Chapter: Looking at the Nakedness of One's Wife

• I asked Ishaq, saying: "May a slave-woman depilate (using lime/depilatory) her master?" He said: "That is severe [an issue]," and he mentioned from Makhul that his servant used to depilate him. I said: "What about a free woman depilating her husband?" He said: "The same," and he granted a concession in it. Ishaq mentioned the hadith of the Prophet (peace and blessings of Allah be upon him): "Guard your nakedness except from your wife or those whom your right hand possesses."

• I said to Ishaq: "May a man strip his wife or his slave-woman, and look at her while she is naked?" He said: "Avoiding that is safer, but if he does it, there is no blame upon him."

392 - 'Amr ibn 'Uthman narrated to us, saying: Baqiyyah ibn al-Walid narrated to us, saying: 'Utbah ibn Abi Hakim narrated to me, saying: Sulayman ibn Musa narrated to me—and I asked him about a man looking at his wife's private part—so Sulayman said: "I asked 'Ata' about that, and he said: 'A'ishah, the wife of the Prophet (peace and blessings of Allah be upon him), narrated to me in this house, with a screen between us and her, and she said: "I and my beloved [the Prophet] used to bathe from a single vessel, our hands alternating in it." He [Sulayman] said: "And she pointed to a vessel in the house the size of a faraq; six qist.""