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In regard of women Az-Zuhri is reported to have said: No woman has ever apostatised after having faith." 35
Adh-Dhahabi is also reported to have said: It is never reported about any woman to have falsified "Prophet's" Hadeeth." 36
In Mizan Al-I'tidal he introduced four thousand men by name, who were suspected of fabrication in reporting the hadeeth, saying: I never know a woman accused of falsification in narrating the hadeeth. 37
Some writers have interpreted Adh-Dhahabi's statement in this way:
"The reason behind this may lie in the fact that men are affected and attracted by political tendencies, love for power, wilfulness and supporting of views, sycophancy near kings and emirs with strong desire to seize the people's hearths... beside other things that divert them from straightforward path. But in regard of women these desires and inclinations have no way or control over them." 38
In this respect AlOstaz Jawadi Amuli says: "The holy Quran endeavoured, through preaching which is strongly and directly connected to the heart and mind, to talk to man, and also tried to talk through wisdom which having indirect relation with heart. If channel of intellect and thought fails to reach the passageway into heart and mind, it will be of no use, and the women being more successful than men in respect of heart, mind, tendency and attraction. Therefore fervent prayer has more impact and effect on women than men or at least on their fellow men, and preaching is more effective upon the woman than the man or her mate man."39

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35 . Awaalim Al-Oloom, vol. XI, p. 278 & 280 .

36 . Tahreer Al-Mar'ah Fi 'Asr Ar-Risaalah, vol. II, p. 423 .

37 . ibid., vol. I, p. 118 .

38 . 'Alaam Al-'Abidaat Az-Zahidaat, p. II.

39 . ibid.