What is the ruling regarding the report: "The women of the Ansar went out as if there were crows on their heads" when the words of the Exalted were revealed
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The questioner : ... When the verse of hijab was revealed, they went out like a black crow; from her head to her feet, is this valid evidence ...?
The Shaykh : I heard good, but I understood it poorly.
The questioner : May Allah reward you with good.
The Shaykh : Like a black crow.
The questioner : ... .
The Shaykh : Yes, but it does not state that this black garment covered their faces, and when they went out like this, do you remember that in the hadith they stood behind the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) praying; do you remember this or not?
The questioner: No, I do not remember.
The Shaykh : And when they went out with their heads like crows, meaning: they stood behind the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) praying; so is it obligatory for a woman to cover her face in prayer then?
The questioner : In prayer? No, it is not obligatory.
The Shaykh: All right.
The questioner : But if there is fitnah and men ... in the Haram ... in the markets ... but in the Haram, men and women; how can the woman be uncovered while she is a fitnah before the men?
The Shaykh : ... Now we have demolished the hadith.
The questioner : Yes?
The Shaykh : We have demolished the hadith, we have demolished it.
The questioner : Yes.
The Shaykh : ... Do you have knowledge?
The questioner: Yes.
The Shaykh : Demolition is the opposite of building, the hadith says:Muwatta Malik 20:17, you are saying it causes harm, please, this is dangerous speech.
The questioner : Why?
The Shaykh : Because you are contradicting the Messenger.
The questioner : May Allah send prayers and peace upon him.
The Shaykh : This contains great danger, this is exactly like the group who came to the wives of the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) and asked them about the worship of the Messenger (peace be upon him); about his standing in prayer, his fasting, and his visiting his wives, and they said the reality of the Messenger is that he prays at night and sleeps, fasts and breaks the fast, and marries women, and they considered it little, do you know what "they considered it little" means?
The questioner: Yes.
The Shaykh : It means they found his worship to be little.
The questioner : Yes?
The Shaykh : They found his worship to be little, the worship of the Messenger, the master of worshippers, who stood until his feet swelled, and they said: this is little worship!! Do you understand me?
The questioner: Yes.
The Shaykh : Ah, then they returned to justify the littleness of this worship, and they said: this is the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him and his family), Allah has forgiven him what came before of his sin and what came after; as if they are saying there is no longer a motive for the Messenger (peace be upon him) to worship a lot. -- Stay with me, Abu Jamal, may Allah be pleased with you, ... your view of the speech changes ... .
The questioner : Yes, yes, may Allah reward you with good, ...
The Shaykh : Correct -- so they found the worship of the Messenger to be little, what is your opinion, is this not ...?
The questioner : No, it is not permissible.
The Shaykh : Is it permissible?
The questioner : No.
The Shaykh : It is not permissible, but they brought something else that is not permissible; which is their justification for this little worship; where they said: this is the Messenger of Allah (peace be upon him), Allah has forgiven what came before of his sin and what came after, meaning why should he trouble himself? Why should he trouble himself by standing the whole night and fasting the whole year? Ha, our Lord has forgiven him ... what is he? ... every Muslim, by Allah, has been forgiven for the Messenger, as for us and them the group - and upon you be peace and the mercy of Allah and His blessings ... - ... in error, they added error upon error, the error is that they claimed the worship of the Messenger is little; this is the first error, and the second error is that they justified the littleness of his worship - in their claim - that Allah forgave him; why should he trouble himself then?! Do you understand how?
The questioner : ... .
The Shaykh : Ah, so they returned to themselves and said: we have not obtained forgiveness from Allah; therefore we must strive hard so that our Lord forgives us, so one of them said: as for me, I will stand the whole night and not sleep, and the second said: I will fast the whole year and not break the fast, and the third said: as for me, I will not marry women. Then the Messenger (peace and blessings be upon him) came and was informed of the news - the news of the group - so he addressed the people in the mosque and said:Sunan Abi Dawud 4788Sahih (Al-Albani) - he recounted what they said - .
