Those who said: when you enter it, enter it with a waist wrap

Al-Hasan bin Ubaydullah said: I was going to the bathhouse when Abu Sadiq saw me and said: Do you have a waist-wrap (izar)? For Sayyiduna Ali (may Allah be pleased with him) used to say: Whoever uncovers his private parts, the angel turns away from him.

Qatadah said: Sayyiduna Umar (may Allah be pleased with him) wrote this order: No one should enter the bathhouse without a waist-wrap.

Umar bin Abd al-Aziz wrote this order in a letter to the governor of Basrah: Forbid the people of your region from entering the bathhouse without a waist-wrap.

Sa'id bin Jubayr said: Entering the bathhouse without a waist-wrap is forbidden (haram).

Ziyad bin Abd al-Rahman said: I saw Abu Ja'far enter the bathhouse wearing a waist-wrap down to his knees, while there were also people in that bathhouse without a waist-wrap.

Muhammad (Ibn Sirin) used to consider it disliked for a man to enter the bathhouse without a waist-wrap, and he also considered it disliked for a man to enter wearing a waist-wrap while the other people are without one, because he would then commit a sin by seeing their private parts.

Sayyiduna Umar (may Allah be pleased with him) wrote to the commanders of the armies: No man should enter the bathhouse without a waist-wrap, and no woman should enter the bathhouse except because of illness.

Amr bin Maymun said: When one of you enters the bathhouse or the Euphrates, let him wear a waist-wrap or put on short drawers.

Umar bin Abd al-Aziz used to beat the owner of the bathhouse and anyone who entered the bathhouse without a waist-wrap.

Musa bin Ubaydah said: I saw Umar bin Abd al-Aziz flogging people for (covering themselves with only) a towel in the bathhouse, and he was also punishing the owner of the bathhouse.

Sayyidah Aishah (may Allah be pleased with her) said that the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) forbade men and women from entering the bathhouse; however, a sick woman and a woman in postnatal bleeding may enter the bathhouse.

It is narrated from Tawus that the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) said: Whoever enters the bathhouse should cover his private parts.

Habib said: Ata, Tawus and Mujahid entered the bathhouse and applied depilatory lime (nurah) to their bodies in it.