Volume 1, Book 12, Number 824:
Narrated Ibn ‘Umar:
The Prophet said, “If your women ask permission to go to the mosque at night, allow them.”
Volume 1, Book 12, Number 825:
Narrated Um Salama:
(the wife of the Prophet) In the lifetime of Allah’s Apostle the women used to get up when they fin –
ished their compulsory prayers with Taslim. The Prophet and the men would stay on at their places
as long as Allah will. When the Prophet got up, the men would then get up.
Volume 1, Book 12, Number 826:
Narrated ‘Aisha:
When Allah’s Apostle finished the Fajr prayer, the women would leave covered in their sheets and
were not recognized owing to the darkness.
Volume 1, Book 12, Number 827:
Narrated ‘Abdullah bin Abi Qatada Al-Ansari:
My father said, “Allah’s Apostle said, “Whenever I stand for prayer, I want to prolong it but on
hearing the cries of a child, I would shorten it as I dislike to put its mother in trouble.”
Volume 1, Book 12, Number 828:
Narrated ‘Aisha:
Had Allah’s Apostle known what the women were doing, he would have forbidden them from go –
ing to the mosque as the women of Bani Israel had been forbidden. Yahya bin Said (a sub-narrator)
asked ‘Amra (another sub-narrator), “Were the women of Bani Israel forbidden?” She replied “Yes.”
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Volume 1, Book 12, Number 829:
Narrated Um Salama:
Whenever Allah’s Apostle completed the prayer with Taslim, the women used to get up immedi –
ately and Allah’s Apostle would remain at his place for someone before getting up. (The sub-narrator
(Az-Zuhri) said, “We think, and Allah knows better, that he did so, so that the women might leave
before men could get in touch with them).”
Volume 1, Book 12, Number 830:
Narrated Anas:
The Prophet prayed in the house of Um Sulaim; and I, along with an orphan stood behind him
while Um Sulaim (stood) behind us.
Volume 1, Book 12, Number 831:
Narrated ‘Aisha:
Allah’s Apostle used to offer the Fajr prayer when it was still dark and the believing women used
to return (after finishing their prayer) and nobody could recognize them owing to darkness, or they
could not recognize one another.