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2707. Abū Dharr narrated that the Messenger of Allāh ﷺ said: “Whoever lifts the curtain so that his sight enters the house before he was given permission, and he sees the nakedness of its inhabitants, then he has done something punishable which was not lawful for him to do. If it were that when he gazed into it, he was facing a man who lanced his eyes, there would be nothing wrong with him doing so. But if a man passes by a door that has no cover over it, and it is not closed and he looks, then there
is no sin on him, the sin is only on the inhabitants of the house.”
(Da'if)
There are narrations on this topic from Abū Hurairah and Abū Umāmah.
[Abū 'Eisā said:] This Hadīth is Gharīb, we do not know of it like this except as a narration of Ibn Lahī'ah. Abū 'Abdur-Raḥmān Al-Ḥubulī's name is 'Abdullāh bin Yazīd.
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The inhabitants of the house should keep their door closed and the door should have a curtain hung down; the person seeking permission should not stand in front of the door, he should seek permission rather standing on a side, he should not open the door or lift the curtain away before having been given the permission, lest he should see the household.
