A man who is passed by a woman and looks at her: those who disliked that

Sayyiduna Jarir (may Allah be pleased with him) said: I asked the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) about the sudden (unintended) glance, and he said: "Turn your gaze away."

Al-'Ala' bin Ziyad said: It used to be said: Do not let your gaze follow even the beauty of a woman's cloak, for looking stirs desire in the heart.

Asim al-Ahwal said: Once al-Sha'bi recited the verse of the Qur'an: "Tell the believers to lower their gaze." I said to al-Sha'bi: "A man looks at a woman but does not see anything forbidden of her; what is the ruling?" He said: "Do you want to bore a hole in her with your eyes?"

Ata said: A glance that awakens desire in the heart has no good in it.

Sayyiduna Buraydah (may Allah be pleased with him) said: The Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) advised Sayyiduna Ali (may Allah be pleased with him): "If a glance falls (on a woman), do not follow it with a second, for the first glance is excused for you, but the second is not excused for you."

Musa al-Juhani (may Allah have mercy on him) said: I was with Sa'id bin Jubayr on a road. A woman, or a girl, came towards us, and all of us looked at her. Then Sa'id lowered his gaze, but I kept looking. Sa'id said to me: "For the first glance there is no reckoning, but for the second there is."

Qays said: It used to be said: There is no blame for the first glance, but if someone keeps stealing looks, he is to be blamed.

Abu al-Haytham said: A man asked Ibn Sirin on the road: "Is the first glance not allowed for me, after which I turn my gaze away from her?" He said: "Do you not read the Qur'an? Allah Almighty says: 'Tell the believers to lower their gaze,' and Allah Almighty says: 'Allah knows the treachery of the eyes and what the breasts conceal.'"

Sayyiduna Anas (may Allah be pleased with him) said: When you come face to face with a woman, keep your gaze lowered until she has passed.

Abu Qilabah said: The beauty of a woman will not harm you as long as you do not come to know her.

Sayyiduna Sa'd bin Abi Waqqas (may Allah be pleased with him) said: While I was circling the House (the Ka'bah), my eye fell on a woman, and her charm pleased me. I wanted to ask about her, but found that she was taken (married). The beauty of a woman does not harm you as long as you do not come to know her.

Tawus disliked that a man should look at a woman unless he is her husband or a mahram relative.

Ayyub (may Allah have mercy on him) said: Tawus would not travel with a caravan in which there were women.

It is narrated from Sayyiduna Ali (may Allah be pleased with him) that the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "O Ali (may Allah be pleased with him)! You have a treasure in Paradise, and you will attain both its ends. If a glance falls (on a woman), do not follow it with another, for the first glance is excused, but the second is not permitted."

Sayyiduna Ibn Abbas (may Allah be pleased with them both), explaining the verse of the Qur'an: "Allah knows the treachery of the eyes and what the hearts conceal," said: Sometimes a man is sitting among some people and a woman passes by. He makes the people believe that he has lowered his gaze; then, if he finds the people unmindful of him, he starts looking at the woman, and if he fears that they will notice him, he lowers his gaze. Allah Almighty knows the thoughts of his heart, that the man wishes to see even the hidden parts of the woman.

Sayyiduna Abu Musa (may Allah be pleased with him) said: That the smell of a carcass should fill my nostrils is dearer to me than that the scent of a woman should fill them.

Sayyiduna Abdullah (bin Mas'ud) (may Allah be pleased with him) said: That I should brush against a camel smeared with tar is dearer to me than that I should brush against a woman.

Sayyiduna Abu Musa (may Allah be pleased with him) said: Every eye that looks lustfully commits fornication.