Then look at the commentary of Imam Qadi Iyad, the Prophet (s)’s wife stood up before Abu Salamah and exposed the entire upper half of her body, hair, breasts, and all. If she was then what be the need for Ayesha to stand behind a screen? She could have demonstrated it fully clothed before the Sahaba. Todays Nawasib offer all manner of excuse for this tradition and suggest that Ayesha was clothed and that the observers were related to Ayesha. As for the lower part of her body, this was covered.
Qadi Ayad says: It is apparent that they could see her actions from her head and the top half of her body, because they were allowed to do as she was a milk-aunt to Abu Salamah and his brother from her sister Umm Kulthum. The author of Fath al-Bari Volume 1 page 356, Bab Ghusl then comments upon this hadeeth, writing: She brought a pot containing about a Sa’ of water and took a bath and poured it over her head and at what time there was a screen between her and us.
Narrated Abu Salama: ‘Ayesha’s brother and I went to ‘A’isha and he asked her about the bath of the Prophet. We read in Sahih Bukhari, Bab Ghusl Volume 1, Book 5, Number 251: Answering-Ansar has a bad habit of mistranslating texts, here is one more example from its article on Imam Mehdi.Īnswering-Ansar says: Five: Ayesha performed a topless Ghusl in front of men (naudobillah)
