Maryam Amir – Did the companions cover their faces #femalecompanions #womencompanions #niqab

			Albany Rahim hola also thought the
same. He explains how he initially
		

			expected to find a hadith that
showed the woman companions all
		

			covered their faces, and rather,
he found that the opposite was
		

			true, that there were women and
companions who covered their
		

			faces, but so many women
companions did not. He Himself
		

			gives a number of narrations. I'll
give you a handful here. But there
		

			are so many narrations in many
different books, of tafsir, of
		

			fiqh, of Shah, of Hadith. For
example, in one, there was a man
		

			who was a companion who mentions
that he saw the daughter of Abu
		

			Dharm and that she had brown
cheeks. There's another where
		

			Jabra ibn Abdullah Wadi Lohan, who
he narrates seeing a woman who
		

			stood up to ask the Prophet saw
him a question, and that she had,
		

			it's like rosy brown cheeks as
well a different companion. Ibn
		

			Jabir mentions the following. We
used to participate with the woman
		

			in learning a surah from the
Qur'an. And I went with an old
		

			woman from Beni Assad and three
others to Ibn mas oud. So Ibn
		

			masuroud sees this woman, and he
comments on her face. She responds
		

			about Ibn Mr. Erdd, wife Ibn Mr.
ERD responds, No See, look at her
		

			face, and then she goes and looks
at her face, and then comes back
		

			and affirms, Ibn Mr. ERD was
correct narration that the woman
		

			Companions would go to the masjid
in the dark hours of the day or
		

			night, like fejo time, for
example, and they would be covered
		

			and no one would recognize them.
He mentions that they were not
		

			recognizable because of the dark,
but that there's clarification in
		

			a separate narration that their
faces were uncovered because they
		

			couldn't recognize each other's
faces. There's another narration
		

			of a companion who had finished
her Iddah and she adorned herself
		

			in preparation for suitors. And
about this hadith of Vani says
		

			that the Hadith contains clear
evidence hands and face were not
		

			considered aura amongst the
Companions, are so many other
		

			narrations. So I'm gonna stop
here, because it's not a lecture.
		

			This is also not addressing the
fit of nakab. There's a difference
		

			of opinion on whether or not nakab
is an obligation, or if it's
		

			rewarded, or if it's not and not a
religious commandment, or if it's
		

			even makru, which is disliked in
certain circumstances. I
		

			personally used to wear nuqab. I
love my sisters who wear nuqab,
		

			but I think it's important in this
discourse to look at the authentic
		

			evidences that we have from the
women companions and our Salaf and
		

			the way that they discuss them
absolutely. They're going to be
		

			scholars who disagree, and that's
okay, may Allah bless them all May
		

			Allah bless whatever you
personally practice. But I pose
		

			the question again, is it possible
that the way that some of us have
		

			been taught what it means to be a
woman in Islam is different from
		

			the comprehensive way that Islam
looks at women?