Loose draping means placing the upper wrap over one’s shoulders without bringing one end back over the other. Some have said that loose draping means placing the upper wrap over one’s head without letting its ends fall over one’s right and left sides. (1)

Others have said that loose draping means letting one’s garment hang down below the ankles, (2) in which case it has the same meaning as letting one’s garment trail below the ankles.

What is well known among our jurists is that it means placing the garment over the shoulders without bringing one end back over the other shoulder (365). However, if this garment is normally worn in this manner, there is nothing wrong with it. For this reason, Shaykh al-Islam said: “Wearing a qaba’ over the shoulders without putting one’s arms through its sleeves does not fall under loose draping.” (3) A qaba’ resembles what we call a coat or a jubbah.

Wrapping oneself tightly in a garment and covering one’s face.

His statement, “wrapping oneself tightly in a garment,” is an instance in which a thing is ascribed to its type; that is, wrapping oneself in the manner known as al-samma’. It means wrapping oneself in a garment without leaving openings for one’s hands, because this prevents one from performing the prescribed acts of prayer properly. Also, if something were to attack him, he would be unable to respond to it promptly. This is especially so if the garment is a shirt: it is even more restrictive, such as when one wears a shirt but does not put one’s hands through its sleeves. This is a constricting wrap, and even more constricting than al-samma’, because an upper wrap may come open with vigorous movement, whereas this will not come open.

Some scholars said that wrapping oneself in al-samma’ means draping oneself with a garment when one has no other garment on, and this is the established position of the school (4): that one is wearing a wide garment and then drapes it in this manner.