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Bigotry:
The Dark Danger

Fabricated Hadiths on the Subject of the

Head-Covering and Their Internal

Inconsistencies

As we have seen with all the evidence, verse 31 of Surat an-Nur,

which some people try to portray as evidence for the headscarf, in
fact contains no reference to the word "head-covering" at all. Howev-
er, with the inclusion of some false hadiths into the literature of
Islam, this misconception has spread and come down to the present
day. The false hadiths fabricated by fanatics are riddled with signif-

icant flaws of logic and contain many inconsistencies. Let us now
have a look at some examples:

Aisha (ra) said: "When verse 24:31 was revealed, the
women of the migrants from Mecca took their garments
and tore pieces of cloth from the edges of their skirts and
covered their heads with them." (Sahih Bukhari; Sunan
Abu Dawud, Beyhaqi, VII, 88)

Narrated Aisha, Ummul Mu'minin: May God have mercy
on the early immigrant women. When the verse "That they

should draw their veils over their bosoms" was revealed,
they tore their thick outer garments and made veils from
them." (Sunan Abu Dawud, Book 32, Hadith 4091)

Satiyya binti Shayba narrates this memory she heard from
Aisha (ra): We were with Aisha, talking about Quraishi
women and their virtues. Aisha: Verily, Quraishi women

have some virtues. But, I swear by God, I have never seen
any women more virtuous than the women of Ansar who

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