whose walls had been draped.
Salim ibn ‘Abd Allah said: “I was married while my father was still alive, and my father invited the people to the wedding. Abu Ayyub was among those invited. They had hung a green nijad1 cloth over the walls of my house. Abu Ayyub came in, saw me standing, looked around, and noticed that the house was curtained with that green nijad. He said, ‘O ‘Abd Allah, are you veiling the walls?’ My father—feeling embarrassed—answered, ‘The women overruled us, Abu Ayyub!’ He replied, ‘Of all the people I might have feared would let women get the better of them, I never expected it of you!’ Then he said, ‘I shall neither eat your food nor enter your house,’ and he left, may Allah be pleased with him.2
- Plucking the eyebrows and similar practices
Third: Some women pluck their eyebrows until they look like a bow or a crescent, doing so for the sake of adornment.