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ahmad:26110ʿUthmān b. ʿUmar > Yūnus > al-Zuhrī > ʿUrwah > ʿĀʾishah

[Machine] "Indeed, there were women from among the believers who used to witness with the Messenger of Allah ﷺ the Fajr (morning) prayer, and then they would return to their homes wrapped in their cloaks, with their faces covered, so as not to be recognized."  

أحمد:٢٦١١٠حَدَّثَنَا عُثْمَانُ بْنُ عُمَرَ حَدَّثَنَا يُونُسُ عَنِ الزُّهْرِيِّ عَنْ عُرْوَةَ عَنْ عَائِشَةَ

أَنَّ نِسَاءً مِنَ الْمُؤْمِنَاتِ كُنَّ يَشْهَدْنَ مَعَ رَسُولِ اللهِ ﷺ الصُّبْحَ ثُمَّ يَنْقَلِبْنَ مُتَلَفِّعَاتٍ بِمُرُوطِهِنَّ إِلَى بُيُوتِهِنَّ مَا يُعْرَفْنَ مِنَ الْغَلَسِ  


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Collected by Bukhārī, Muslim, Mālik, Aḥmad, Ibn Ḥibbān, Suyūṭī
bukhari:578Yaḥyá b. Bukayr > al-Layth > ʿUqayl > Ibn Shihāb > ʿUrwah b. al-Zubayr > ʿĀʾishah

The believing women covered with their veiling sheets used to attend the Fajr prayer with Allah's Apostle, and after finishing the prayer they would return to their home and nobody could recognize them because of darkness.  

البخاري:٥٧٨حَدَّثَنَا يَحْيَى بْنُ بُكَيْرٍ قَالَ أَخْبَرَنَا اللَّيْثُ عَنْ عُقَيْلٍ عَنِ ابْنِ شِهَابٍ قَالَ أَخْبَرَنِي عُرْوَةُ بْنُ الزُّبَيْرِ أَنَّ عَائِشَةَ أَخْبَرَتْهُ قَالَتْ

كُنَّ نِسَاءُ الْمُؤْمِنَاتِ يَشْهَدْنَ مَعَ رَسُولِ اللَّهِ ﷺ صَلاَةَ الْفَجْرِ مُتَلَفِّعَاتٍ بِمُرُوطِهِنَّ ثُمَّ يَنْقَلِبْنَ إِلَى بُيُوتِهِنَّ حِينَ يَقْضِينَ الصَّلاَةَ لاَ يَعْرِفُهُنَّ أَحَدٌ مِنَ الْغَلَسِ  

muslim:645bḤarmalah b. Yaḥyá > Ibn Wahb > Yūnus > Ibn Shihāb > ʿUrwah b. al-Zubayr

The believing women observed the morning prayer with the Messenger of Allah ﷺ wrapped in their mantles. They then went back to their houses and were unrecognisable, because of the Messenger of Allah's ﷺ praying in the darkness before dawn.  

مسلم:٦٤٥bوَحَدَّثَنِي حَرْمَلَةُ بْنُ يَحْيَى أَخْبَرَنَا ابْنُ وَهْبٍ أَخْبَرَنِي يُونُسُ أَنَّ ابْنَ شِهَابٍ أَخْبَرَهُ قَالَ أَخْبَرَنِي عُرْوَةُ بْنُ الزُّبَيْرِ

أَنَّ عَائِشَةَ زَوْجَ النَّبِيِّ ﷺ قَالَتْ لَقَدْ كَانَ نِسَاءٌ مِنَ الْمُؤْمِنَاتِ يَشْهَدْنَ الْفَجْرَ مَعَ رَسُولِ اللَّهِ ﷺ مُتَلَفِّعَاتٍ بِمُرُوطِهِنَّ ثُمَّ يَنْقَلِبْنَ إِلَى بُيُوتِهِنَّ وَمَا يُعْرَفْنَ مِنْ تَغْلِيسِ رَسُولِ اللَّهِ ﷺ بِالصَّلاَةِ  

malik:1-4Yaḥyá > Mālik > Yaḥyá b. Saʿīd > ʿAmrah Bint ʿAbd al-Raḥman > ʿĀʾishah

Yahya related to me from Malik from Yahya ibn Said from Amra bint Abd ar-Rahman that A'isha, the wife of the Prophet ﷺ said, "The Messenger of Allah ﷺ used to pray subh and the women would leave wrapped in their garments and they could not yet be recognised in the darkness."  

