Why Not Prefer Opinion Of Senior Sahabi Ibn-e-masud Over Ibn-e-Abbas Over Hijab
Women in the time of the prophet never covered their face. For reference you can consult the book by Dr Mazhar Yasin Siddiqui, Rasool Allah Awr Khawateen AIk Samaji Mutala. What Abdulla bin Masood assumes is the obvious but doesn’t refute what Ibn Abbas says. The words in the verse are not what gets exposed but what is exposed which favoures the interpretation of Ibn Abbas.