Discover Islam has a
poster that says that Muhammad never hit a woman or child. This is untrue. In the Sunnah,
Muslim, Book 4, Hadith No. 2127 it records that Muhammad hit his favourite wife in the chest, causing her pain, because she followed him. It was her turn with her husband and he slipped out when he thought she was asleep. When he found out, Muhammad hit her because she thought that "Allah's apostle would deal unjustly with her."