5 Asmāʾ bint Abu Bakr and other women covered their faces while in a state of iḥrām.
6 ʿĀʾishah circumambulated the Kaʿbah wearing a niqab (face-veil), and the defect in its chain of transmission is examined.
⦗108⦘ 7 ʿĀʾishah put on a face-veil when the Prophet ﷺ inspected Safiyyah; the flaw in the isnād and its supporting reports are discussed. “See, without fail, p. 15.”
⦗109⦘ 8 ʿUmar’s permission for the Prophet’s ﷺ wives to perform the pilgrimage, ʿUthmān’s order that no one look at them, an assessment of the report’s isnād, and the indication that their persons were concealed—something that does not contradict what has preceded.
– Two reports concerning the veiling of later women.
1 Ḥafṣah bint Sirīn veiled herself with her jilbab even though she was among the elderly who are exempt; the exegetical disagreement over the verse “…that they put off their garments…” is reviewed, with support for the view that the intended garment is the khimar (head-covering), the position attributed to Ibn ʿAbbās.
⦗110⦘ The reliance some place on the ḥadith of Umm Khallād coming to the Prophet ﷺ while veiled, together with an explanation of the flaw in its chain.
⦗112⦘ Likewise the incident of the beautiful woman who tried to tempt ʿUbaydullāh ibn ʿUmayr by uncovering her face, reaffirming the earlier conclusion about what counts as the “face”—contrary to Maududi, who also included the ears—and refuting him on the basis of the ḥadith evidence.
⦗113⦘ 2 The story of the husband who admitted to his wife the sum her guardian had falsely claimed from him, so that she would not have to expose her face before the witnesses out of protective jealousy for her.
⦗114⦘ An important note:
⦗114⦘ A clarification that, according to the early generations, the phrase “or their women” in the verse refers to believing women—contrary to the view of some modern writers—together with what al-Shawkānī and al-Bayhaqī have said in this regard, and the narration from Ibn ʿUmar forbidding Muslim women to enter bathhouses when non-Muslim women are present, along with its documentation.