The first verse of the Quran was a command to the Prophet to read (iqra): " Read! In the name of your lord Who created, created man from clots of congealed blood. Read. Your lord is the Most Bountiful. One, who taught by the pen, taught man what he did not know" (96:1-5).

Muhammad himself used to teach his companions. He was so interested in this matter, that soon after the victory of Badr (624), he instructed each of Meccan captives, who were illiterated, to teach ten muslims how to read and write as a condition for their release.

One of the most important rights granted to women by Islam is the right to education.

Women achieved greater recognition in Hadith. Aisha is said to have transmitted 2.210 traditions.

Her knowledge and deep understanding were not restructed only to matters of religion; she was equally distinguished in poetry, literature, history and medicine and other branches of knowledge, that were known at that time.

Imam az-Zuhri said: "If the knowledge of Aisha were to be gathered up and compared to the knowledge of all other wives of the Prophet – and all the other women, Aisha's knowledge would be greater".

The male companions of the Prophet often deferred to other final opinion in the determination of which version of hadith was correct.

Aisha was preferred above the other wives of the Prophet by ten attributes – He received revelation while he was with her. Aisha's father was the one of the first male followers of the Prophet.

Aisha is discribed as model of learned woman in Early Islam.