Narrated Amr bin Suhaib: On his father's authority, said that his grandfather reported the Prophet صلی اللہ علیہ وسلم said: When one of you marries his female servant to his slave or to his employee, he should not look at her private part below the navel and above the knees. Abu Dawud said: The correct name is Sawwad bin Dawud al-Muzani al-Sairafi (and not Dawud bin Sawwad as mentioned in the chain). The narrator Waki misunderstood it.
Read More..Narrated Umm Salamah, Ummul Muminin: The Prophet صلی اللہ علیہ وسلم came to visit her when she was veiled, and said: use one fold and not two. Abu Dawud said: Use one fold and not two means: Do not fold it like the turban of a man. Do not double it up manifolds.
Read More..Narrated Dihyah ibn Khalifah al-Kalbi: The Messenger of Allah صلی اللہ علیہ وسلم was brought some pieces of fine Egyptian linen and he gave me one and said: Divide it into two; cut one of the pieces into a shirt and give the other to your wife for veil. Then when he turned away, he said: And order your wife to wear a garment below it and not show her figure. Abu Dawud said: Yahya bin Ayyub transmitted it and said: Abbas bin Ubaid Allah bin Abbas
Read More..Safiyyah, daughter of Abu Ubayd, said: When the Messenger of Allah صلی اللہ علیہ وسلم mentioned lower garment, Umm Salamah, wife of the Messenger of Allah صلی اللہ علیہ وسلم, asked him: And a woman, Messenger of Allah? He replied: She may hang down a span. Umm Salamah said: Still it (foot) will be uncovered. He said: Then a forearm's length, nor exceeding it.
Read More..The tradition mentioned above has also been transmitted by Umm Salamah from the Prophet صلی اللہ علیہ وسلم through a different chain of narrators. Abu Dawud said: Ibn Ishaq and Ayyub bin Musa transmitted it from Nafi from Safiyyah.
Read More..Narrated Abdullah ibn Umar: The Messenger of Allah صلی اللہ علیہ وسلم gave licence to others of the believers (i. e. the wives of the Prophet) to hang down their lower garment a span. Then they asked him to increase it, and he increased one span for them. They would send (the garment) to us and we would measure it one forearm's length for them.
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