Ibn Majah

1؎: Because this is looking at a time of necessity, and in times of necessity, such action is permissible—just as it is correct and permissible for a judge and witnesses to look at a woman, similarly, it is permissible for a physician to look at the area that needs to be seen for treatment. This is the view of Ahl al-Hadith, al-Shafi‘i, Abu Hanifah, Ahmad, and the majority of scholars: that it is permissible to look at a woman whom one intends to marry. Imam Malik says that this is correct with the woman's permission; without her permission, it is not correct. And there is another narration from him that it is not correct at all. In this chapter, there is this hadith, the second is the hadith of Mughira radi Allahu anhu which is coming ahead, and the third is the hadith of Abu Hurairah radi Allahu anhu which is in Sahih Muslim: that a man came to the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam and said, "I have intended to marry an Ansari woman." The Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam said, "Have you seen her?" He replied, "No." The Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam said, "Go and look at her, for there is something in the eyes of the women of the Ansar." It happened just as the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam said, and there was great harmony with that woman.