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?