Authenticity Of Hadith About Hazrat Fatima (R.A) And Parda
السلام علیکم! Look, I’m a student of the Arabic language and I’ve just begun my journey, so I’m not going to be talking with full confidence here. @Irfan76 can confirm this but I think the word حائض has been translated as “girls who have attained to puberty” only to make sense of this report. It doesn’t actually mean that. It does mean a menstruating woman. Otherwise, the word used would have just been إمرأة or maybe نساء if it was in the plural. Why would the word used be حائض? And because some scholars believe that covering the head is mandatory for prayer for little girls as well, they have tried to make the word mean “female” even though it doesn’t mean that. Again, @Irfan76 can confirm this. I’m not saying this with certainty. Coming to the fact that some scholars have deemed it to be Sahih, that is correct, of course. But these scholars, with all due respect, only take into account the chain of narrators of a report because they extract religion from these reports. They can’t take into account the actual text. Because then, how would you say that you can extract religion from these reports when you are the one judging whether what they are saying is correct according to the Quran or Sunnah or not? Coming to your point about آداب. You are right. According to this report, if it is taken to mean what you are taking it to mean , it is not just etiquettes for a woman to cover her head in prayer. But ONLY for prayer. THIS IS NOT ABOUT GENDER INTERACTION . The report itself is still vague for me. Questions arise like: خمار on the head or خمار on the bosom? Why use the word “حائض”? Why not إمرأة or جارية if it pertains to little girls as well? However, I would like to reiterate that one shouldn’t make these reports the basis of his religious beliefs. Rather, these reports are to be understood and judged by the basis of your religious beliefs. Namely, the Quran and Sunnah. Also, I have attached an entry from Lane’s Lexicon (which is an excellent Arabic to English lexicon). Observe how he has to take up the issue of the word used in this report separately. Please feel free to inquire further. We are all learning here.