The Ruling on a Woman Exposing Her Face and Hands

Question:
Someone said to me: "The face is 'awrah (a part of the body that must be covered), but the hands are not 'awrah because there is no evidence for that." And a sister says: "Wearing gloves on the hands is a bid'ah (religious innovation), and no evidence has come for that." Their argument for this is that it does not cause fitnah (trial, discord or temptation). Please clarify this, may Allah reward you with good?

Answer:
The correct view, held by the most precise scholars among the people of knowledge, is that the woman is 'awrah in her entirety; her face, her feet, and her entire hands are 'awrah. This is because Allah said: [Al-Ahzab: 53], and He did not exclude anything. And He said: [An-Nur: 31], and so on.
Therefore, the most precise scholars among the people of knowledge have established that she is 'awrah, and it is obligatory to cover her so that she does not cause fitnah, and so that she is not a cause of fitnah. Aisha (may Allah be pleased with her) informed us that they used to expose themselves before the hijab (the covering prescribed for women). When Allah revealed the verse of the hijab, they covered their faces. This indicates that when the verse of the hijab was revealed, women were commanded to guard their faces and their entire bodies. Before that, they used to expose their faces and hands, before the revelation of the verse of the hijab, and then they were commanded to cover up.