1921 - Isḥāq ibn Wahb al-Wāsiṭī narrated to us: al-Walīd ibn al-Qāsim al-Hamdānī narrated to us: al-Aḥwaṣ ibn Ḥakīm narrated to us, from his father, and Rāshid ibn Saʿd and ʿAbd al-Aʿlā ibn ʿAdī, from ʿUtbah ibn ʿAbd al-Sulamī, who said: The Messenger of Allah, peace and blessings be upon him, said: "When one of you comes to his wife, let him cover himself and not strip naked like two donkeys."

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= "That one should be modest before Him," meaning: so cover yourself in obedience to Him and in seeking what He loves from you and what pleases Him. It does not mean to cover oneself from Him, for it is impossible to conceal oneself from Him, exalted be His remembrance. Al-Sindī said this.

(1) Its chain of transmission is weak due to the weakness of al-Aḥwaṣ ibn Ḥakīm.
It was also recorded by Ibn Qāniʿ in "Muʿjam al-Ṣaḥābah" 2/266-267, and al-Ṭabarānī in "al-Kabīr" 17/(315) via the path of al-Aḥwaṣ ibn Ḥakīm, from ʿAbd Allāh ibn Ghābir, from ʿUtbah ibn ʿAbd. In al-Ṭabarānī's chain, "from his father" was inserted after al-Aḥwaṣ, and Ibn Ghābir was corrupted to Ibn ʿĀmir, while it appears correctly in "Muʿjam Ibn Qāniʿ" and "Naṣb al-Rāyah" 4/246.
On this topic, from ʿAbd Allāh ibn Sarjis, recorded by al-Nasāʾī in "al-Kubrā" (8980), and its chain is weak, and al-Nasāʾī said: It is a rejected (munkar) ḥadīth.
And from ʿAbd Allāh ibn Masʿūd, recorded by Ibn Abī Shaybah in his "Musnad" as found in "Ittiḥāf al-Khiyarah" (4260), al-Bukhārī in "al-Tārīkh al-Awsaṭ" 2/151, al-Bazzār in his "Musnad" (1701), al-ʿUqaylī in "al-Ḍuʿafāʾ" 4/266-267 and 267, al-Haytham ibn Kulayb in his "Musnad" (593), al-Ṭabarānī in "al-Kabīr" (15443), Ibn ʿAdī in "al-Kāmil" 6/2448, al-Bayhaqī in "al-Sunan al-Kubrā" 7/193 and "al-Shuʿab" (7792) and (7793), and al-Khaṭīb in his "Tārīkh" 13/248, via the path of Mandal ibn ʿAlī, from al-Aʿmash, from Shaqīq ibn Salamah Abī Wāʾil, from ʿAbd Allāh ibn Masʿūd. Mandal is weak in ḥadīth, and he erred in it, as Sharīk al-Nakhaʿī explicitly stated, for he was with him in the gathering of al-Aʿmash, and ʿĀṣim al-Aḥwal was with al-Aʿmash, and ʿĀṣim narrated it from Abū Qilābah, from the Prophet, peace and blessings be upon him, as a disconnected (mursal) report.
We say: It was also recorded likewise by ʿAbd al-Razzāq in his "Muṣannaf" (10469), and Ibn Abī Shaybah 4/402, via two paths from ʿĀṣim al-Aḥwal. And Ayyūb al-Sakhtiyānī followed him in ʿAbd al-Razzāq's report (10470). See also "ʿIlal al-Rāzī" 1/426, and al-Dāraquṭnī 5/109. =