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Sahih al-Bukhari 146

The going out of women for answering the call of nature

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حَدَّثَنَا يَحْيَى بْنُ بُكَيْرٍ قَالَ حَدَّثَنَا اللَّيْثُ قَالَ حَدَّثَنِي عُقَيْلٌ عَنِ ابْنِ شِهَابٍ عَنْ عُرْوَةَ عَنْ عَائِشَةَ

أَنَّ أَزْوَاجَ النَّبِيِّ ﷺ كُنَّ يَخْرُجْنَ بِاللَّيْلِ إِذَا تَبَرَّزْنَ إِلَى الْمَنَاصِعِ وَهُوَ صَعِيدٌ أَفْيَحُ فَكَانَ عُمَرُ يَقُولُ لِلنَّبِيِّ ﷺ احْجُبْ نِسَاءَكَ فَلَمْ يَكُنْ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ ﷺ يَفْعَلُ فَخَرَجَتْ سَوْدَةُ بِنْتُ زَمْعَةَ زَوْجُ النَّبِيِّ ﷺ لَيْلَةً مِنَ اللَّيَالِي عِشَاءً وَكَانَتِ امْرَأَةً طَوِيلَةً فَنَادَاهَا عُمَرُ أَلاَ قَدْ عَرَفْنَاكِ يَا سَوْدَةُ حِرْصًا عَلَى أَنْ يَنْزِلَ الْحِجَابُ فَأَنْزَلَ اللَّهُ آيَةَ الْحِجَابِ

Translation

Chain of narrators
  1. Yaḥyá b. Bukayr
  2. al-Layth
  3. ʿUqayl
  4. Ibn Shihāb
  5. ʿUrwah
  6. ʿĀʾishah

The wives of the Prophet ﷺ used to go to Al-Manasi, a vast open place (near Baqiʿ at Medina) to answer the call of nature at night. ʿUmar used to say to the Prophet ﷺ "Let your wives be veiled," but Allah's Apostle did not do so. One night Sauda bint Zamʿa the wife of the Prophet ﷺ went out at ʿIsha' time and she was a tall lady. ʿUmar addressed her and said, "I have recognized you, O Sauda." He said so, as he desired eagerly that the verses of Al-Hijab (the observing of veils by the Muslim women) may be revealed. So Allah revealed the verses of "Al-Hijab" (A complete body cover excluding the eyes).

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Other narrations of this report

Sahih Muslim 2170dMusnad Ahmad 25866Musnad Ahmad 26331al-Sunan al-Kubra (al-Bayhaqi) 13636

Narrators

  1. ʿĀʾishah bt. Abū Bakr al-Ṣiddīq
    Mother of the Believers, the most knowledgeable woman in jurisprudence absolutely (afqah al-nisāʾ muṭlaqan)d. 57 AH, or 58 AH
    عَائِشَةُ بِنْتُ أَبِي بَكْرٍ الصِّدِّيقِأم المؤمنين ، أفقه النساء مطلقا
    عن
  2. ʿUrwah b. al-Zubayr
    trustworthy (thiqah), a jurist (faqīh), well-known (mashhūr)d. 91 AH, or 92, or 93 AH, or 94 AH, or 95 AH, or 99 AH, or 100 AH, or 101 AH
    عُرْوَةَثقة فقيه مشهور
    عن
  3. al-Zuhrī
    The jurist and memorizer (ḥāfiẓ), whose eminence, precision and reliability are agreed upond. Ḍamrah b. Rabīʿah and others said: 123 AH. The nephew of al-Zuhrī and others said: 124 AH. Ibn Yūnus and others said: 125 AH
    ابْنِ شِهَابٍالفقيه الحافظ ، متفق على جلالته وإتقانه وثبته
    عن
  4. ʿUqayl
    trustworthy, precise (thiqah thabt)d. 141 AH, or: 142 AH, or: 144 AH
    عُقَيْلٌثقة ثبت
    حدثني
  5. al-Layth b. Saʿd
    Trustworthy (thiqah), reliable (thabt), a jurist (faqīh), a well-known imamd. 175 AH, or 176 AH, or 177 AH
    اللَّيْثُثقة ثبت ، فقيه إمام مشهور
    حدثنا
  6. Yaḥyā b. Bukayr
    Trustworthy (thiqah) in narrating from al-Layth, but they spoke critically about his hearing from Mālikd. 231 AH or 232 AH
    يَحْيَى بْنُ بُكَيْرٍثقة في الليث ، وتكلموا في سماعه من مالك
    حدثنا
  7. al-Bukhārī
    a mountain of memorization and the leader of the world in the comprehension of hadith (jabal al-ḥifẓ wa-imām al-dunyā fī fiqh al-ḥadīth)d. 256 AH
    الْبُخَارِيُّجبل الحفظ وإمام الدنيا في فقه الحديث

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Commentaries

Fatḥ al-Bārī (Ibn Ḥajar)
Fatḥ al-Bārī (Ibn Ḥajar)
ʿUmdat al-Qārī (Badr al-Dīn al-ʿAynī)
ʿUmdat al-Qārī (Badr al-Dīn al-ʿAynī)

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