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Originally Posted by IbnMardhiyah
I know that's been written in some places, but I highly doubt it's true - if I recall correctly, they used to take baths together.
And even if that case was true with just Aisha', I doubt it would be the same for his other wives. All of a man's body is 100% halal for his wife to look at, and vice versa. If that weren't the case, we'd know about it.
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I don't really like to talk about these things, but I just wanted to say that I think it is true.
In fact, when Adam and Hawwa were sent down to earth, the Qur'an says they had to cover their private parts with tree leaves. Allah (swt) even refers to the private parts as "saw2ah", the root word of which is "soo2", meaning something that is not nice or pleasant. Allah (swt) could have referred to it as "3awrah" instead, which is a more common word used many times in the Qur'an to point out what one can expose in front of one's spouse (or ma malakat aymanukum ... etc).
I don't know the Hanafi position on this, but I'm pretty sure I read somewhere that Imam al-Shaf3i said it's makruh to look at the nakedness of your spouse.
But of course, this is a matter of opinion and culture. Some cultures are just more conservative than others.