merv. She later settled in Mecca.
Karima was an authority on Sahih al-Bukhari. She taught the text of al-Bukhari to students and her scholarship and teaching was widely respected. She was known as the "musnida of the sacred precinct." Thirty-nine men and one woman transmitted material on her authority. Karima was known for her prestigious isnad. Her teaching and scholarship was praised by Abu Dharr of Herat.[4]
Al-Khatib al-Baghdadi and Abu al-Ghana’im al-Nursi narrated from her.
By the end of her life, she was renowned as a teacher and scholar. She was a Hanafi.[5] Karima never married and was celibate and ascetic.[6] Louis Massingon connected her to the women's futuwwa movement founded by Khadija al-Jahniyya. This was the female equivalent of the male futuwwa societies that advocated chivalry, morality, and worship.