140 – The reason why the night prayer (ʿishāʾ) is singled out for mention in certain ḥadiths.
141 – The sixth condition: “that it not resemble a man’s clothing.”
141 – Beneath this heading are five ḥadiths, the first of which pronounces a curse upon any woman who wears the dress of a man, together with a demonstration of its authenticity.
142 – The ḥadith, “Whoever among women imitates men is not of us…,” its documentation, and a detailed analysis of its isnād.
145 – A curse upon masculinised women and those who mimic men, recorded by al-Bukhārī and others from Ibn ʿAbbās in two wordings, with its documentation.
146 – The ḥadith, “Three will never enter Paradise … the masculinised woman who imitates [men]…,” its documentation, the proofs of its soundness, a list of those who authenticated it, and a note on the shortcoming of al-Mundhirī and others in failing to attribute it to Aḥmad.
147 – Imām Aḥmad’s statements forbidding a man to dress his female slave in men’s garb or to crop her hair, along with an explanation of the term “cropping.”
148 – al-Dhahabī and al-Haythamī’s classification of a woman’s imitation of men as a major sin.
149 – al-Ṭabarī’s remarks on the matter and the wisdom he records for it.
150 – A valuable section from Ibn Taymiyyah, quoted from a rare and voluminous manuscript (vol. 93/132-134), containing important benefits never before published. It is an answer to a question on the ruling concerning women’s wearing of the “kufiyyah” and the “farajī,” together with the governing principle.
151 – Ibn Taymiyyah’s further elaboration of the criterion underlying the prohibition of women resembling men, clarifying that it does not rest on prevailing custom. Rather, the standard refers to what is fitting for men and what is fitting for women, with the Shaykh’s additional explanation.