116 – A warning against employing non-Muslim women as servants, and a clarification of the many harms this brings upon both spouses and their children.
117 – A refutation of those who have issued a fatwa permitting such employment on the claim that these women are comparable to female slaves under one’s right hand.
119 – The second condition: “that the garment itself not be an adornment.”
119 – Beneath this heading comes the ḥadith, “Three types of people about whom you need not ask…,” which includes, “and a woman who goes out displaying her beauty…,” together with a verification of its soundness and how it proves the point at hand.
120 – An explanation of tabarruj (flagrant display of adornment), al-Dhahabī’s remarks on it, its being among the reasons women form the majority of Hell’s occupants, the Prophet’s ﷺ pledge from women that they would not practice tabarruj—as transmitted by Aḥmad and others—and a demonstration that the extra wording “and the wealthy” is an unacceptable addition.
121 – The permissibility of a woman’s jilbab being a colour other than white or black, with textual proof; a clarification of the ruling when it is multicoloured; and the comments of the scholar al-Ālūsī on the matter.
112 – Several reports describing the Prophet’s ﷺ wives wrapping themselves in reddish or saffron-tinged blankets.
125 – The third condition: “that the cloth be thick and not transparent.”
125 – A collection of ḥadiths and early reports establishing this requirement.
126 – The documentation of the report of Umm ʿAlqamah, showing that she is unknown, noting her omission from some chains, and exposing Maududi’s error in treating the report as corroborative when in reality there is only one pathway.
127 – An explanation of the garments called marawiyyah, quhwiyyah, and qibtiyyah, and the prohibition issued by some early Muslims against women wearing them because they cling to the body.
128 – ʿĀʾishah’s report on the proper description of the khimar, its chain of transmission, and a linguistic discussion of the term ṣafīq (thick).