Sunan Abi Dawud
Clothing (Kitab Al-Libas)
When Surat an-Nur came down, they took the curtains, tore them and made head covers (veils) of them.
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Sunan Abi Dawud
Clothing (Kitab Al-Libas)
When Surat an-Nur came down, they took the curtains, tore them and made head covers (veils) of them.
Sunan Abi Dawud
Clothing (Kitab Al-Libas)
When the verse "That they should cast their outer garments over their persons" was revealed, the women of Ansar came out as if they had crows over their heads by wearing outer garments.
Sunan Abi Dawud
Clothing (Kitab Al-Libas)
May Allah have mercy on the early immigrant women. When the verse "That they should draw their veils over their bosoms" was revealed, they tore their thick outer garments and made veils from them.
Sunan Abi Dawud
Clothing (Kitab Al-Libas)
I saw (this tradition) in the writing of my maternal uncle from 'Aqil, from Ibn Shihab through a different chain of narrators and to the same effect.
Sunan Abi Dawud
Clothing (Kitab Al-Libas)
Asma, daughter of AbuBakr, entered upon the Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) wearing thin clothes. The Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) turned his attention from her. He said: O Asma', when a woman reaches the age of menstruation, it does not suit...
Sunan Abi Dawud
Clothing (Kitab Al-Libas)
Umm Salamah asked the Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) permission for getting herself cupped. He commanded Abu Tibah to cup her. The transmitter said: I think he was her foster-brother or a boy not yet of age.
Sunan Abi Dawud
Clothing (Kitab Al-Libas)
The Prophet (ﷺ) brought Fatimah a slave which he donated to her. Fatimah wore a garment which, when she covered her head, did not reach her feet, and when she covered her feet by it, that garment did not reach...
Sunan Abi Dawud
Clothing (Kitab Al-Libas)
A mukhannath (eunuch) used to enter upon the wives of Prophet (ﷺ). They (the people) counted him among those who were free of physical needs. One day the Prophet (ﷺ) entered upon us when he was with one of his...
Sunan Abi Dawud
Clothing (Kitab Al-Libas)
The tradition mentioned above has also been transmitted by 'Aishah through a different chain of narrators to the same effect.
Sunan Abi Dawud
Clothing (Kitab Al-Libas)
He (the Prophet) exiled him and he lived in a desert (outside Medina). He would come every Friday asking for food.
Sunan Abi Dawud
Clothing (Kitab Al-Libas)
He was told: Messenger of Allah, in that case he will of starvation. So he allowed him to visit (the cit) twice a week so that he might ask for food and go back.
Sunan Abi Dawud
Clothing (Kitab Al-Libas)
The verse: "And say to the believing women that they should lower gaze was partly abrogated by the verse: "Such elderly women as are past the prospect of marriage."
Sunan Abi Dawud
Clothing (Kitab Al-Libas)
I was with the Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) while Maymunah was with him. Then Ibn Umm Maktum came. This happened when we were ordered to observe veil (purdah). The Prophet (ﷺ) said: Observe veil from him. We asked: Messenger of...
Sunan Abi Dawud
Clothing (Kitab Al-Libas)
On his father's authority, said that his grandfather reported the Prophet (ﷺ) said: When one of you marries his male-slave to his slave-woman, he should not look at her private parts.
Sunan Abi Dawud
Clothing (Kitab Al-Libas)
On his father's authority, said that his grandfather reported the Prophet (ﷺ) said: When one of you marries his female servant to his slave or to his employee, he should not look at her private part below the navel and...
Sunan Abi Dawud
Clothing (Kitab Al-Libas)
The Prophet (ﷺ) came to visit her when she was veiled, and said: use one fold and not two. Abu Dawud said: "Use one fold and not two" means: "Do not fold it like the turban of a man. Do...
Sunan Abi Dawud
Clothing (Kitab Al-Libas)
The Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) was brought some pieces of fine Egyptian linen and he gave me one and said: Divide it into two; cut one of the pieces into a shirt and give the other to your wife for...
Sunan Abi Dawud
Clothing (Kitab Al-Libas)
When the Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) mentioned lower garment, Umm Salamah, wife of the Messenger of Allah (ﷺ), asked him: And a woman, Messenger of Allah? He replied: She may hang down a span. Umm Salamah said: Still it (foot)...
Sunan Abi Dawud
Clothing (Kitab Al-Libas)
Ibn Ishaq and Ayyub b. Musa transmitted it from Nafi' from Safiyyah.
Sunan Abi Dawud
Clothing (Kitab Al-Libas)
The Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) gave licence to the Mothers of the believers (i.e. the wives of the Prophet) to hang down their lower garment a span. Then they asked him to increase it, and he increased one span for...