Karima bint Ahmad bin Muhammad bin Hatim al-Marwaziyya (969-1069) was an 11th-century scholar of hadith.[1][2][3][4]
Biography
Karima was born in the village of Kushmihan near Merv. She later settled in Mecca.[2]
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.[1] She was known as the "musnida of the sacred precinct."[2] Thirty-nine men and one woman transmitted material on her authority.[2] Karima was known for her prestigious isnad. Her teaching and scholarship was praised by Abu Dharr of Herat.[2][5]
By the end of her life, she was renowned as a teacher and scholar.[2] She was a Hanafi.[6] Karima never married and was celibate and ascetic.[2][7]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.[7]
