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Sitt al-Wuzara' al-Tanukhiyyah (d.716) is a Syrian hadith scholar of 8th century. She was a last student of Husayn ibn al-Mubarak al-Zabidi and Abu al- Munajja Ibn al-Latti. Alongside with her prominent predecessors -Umm al-Darda and Fatima bint 'Abd al- Malik ibn Marwan, wife of the pious caliph 'Umar ibn 'Abd al-'Aziz, she represents what Mohammad Akram Nadwi terms as hadith scholarship from al-Sham (Greater Syria).

It must be noted that Arabic wordsitt does not signify the personal name. It means a respectful greeting as lady usually atributted to the female rules or women with some exceptional talents in the sciences. For example, queen of the Fatimid dynasty of Egypt in 980 beared the title Sitt al-Mulk. Sitt al-Qudat ( literally, chief of qadis, or judge) was a female expert in hadith and fiqh, and lived in Damascus in 14th century. Also, Sitt al-'Arab an Sitt al-'Ajam other eminent experts in hadiths lived in the same century.

Apropos, in another source she is called with a longer name Sitt al-Wuzara' bint 'Umar ibn al-Munajja that means she is a daughter of 'Umar who is son of al-Munajja.

An exceptional devotion, steadfastness and stamina in the teaching has been exercised by Sitt al-Wuzara. She was widely known in Damascus for teaching Sahih Al-Bukhari, the authentic collection of the hadiths(included over 7000 hadiths unanimously accepted by Muslim scholars of his time). As an evidence of her high role in narrating hadiths can be the fact that under the main title on the ornamented title page of Sahih al-Bukhari (dated 8th century) was stated that narration of al-Firabri, but isnad ( the chain of the transmitters of the hadiths) of Sitt al-Wuzara'. In other words, the narrator heard the chain of the transmitters alongside with the hadiths from Sitt al-Wuzara'.

Nadwi in Al-Muhaddithat: the Women Scholars in Islam underlines an interesting coincidence regarding Sitt al-Wuzara' that she was the last women in the world who has narrated the hadiths from Sahih Al-Bukhari from Al-Zadibi and died in 716 and Aishah bint Muhammad ibn 'Abd al-Hadi al-Maqdisiyyah who died one hundred years later had even above this quality that even from among the men who heard from al-Hajjar, the colleague of Sitt al-Wuzara', none remained in the world other than herself

Throughout her life Sitt al-Wuzara' had a plenty of students, among whom the ordinary and nobel men were found. She lived more than ninety years. And as it is reported by Ibn Kathir, she was teaching until the last breath, the last day of her long life. .

This rare type of destiny dedicated to the teaching and mixed with the passion to searching and delievering knowledge can be compared with destiny of Al-Jahiz,man of literature from of Basra, Iraq,who lived in 9th century. Al-Jahiz spent 50 years in Baghdad, the peak of young Muslim civilization and centre of learning. As historians claim, he was studying and writing about 200 books. He authored books on various topics, (i.e. seven volume Book of Animals, the Art of Keeping One's Mounth Shut, Against Civil Servants). He was working with books until his last breath, he died at the age of 92 in the private library out of merely accident when a pile of books felt down on him