Narrated Aishah, Ummul Muminin: A mukhannath (eunuch) used to enter upon the wives of Prophet صلی اللہ علیہ وسلم. They (the people) counted him among those who were free of physical needs. One day the Prophet صلی اللہ علیہ وسلم entered upon us when he was with one of his wives, and was describing the qualities of a woman, saying: When she comes forward, she comes forward with four (folds in her stomach), and when she goes backward, she goes backward with eight (folds in her stomach). The Prophet صلی اللہ علیہ وسلم said: Do I not see that this (man) knows what here lies. Then they (the wives) observed veil from him.
Read More..The tradition mentioned above has also been transmitted by Aishah through a different chain of narrators to the same effect.
Read More..The tradition mentioned about has also been transmitted by Aishah through a different chain of narrators. This version has: He (the Prophet) exiled him and he lived in a desert (outside Madina). He would come every Friday asking for food.
Read More..The tradition mentioned above has also been transmitted by al-Auzai through a different chain of narrators. This version adds: He was told: Messenger of Allah, in that case he will of starvation. So he allowed him to visit (the cit) twice a week so that he might ask for food and go back.
Read More..Narrated Ibn Abbas: The verse: And say to the believing women that they should lower gaze was partly abrogated by the verse: Such elderly women as are past the prospect of marriage.
Read More..Narrated Umm Salamah, Ummul Muminin: I was with the Messenger of Allah صلی اللہ علیہ وسلم while Maymunah was with him. Then Ibn Umm Maktum came. This happened when we were ordered to observe veil (purdah). The Prophet صلی اللہ علیہ وسلم said: Observe veil from him. We asked: Messenger of Allah! is he not blind? He can neither see us nor recognise us. The Prophet صلی اللہ علیہ وسلم said: Are both of you blind? Do you not see him? Abu Dawud said: This was peculiar to the wives of the Prophet صلی اللہ علیہ وسلم. Do you not see that Fatimah daughter of Qays passed her waiting period with Ibn Umm Maktum. The Prophet صلی اللہ علیہ وسلم said to Fatimah daughter of Qays: Pass your waiting period with Ibn Umm Maktum, for he is a blind man. You can put off your clothes with him.
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