The Messenger (peace and blessings be upon him and his family) must be a firm belief in the heart of every Muslim who truly believes in Allah and His Messenger; that he believes he did not leave for anyone to correct him in anything, even from the perspective of blocking the means to harm in what was known in his time, and this phrase - in what was known in his time - is a very necessary condition on this occasion, it was reported in "Sahih Muslim" that the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) said:, there is no doubt that this is the belief of every Muslim that the Messenger did not conceal anything, nor did he delegate the matter of explanation to others, how are we when we read in the Qur'an [Al-Ma'idah 5:3] to the end of the verse? And we read in the hadith of Imam al-Shafi'i the following hadith: , if this is the belief of every Muslim, then he must not overlook it when the ruling of Allah and the ruling of His Messenger comes to him, and his position must not be the position of the group who comes to the Messenger and contradicts him by saying: Sahih Muslim 1401, if the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) said with truth about the woman in ihram: Muwatta Malik 20:17; then the Muslim cannot say to this that there is fitnah upon her, how are the men and women in tawaf and sa'y? We say: there is no room for correcting the Messenger; because it is revelation from Allah, [An-Najm 53:3-4], for this reason it is necessary to clarify the Shari'ah ruling in its entirety so that the Muslim or Muslim woman does not fall into a nullifier and a nullified thing, in excess or negligence, and regarding the face of the woman, the scholars mentioned two opinions; some say that it is 'awrah, and some say that it is not 'awrah, and this is the correct one which ... the Sunnah, and there is nothing in the Qur'an that contradicts this ever, and the experience is not far from you, because the previous verse does not mean covering the face, but it means bringing the jilbab close to the face, this bringing close was explained in the Sunnah: .
Nevertheless, those who say that it is not 'awrah say it is better for her to cover her face, and those who say that the face is 'awrah say she must uncover her face while in ihram, this second aspect is not explained by the scholars who say that the face of the woman is 'awrah to the people as they do with the positive aspect; they say it is obligatory for the woman to cover her face, but they do not say what contradicts that; which is that it is forbidden for her to cover her face in the state of being in ihram.
The Shaykh : I heard good, but I understood it poorly.
The questioner : May Allah reward you with good.
The Shaykh : Like a black crow.
The questioner : ... .
The Shaykh : Yes, but it does not state that this black garment covered their faces, and when they went out like this, do you remember that in the hadith they stood behind the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) praying; do you remember this or not?
The questioner: No, I do not remember.
The Shaykh : And when they went out with their heads like crows, meaning: they stood behind the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) praying; so is it obligatory for a woman to cover her face in prayer then?
The questioner : In prayer? No, it is not obligatory.
The Shaykh: All right.
The questioner : But if there is fitnah and men ... in the Haram ... in the markets ... but in the Haram, men and women; how can the woman be uncovered while she is a fitnah before the men?
The Shaykh : ... Now we have demolished the hadith.
The questioner : Yes?
The Shaykh : We have demolished the hadith, we have demolished it.
The questioner : Yes.
The Shaykh : ... Do you have knowledge?
The questioner: Yes.
The Shaykh : Demolition is the opposite of building, the hadith says:
a woman in ihram should wear neither a veil
لا تنتقب المرأة المحرمةThe questioner : Why?
The Shaykh : Because you are contradicting the Messenger.
The questioner : May Allah send prayers and peace upon him.
The Shaykh : This contains great danger, this is exactly like the group who came to the wives of the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) and asked them about the worship of the Messenger (peace be upon him); about his standing in prayer, his fasting, and his visiting his wives, and they said the reality of the Messenger is that he prays at night and sleeps, fasts and breaks the fast, and marries women, and they considered it little, do you know what "they considered it little" means?
The questioner: Yes.
The Shaykh : It means they found his worship to be little.
The questioner : Yes?
The Shaykh : They found his worship to be little, the worship of the Messenger, the master of worshippers, who stood until his feet swelled, and they said: this is little worship!! Do you understand me?
The questioner: Yes.
The Shaykh : Ah, then they returned to justify the littleness of this worship, and they said: this is the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him and his family), Allah has forgiven him what came before of his sin and what came after; as if they are saying there is no longer a motive for the Messenger (peace be upon him) to worship a lot. -- Stay with me, Abu Jamal, may Allah be pleased with you, ... your view of the speech changes ... .
