Authenticity Of Ahadith About Pardah
Salam. I watched the entire series and this hadith is discussed by Hasan sahab and Ghamidi sahab in video no. 12. Ghamidi sahab says that the veil is to be used for hiding the adornments. But in a later verse it is said that old women can take off their outer coverings on the condition that they don’t show their adornments. I mean, if it’s not a sin for old women to take off their outer coverings only on the condition that they don’t show their adornments, doesn’t it mean that young women cannot take off their outer coverings even if they aren’t wearing any adornments? Also, I’m really stuck at this hadith. If khimaar was a covering which women of that era used to cover their heads with, doesn’t the verb اختمرن (khimaar themselves) in the hadith mean “to cover their heads with a covering”? Is this hadith hasan, sahih mutawaatir or just a single-chain transmission hadith? Thank you .
Brother Mumin as far as I understand if you research in fiqh books and read old tafsirs like tafsir Ar Razi you will find different rules of headcovering for women of different classes. I think earlier scholars did not interpret this verse like today’s scholars do, because for them to miss the part of the verse, ” all believing women” all at one go is difficult for me to digest. Covering of head was a tradition that was abolished only a few 100 yrs from now hence you see so many reports of veiled women. My humble opinion is that these women veiled themselves because of a worldwide custom and not because of the Qur’an, if headcovering was mandatory then why would Allah leave it on the assumption of the reader and not explicate Himself like he did in the case of juyyub?