Is there an authentic, explicit hadith that obligates a woman to cover her face and hands?
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Question:
He asks: Is there an authentic, explicit hadith that obligates a woman to cover her face and hands?
Answer:
The Muslims had no doubt about this until the modern currents and modern ideas appeared and ignorance spread among the people, so they began to talk about this matter. Otherwise, the women of the Muslims would have veiled themselves. Allah (Exalted and Majestic) says:[Al-Ahzab 33:59] And the jilbab is the jallab or the 'abayah.
It is the large jallab, called the malla', which the woman places over her clothes. Allah commanded her to cover her face with it from men, just as she covers her body with it. And He the Exalted said:[Al-Ahzab 33:53] And the hijab is the covering that conceals the woman from a wall or a garment, or anything else that hides the woman's body from the man. Yes. And Aisha (may Allah be pleased with her) used to report that they were in a state of ihram with the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him), and when men passed by them, one of them would lower her khimar over her face, and when they had passed, they would uncover it. These are explicit and clear proofs, but desire blinds and confuses, as in the hadith, or as in the athar.
He asks: Is there an authentic, explicit hadith that obligates a woman to cover her face and hands?
Answer:
The Muslims had no doubt about this until the modern currents and modern ideas appeared and ignorance spread among the people, so they began to talk about this matter. Otherwise, the women of the Muslims would have veiled themselves. Allah (Exalted and Majestic) says:
O Prophet, tell your wives and your daughters and the women of the believers to bring down over themselves [part] of their outer garments
يَا أَيُّهَا النَّبِيُّ قُل لِّأَزْوَاجِكَ وَبَنَاتِكَ وَنِسَاءِ الْمُؤْمِنِينَ يُدْنِينَ عَلَيْهِنَّ مِن جَلَابِيبِهِنَّIt is the large jallab, called the malla', which the woman places over her clothes. Allah commanded her to cover her face with it from men, just as she covers her body with it. And He the Exalted said:
And when you ask [his wives] for something, ask them from behind a partition
وَإِذَا سَأَلْتُمُوهُنَّ مَتَاعًا فَاسْأَلُوهُنَّ مِن وَرَاءِ حِجَابٍ
Source
قناة «العلامة الدكتور صالح الفوزان»، هل يوجد حديث صحيح صريح يوجب تغطية المرأة للوجه والكفين؟ للشيخ الفوزان — youtube.com
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