مالك:١-٤وَحَدَّثَنِي يَحْيَى عَنْ مَالِكٍ عَنْ يَحْيَى بْنِ سَعِيدٍ عَنْ عَمْرَةَ بِنْتِ عَبْدِ الرَّحْمَنِ عَنْ عَائِشَةَ زَوْجِ النَّبِيِّ ﷺ أَنَّهَا قَالَتْ

إِنْ كَانَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ ﷺ لَيُصَلِّي الصُّبْحَ فَيَنْصَرِفُ النِّسَاءُ مُتَلَفِّعَاتٍ بِمُرُوطِهِنَّ مَا يُعْرَفْنَ مِنَ الْغَلَسِ  

ahmad:24096Sufyān > al-Zuhrī > ʿUrwah > ʿĀʾishah

"The women used to pray Subh with the Messenger of Allah ﷺ, wrapped in their wrappers, then they would return, and no one would recognize them because of the darkness." (Using translation from Nasāʾī 546)   

أحمد:٢٤٠٩٦حَدَّثَنَا سُفْيَانُ عَنِ الزُّهْرِيِّ عَنْ عُرْوَةَ عَنْ عَائِشَةَ

أَنَّ نِسَاءً مِنَ الْمُؤْمِنَاتِ كُنَّ يُصَلِّينَ مَعَ رَسُولِ اللهِ ﷺ الصُّبْحَ مُتَلَفِّعَاتٍ بِمُرُوطِهِنَّ ثُمَّ يَرْجِعْنَ إِلَى أَهْلِهِنَّ وَمَا يَعْرِفُهُنَّ أَحَدٌ مِنَ الْغَلَسِ  

ahmad:26222Yūnus And Surayj > Fulayḥ > ʿAbd al-Raḥman b. al-Qāsim > al-Qāsim b. Muḥammad > ʿĀʾishah

[Machine] The Prophet ﷺ used to pray Fajr (morning prayer) and then the believing women would leave wrapped in their outer garments, concealing themselves with what is known as a "ghalas" or, some of them do not recognize others.  

أحمد:٢٦٢٢٢حَدَّثَنَا يُونُسُ وَسُرَيْجٌ قَالَا حَدَّثَنَا فُلَيْحٌ عَنْ عَبْدِ الرَّحْمَنِ بْنِ الْقَاسِمِ عَنِ الْقَاسِمِ بْنِ مُحَمَّدٍ عَنْ عَائِشَةَ قَالَتْ

كَانَ رَسُولُ اللهِ ﷺ يُصَلِّي الصُّبْحَ فَيَنْصَرِفُ نِسَاءُ الْمُؤْمِنِينَ مُتَلَفِّعَاتٍ بِمُرُوطِهِنَّ مَا يُعْرَفْنَ مِنَ الْغَلَسِ أَوْ قَالَ لَا يَعْرِفُ بَعْضُهُنَّ بَعْضًا  

ذِكْرُ وَصْفِ صَلَاةِ الْغَدَاةِ الَّتِي كَانَ الْمُصْطَفَى ﷺ يُصَلِّي بِأُمَّتِهِ

ibnhibban:1498al-Ḥusayn b. Idrīs al-Anṣārī > Aḥmad b. Abū Bakr > Mālik > Yaḥyá b. Saʿīd > ʿAmrah > ʿĀʾishah

The Messenger of Allah ﷺ would say the Fajr prayer after which the women would depart wrapped up their woolen garments, being unrecognizable because of the darkness before dawn. (Using translation from Abū Dāʾūd 423)  

