How a woman wipes her head

Sa'id bin al-Musayyib said: For a woman and a man, the method of wiping the head is the same.

Nafi' said: I saw Safiyyah bint Abi Ubayd; when performing ablution, she put her hand inside her head-covering and wiped her forelock.

Abd al-Rahman bin Abi Layla said: A woman should put her hand inside her head-covering and wipe her forelock.

Ikrimah said: A woman wipes the two sides of her head.

Al-Hasan al-Basri said: When a woman has already wiped (her head) for the morning prayer, she wipes her forelock and the two sides of her head.

Ata said: When a woman wants to wipe her head, she should put her hand under her head-covering and wipe the front part of her head; that suffices her.

Hisham said that Fatimah bint al-Mundhir used to wipe the two sides of her head, and she had kept the company of the Mothers of the Believers.

Khalid bin Dinar said that Abu al-Aliyah was asked: "How should a woman wipe her head?" He said to his wife: "Tell them." So she passed both hands over the two sides of her head and said: "She does it like this."