- In which sources is the report of Aisha's age? · 1
Verifying at source the claim that the report appears 'only in al-Bukhari'.
- The nursing of an adult (rada' al-kabir) · 1
The report that Salim was nursed as a grown man to establish mahram status, against the Quran's account of milk kinship.
- Abraham's 'three lies' · 1
The report in the Sahihayn that Abraham lied three times; two of the three are sentences the Quran contains, and the third comes from a scene the Quran never relates.
- The deficiency of women in intellect and religion · 1
The report that women form the majority of hellfire's people and are deficient in intellect and religion.
- Hiring a woman for zina and the hadd · 1
Treating the fee in paid zina as a 'dower' so that the hadd falls away by doubt, against the Quran's tying of the fee to a chaste bond alone.
- A guardian marrying off a minor girl · 7
The father's authority to marry off a daughter too young to consent; Aisha's marriage as the proof-text.
- Killing the apostate · 5
The report 'whoever changes his religion, kill him', against the Quran's prohibition of compulsion in religion.
- The bewitching of the Prophet · 1
The report in the Sahihayn that the Prophet was bewitched by Labid b. al-A'sam and imagined doing what he had not done, against the Quran's attribution of the epithet 'bewitched' to the disbelievers.
- Ill omen (tiyara) and women · 1
The report in the Sahihayn that ill omen resides in the woman, the horse and the house; the Quran's rejection of augury.
- The pause in revelation and the mountain tops · 1
The balagh in Bukhari's text, introduced by al-Zuhri's 'as has reached us': going out during the pause in revelation to cast himself from a mountain, against the Quran's own consolation for that pause (sura 93).
- Marrying one's daughter born of zina · 1
Whether a daughter born of zina, legally unattributed to the father, falls under the marriage prohibition.