(b) Their display took place on an Eid day, and the days of Eid are times of joy, happiness, and wider latitude in what is normally permissible.
(c) It was also a display by men, marked by roughness, enthusiasm, and courage.

2 – Their spear-play served as training in bravery, valor, combat skills, and readiness for the enemy; it therefore brought about a general Sharʿi benefit. The tolerance and ease of Islam, combined with these purposeful justifications, made such an activity permissible inside the Noble Prophet’s Mosque.

3 – To dismiss the report as abrogated, or to claim that the play actually occurred outside the mosque and the like, is mere contrivance unsupported by any evidence. Nor is it contradicted by the hadith recorded by Ibn Mājah (750), al-Ṭabarānī in al-Kabīr (8/132), and al-Bayhaqī (10/103) from Wāʾilah ibn ʿAdī in which the Prophet ﷺ said, “Keep your children and the insane away from your mosques,” for those Abyssinians were neither children nor lunatics who distract worshippers during prayer. Moreover, that hadith is extremely weak: Ibn Ḥajar states that all of its chains of transmission are feeble, and ʿAbd al-Ḥaqq said, “It has no basis.”

4 – The hadith proves that a woman may look at unrelated men provided the gaze is not one of desire.

5 – It likewise demonstrates the leniency and graciousness of the Sacred Law, in contrast to the stance of many extremists and zealots who view religion only through the lens of harshness and severity. Al-Bukhārī records (3931): “The Prophet ﷺ came to ʿĀʾishah during the Days of Minā while two young girls were singing the songs of Buʿāth. He lay down on his bed and turned his face away. Abū Bakr then entered and rebuked them, but the Prophet uncovered his face and said, ‘O Abū Bakr, leave them; every people has a festival, and this is our festival.’” Such is the tolerance of Islam and its rulings.