The questioner : Yes, yes, may Allah reward you with good, ...
The Shaykh : Correct -- so they found the worship of the Messenger to be little, what is your opinion, is this not ...?
The questioner : No, it is not permissible.
The Shaykh : Is it permissible?
The questioner : No.
The Shaykh : It is not permissible, but they brought something else that is not permissible; which is their justification for this little worship; where they said: this is the Messenger of Allah (peace be upon him), Allah has forgiven what came before of his sin and what came after, meaning why should he trouble himself? Why should he trouble himself by standing the whole night and fasting the whole year? Ha, our Lord has forgiven him ... what is he? ... every Muslim, by Allah, has been forgiven for the Messenger, as for us and them the group - and upon you be peace and the mercy of Allah and His blessings ... - ... in error, they added error upon error, the error is that they claimed the worship of the Messenger is little; this is the first error, and the second error is that they justified the littleness of his worship - in their claim - that Allah forgave him; why should he trouble himself then?! Do you understand how?
The questioner : ... .
The Shaykh : Ah, so they returned to themselves and said: we have not obtained forgiveness from Allah; therefore we must strive hard so that our Lord forgives us, so one of them said: as for me, I will stand the whole night and not sleep, and the second said: I will fast the whole year and not break the fast, and the third said: as for me, I will not marry women. Then the Messenger (peace and blessings be upon him) came and was informed of the news - the news of the group - so he addressed the people in the mosque and said:
What is the matter with the people that they say such and such?
ما بال أقوام يقولون كذا وكذا وكذا ؟As for me, I fear Allah more than you, and I am more mindful of Allah than you; as for me, I fast and break the fast, and I stand the night and sleep, and I marry women; so whoever turns away from my Sunnah is not from me
أما إني أخشاكم لله ، وأتقاكم لله ؛ أما إني أصوم وأفطر ، وأقوم الليل وأنام ، وأتزوج النساء ؛ فمن رغب عن سنَّتي فليس منِّيThe Messenger (peace and blessings be upon him and his family) must be a firm belief in the heart of every Muslim who truly believes in Allah and His Messenger; that he believes he did not leave for anyone to correct him in anything, even from the perspective of blocking the means to harm in what was known in his time, and this phrase - in what was known in his time - is a very necessary condition on this occasion, it was reported in "Sahih Muslim" that the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) said:
No prophet was sent by Allah (Blessed and Exalted is He) but it was obligatory upon him to guide his ummah to the best of what they know
ما من نبيٍّ بعثه الله - تبارك وتعالى - إلا كان حقًّا عليه أن يدلَّ أمته على خير ما يعلمونهThis day I have perfected for you your religion
اليوم أكملت لكم دينكمI did not leave anything that brings you closer to Allah but I commanded you with it, and I did not leave anything that distances you from Allah and brings you closer to the Fire but I prohibited it from you
ما تركت شيئًا يقرِّبكم إلى الله إلا وأمرتكم به ، وما تركت شيئًا يبعِّدكم عن الله ويقرِّبكم إلى النار إلا ونهيتم عنهAnd he who turns away from my Sunnah, he has no relation with Me
فمن رغب عن سنَّتي فليس منِّيa woman in ihram should wear neither a veil nor gloves
لا تنتقب المرأة المحرمة ولا تلبس القفازين(3) Nor does he speak from [his own] inclination. (4) It is not but a revelation revealed,
وما ينطق عن الهوى إن هو إلا وحي يوحىWhen a woman reaches the age of menstruation, it is not permissible for any of her to be seen except her face and her two hands.
إذا بلغت المرأة المحيض لم يصلح أن يُرى منها إلا وجهها وكفَّيهاNevertheless, those who say that it is not 'awrah say it is better for her to cover her face, and those who say that the face is 'awrah say she must uncover her face while in ihram, this second aspect is not explained by the scholars who say that the face of the woman is 'awrah to the people as they do with the positive aspect; they say it is obligatory for the woman to cover her face, but they do not say what contradicts that; which is that it is forbidden for her to cover her face in the state of being in ihram.
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