– My project entitled “Bringing the Sunnah Within the Reach of the Ummah,” the date it was inaugurated, and the first topic with which it began.
37- The conditions of the jilbab, which are eight¹ in number, together with the clarification that some of them are required of men as well as of women.
39- The first condition: that it envelop the entire body apart from what has been excepted.
The proofs for this from the two verses in Sūrah al-Nūr and Sūrah al-Aḥzāb; the meaning of His words, “except what is outwardly apparent,” and the statements of the early generations in explaining the phrase.
41- Ibn Jarīr’s view that what is meant is the face and the two hands, citing his own wording; a precise definition of “face,” contrary to certain contemporary writers; and Ibn Jarīr’s indication of the weakness of the ḥadith that permits a woman to uncover half of her forearm (see the note).
42- Another ḥadith conveying the same sense yet even more objectionable, for it allows the entire forearm; and a rebuttal of Professor Mawdūdī for attempting to corroborate one report with the other.
43- The evidence on which Mawdūdī bases that attempted corroboration, and a demonstration of how it contravenes the conditions stipulated by the scholars for strengthening narrations.
44- Al-Nawawī’s statement on the matter, together with another indispensable condition he mentions elsewhere but which escaped Mawdūdī’s notice; the issue is clarified from two perspectives in a valuable, rare discussion seldom found elsewhere, including an exposition of the particular type of tadlīs practiced by Ibn Jurayj that Mawdūdī overlooked.
46- The author’s debate with Mawdūdī regarding his claim that the exception mentioned in the ḥadith of the menstruating woman appears with differing phrases: “the hand,” “half the forearm,” and “the forearm,”