Al-Matalib al-'Aliyah 178 — The bathhouse and the dislike of nakedness

It is narrated from Sayyiduna Abdullah bin Umar (may Allah be pleased with them both) that when he entered the hammam (public bathhouse), the manager or owner of the hammam would apply 'nurah' (a lime paste for removing hair) to him, and when, while applying the paste, he reached his 'haqw' (the place around the waist where the waist-wrap is tied, or the area to be covered), he would say to the owner of the hammam: "Now go out from here."
Imam Ibn Abi Shaybah narrated this report in his book 'al-Musannaf'; the narrator Atiyyah al-Awfi in its chain is da'if (weak) according to the majority of hadith scholars, but it is established by other authentic proofs that guarding modesty and covering the private parts is obligatory even in the bathhouse.