ابن حبّان:١٤٩٨أَخْبَرَنَا الْحُسَيْنُ بْنُ إِدْرِيسَ الْأَنْصَارِيُّ حَدَّثَنَا أَحْمَدُ بْنُ أَبِي بَكْرٍ عَنْ مَالِكٍ عَنْ يَحْيَى بْنِ سَعِيدٍ عَنْ عَمْرَةَ عَنْ عَائِشَةَ قَالَتْ

«إِنْ كَانَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ ﷺ لَيُصَلِّي الصُّبْحَ فَيَنْصَرِفُ النِّسَاءُ مُتَلَفِّعَاتٍ بِمُرُوطِهِنَّ مَا يُعْرَفْنَ مِنَ الْغَلَسِ»  

ذِكْرُ وَصْفِ صَلَاةِ الْغَدَاةِ الَّتِي كَانَ يُصَلِّيهَا الْمُصْطَفَى ﷺ بِأُمَّتِهِ

ibnhibban:1499Yūsuf b. Yaʿqūb al-Muqriʾ Biwāsiṭ > Muḥammad b. Khālid b. ʿAbdullāh > Ibrāhīm b. Saʿd > al-Zuhrī > ʿUrwah > ʿĀʾishah

[Machine] She said, "There were indeed women among the believers who used to pray with the Messenger of Allah ﷺ, covered in their outer garments, during the Fajr (dawn) prayer. Then they would return to their homes without being recognized due to their simplicity."  

ابن حبّان:١٤٩٩أَخْبَرَنَا يُوسُفُ بْنُ يَعْقُوبَ الْمُقْرِئُ بِوَاسِطَ قَالَ حَدَّثَنَا مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ خَالِدِ بْنِ عَبْدِ اللَّهِ قَالَ حَدَّثَنَا إِبْرَاهِيمُ بْنُ سَعْدٍ عَنِ الزُّهْرِيِّ عَنْ عُرْوَةَ عَنْ عَائِشَةَ

أَنَّهَا قَالَتْ «قَدْ كُنَّ نِسَاءٌ مِنَ الْمُؤْمِنَاتِ يُصَلِّينَ مَعَ رَسُولِ اللَّهِ ﷺ مُتَلَفِّعَاتٍ بِمُرُوطِهِنَّ فِي صَلَاةِ الْفَجْرِ ثُمَّ يَرْجِعْنَ إِلَى بُيُوتِهِنَّ مَا يُعْرَفْنَ مِنَ الْغَلَسِ»  

ذِكْرُ خَبَرٍ ثَانٍ يُصَرِّحُ بِصِحَّةِ مَا ذَكَرْنَاهُ

ibnhibban:1500ʿAbdullāh b. Maḥmūd b. Sulaymān al-Saʿdī > al-Ḥasan b. ʿAlī al-Ḥulwānī > Abū Usāmah > Muḥammad b. ʿAmr > al-Zuhrī > ʿUrwah > ʿĀʾishah

[Machine] "The Messenger of Allah ﷺ used to pray the Fajr prayer, and then the believing women would exit covered in their veils, and it could not be recognized who they were due to the darkness."  

ابن حبّان:١٥٠٠أَخْبَرَنَا عَبْدُ اللَّهِ بْنُ مَحْمُودِ بْنِ سُلَيْمَانَ السَّعْدِيُّ قَالَ حَدَّثَنَا الْحَسَنُ بْنُ عَلِيٍّ الْحُلْوَانِيُّ قَالَ حَدَّثَنَا أَبُو أُسَامَةَ قَالَ حَدَّثَنَا مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ عَمْرٍو قَالَ حَدَّثَنَا الزُّهْرِيُّ عَنْ عُرْوَةَ عَنْ عَائِشَةَ قَالَتْ

«كَانَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ ﷺ يُصَلِّي صَلَاةَ الصُّبْحِ ثُمَّ تَخْرُجُ نِسَاءُ الْمُؤْمِنِينَ بِمُرُوطِهِنَّ لَا يُعْرَفْنَ مِنَ الْغَلَسِ»