in their annotation, and in filling lines with additional volume, page, and hadith numbers copied from the indexes, without any noteworthy benefit! Allah is the One whose help is sought. *

3463 — “Whoever lifts a curtain and casts his gaze into a house before being granted permission, thus seeing the private parts of those within, has crossed a boundary that he has no right to cross. If, when he cast his gaze inside, a man confronted him and gouged out his eye, no liability would be imposed upon that man. But if a man passes by a door that has no curtain but is left open, and he looks inside, there is no sin upon him; the sin lies only upon the people of the house.”

Al-Tirmidhi (2707) recorded it: Qutaybah narrated to us; Ibn Lahi'ah narrated to us, from Ubayd Allah ibn Abi Ja'far, from Abu Abd al-Rahman al-Hubuli, from Abu Dharr, who said: The Messenger of Allah, peace and blessings be upon him, said: … and he cited it.

Ahmad (5/181) also recorded it through two other routes from Ibn Lahi'ah, with the same chain.

Al-Tirmidhi said:

“A singular hadith; we know it only through the narration of Ibn Lahi'ah.”

I say: He was truthful and trustworthy, but he suffered from poor memory. Thus, the hadith of one who narrated from him before that, or from his book, is authentic. Among them were the Abādilah (the narrators named Abd Allah), and some included others with them, such as Qutaybah ibn Sa'id—as has previously been quoted from al-Hafiz al-Dhahabi more than once. This is one of Qutaybah’s narrations from him, as you can see. Thus, the hadith is singular and authentic. I had declared it weak in some of my earlier source-documentations, such as Ghayat al-Maram (423), before I came across the aforementioned observation of al-Dhahabi. Thereafter, I began trying to remain alert to it in every hadith that he mentions