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2174. Abū Naḍrah narrated that a Shaikh from Ṭufāwah said: “I stayed as a guest in the house of Abū Hurairah in Al-Madinah, and I never saw any of the Companions of the Prophet ﷺ more eager to please or serve his guest than him. Once, I was with him while he was lying on a bed, and he had a bag full of pebbles, or date-pits. And there was a black slave-girl of his (sitting on the floor) below him. He would perform Tasbīh with the stones, until he had finished what was in the bag, upon which he threw the bag at her upon that the slave-girl collected them and returned the bag to him. He then said: 'Should I not tell you about the Messenger of Allāh ﷺ and I?' I said: 'Yes!' He said: 'Once, I was cleaning my teeth (with a Siwāk) in the Masjid when the Messenger of Allāh ﷺ entered and said: 'Where is the lad from Daws (Abū Hurairah)?' three times. A man said: 'O Messenger of Allāh, he is over there in the corner of the Masjid, brushing his teeth.' So he walked towards me until he reached me. He placed his hand upon me, and said some good words. I stood up, and he walked to the place where he led the prayer. He then turned to face the congregation, and there were two rows of men and one row of women, or one row of men and two rows of women. He said: 'If Shaitān causes me to forget anything in the prayer, then let the people say Tasbīh, (i.e., say, Subḥān Allāh) and let the women clap.' He then led the people in prayer, and he didn't forget anything in it. He then said: 'Stay in your places, stay in your places..." — Mūsā (one of the narrators) added: "over here. Then, he praised Allāh and glorified him, and said, 'Amma ba'du' 'As to what follows —'" then the narrators were in accord: "He then faced the men and said: 'Is there any man among you who goes to his wife, closes the door, and draws the curtain, thus screening himself with the screen of Allāh?' They said: 'Yes.' He continued: 'Then he sits afterwards and says: "I did this, I did that?"' But they, too, remained silent at that. He then turned to the women and asked: "Are they any among you who discuss this?" But they remained silent. Then a young girl who had just passed puberty rose up on one of her knees, and stood up above the rest so that the Messenger of Allāh ﷺ could see her and listen to her, and said: 'O Messenger of Allāh, verily the men talk about this, and the women talk about it.' He said: 'Do you know what the example of that is? The example of that is like a female Shaitān who meets a male Shaitān, and he uses her to satisfy his desires while people look at them. Verily, the perfume of men is that whose scent is apparent and not its color. Verily, the perfume of women is that whose color is apparent and not its scent." — Abū Dāwūd: From here I memorized it from Mu'ammal and Mūsā: "Verily, let no man (sleep) with another man in a blanket, nor a woman with another woman, except if it be her son or father," and he mentioned a third, but I forgot it, and it is in the narration of Musad-dad, but I do not remember it as precisely as I would like. Mūsā said: "Ḥammād narrated to us from Al-Juraīrī, from Abū Naḍrah, from Aṭ-Ṭufāwī." (Da'if)