Authenticity Of Ahadith About Pardah
السلام علیکم! Ok. A question to consider: i s the Quran not clear that we need to look for its explanation in the actions of others? Now, how does this event even mean that the people of the time considered the verse to mean that both the bosom and the head are to be covered? All of us agree that women used to cover their heads before this verse. So, they didn’t do anything new. They kept their original practice and also made sure the bosom was covered as per the injunctions of God. Also, the report only tells what the immigrant women did. It does not mention what the helper women did. Once again, even the immigrant women did not do anything new. It’s not like they were not covering their heads and then the verse was revealed and they started covering their heads. No. They were covering their heads but not their bosoms. After the injunction of God, they chose a different and more appropriate cloth so that the bosom too was covered with their cultural head cover. So, the whole argument rests on a very big and flawed assumption that even the words of the report do not accept. It clearly mentions only the immigrant women and not the helper women. The second point is also flawed. If the people of that time knew the real implication of the verses of the Quran, they wouldn’t have differed on their implication. They would have agreed on their meanings, which they did not do. So, this argument is also flawed. Regarding your second last paragraph, if you agree that the Quran only asks for the bosom to be covered, how dare we add to God’s words and claim that the head ought to be covered as well? Regarding your last question, we follow the Quran 😅. What else? There is absolutely no proof that the women of the time understood that the Quran meant for the head to be covered as well, like I’ve tried to show. Even if there was, their understanding is not necessarily the correct one. We still see what the Quran says and follow that.