Jami' at-Tirmidhi
Jami` at-Tirmidhi 2707
حَدَّثَنَا قُتَيْبَةُ، حَدَّثَنَا ابْنُ لَهِيعَةَ، عَنْ عُبَيْدِ اللَّهِ بْنِ أَبِي جَعْفَرٍ، عَنْ أَبِي عَبْدِ الرَّحْمَنِ الْحُبُلِيِّ، عَنْ أَبِي ذَرٍّ، قَالَ قَالَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ صلى الله عليه وسلم " مَنْ كَشَفَ سِتْرًا فَأَدْخَلَ بَصَرَهُ فِي الْبَيْتِ قَبْلَ أَنْ يُؤْذَنَ لَهُ فَرَأَى عَوْرَةَ أَهْلِهِ فَقَدْ أَتَى حَدًّا لاَ يَحِلُّ لَهُ أَنْ يَأْتِيَهُ لَوْ أَنَّهُ حِينَ أَدْخَلَ بَصَرَهُ اسْتَقْبَلَهُ رَجُلٌ فَفَقَأَ عَيْنَيْهِ مَا غَيَّرْتُ عَلَيْهِ وَإِنْ مَرَّ رَجُلٌ عَلَى بَابٍ لاَ سِتْرَ لَهُ غَيْرِ مُغْلَقٍ فَنَظَرَ فَلاَ خَطِيئَةَ عَلَيْهِ إِنَّمَا الْخَطِيئَةُ عَلَى أَهْلِ الْبَيْتِ " . وَفِي الْبَابِ عَنْ أَبِي هُرَيْرَةَ وَأَبِي أُمَامَةَ . قَالَ أَبُو عِيسَى هَذَا حَدِيثٌ غَرِيبٌ لاَ نَعْرِفُهُ مِثْلَ هَذَا إِلاَّ مِنْ حَدِيثِ ابْنِ لَهِيعَةَ وَأَبُو عَبْدِ الرَّحْمَنِ الْحُبُلِيُّ اسْمُهُ عَبْدُ اللَّهِ بْنُ يَزِيدَ .
Unreviewed translation. All hadiths in this collection are available in five languages. Titles and introductions may remain in Arabic.
Abu Dharr reported that Allah’s Messenger said: ‘Whoever lifts a curtain and looks into a house before permission is granted, thereby seeing the private parts of its occupants, has committed a violation that was not lawful for him. If, when he looked in, a man had faced him and put out his eyes, I would not blame him. If a man passes by a doorway with no screen, and it is not closed, and looks in, there is no sin on him; the sin is on the people of the house.’
There are reports on this topic from Abu Hurayrah and Abu Umamah. Abu ‘Isa said: This is a gharib hadith; we know of a report like this only through the narration of Ibn Lahi‘ah. Abu ‘Abd al-Rahman al-Hubuli’s name was ‘Abd Allah ibn Yazid.
Notes and open questions — unreviewed
The Arabic describes the intruder as seeing the household’s ‘awrah/private parts; the English witness’s ‘seeks the nakedness’ overstates intention not explicitly stated in the text.
The final doorway clause is unusually worded in Arabic; rendered closely here as a doorway with no screen and not closed. The report is gharib through Ibn Lahi‘ah, as the source says.