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Busting Myths – Women are Less Reliable than Men

Many people misunderstand the verse in the Quran 2:282, which says to call in one man and two women. If one woman forgets then the other will remind her. So does Islam say women are less reliable than men? 

This myth is busted because one of the top 5 narrators of hadith was ‘Aisha (RA). Reliability was based on experience not the biological make-up of a person. 

In the social cultural context of the time female testimony was deemed more superior in areas that women were more involved in. 

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