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﴿ فَاسْأَلُوا أَهْلَ الذِّكْرِ إِن كُنتُمْ لَا تَعْلَمُونَ ﴾

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Explanation of the Book of Friday Prayer and the Two Festivals-07a

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The reciter: Muhammad narrated to us, 'Umar ibn Hafs narrated to us, my father narrated to us, from 'Asim, from Hafsah, from Umm 'Atiyyah, who said:
We used to be ordered to come out on the Day of `Id and even bring out the virgin girls from their houses and menstruating women so that they might stand behind the men and say Takbir along with them and invoke Allah along with them and hope for the blessings of that day and for purification from sins. كنا نؤمر أن نخرج يوم العيد حتى نخرج البكر من خدرها، حتى نخرج الحيض، فيكن خلف الناس فيكبرن بتكبيرهم ويدعون بدعائهم، يرجون بركة ذلك اليوم وطهرته
Sahih al-Bukhari 971
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The Shaykh : Allah is the Greatest. In this is an indication that virgin women should stay in their homes and not go out. This is the proper conduct of the women of the Companions (may Allah be pleased with them), and it is also the proper conduct of women before the world opened up to us and people came who did not know the ruling regarding this modesty and staying in the homes, until they made young women go out into the markets and they did not care about this. Yet if you were to reflect now, you would find that the preservers of the Shari'ah are the men. How many hadiths have we read in Sahih Muslim and Sahih al-Bukhari? Is there a woman in the chain of the hadith? No, it is very rare, except for the female Companions, who are the end of the chain. This indicates that men are the preservers of the Shari'ah in reality, and they are the ones who should bear the responsibility in matters of religion and worldly affairs, as Allah the Exalted said:
Men are in charge of women الرجال قوامون على النساء
[An-Nisa 4:34]
And His saying:
and menstruating women so that they might stand behind the men حتى تخرج الحيض فيكن خلف الناس
Sahih al-Bukhari 971
in the hadith
the menstruating woman stays away from the place of prayer يعتزل الحيض المصلى
And in His saying:
they say takbir with their takbir يكبرن بتكبيرهم
there are two possibilities. The first possibility is that the preposition "ba" indicates accompaniment, meaning that they say takbir with the people. Another possibility is that it indicates causality, meaning that when the people say takbir, the women are reminded of the takbir, so they say it.
and they make du'a with their du'a ويدعون بدعائهم
And if the meaning is that they knew that this day is a day of du'a, so they make du'a, then each person makes du'a alone.
And this last sentence supports that his saying:
they say takbir with their takbir يكبرن بتكبيرهم
means causality. Yes, there are questions.
Source alathar.net

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