As-Salaf used to consider it a detested act to uncover one’s head, walk in the street and get into the mosque in such a state. This bad habit has actually got into our Islamic countries through colonization and muslims regretfully adopted it blindly and hence loosing most of their Islamic characteristics. This [had?th] (1) should not be taken as a pretext to abandon this Islamic tradition especially when doing Sal?t.

As for some Egyptian muslim brethren who claim that one is permitted to uncover his head [in Sal?t] like he does in Hajj, this is indeed a false analogy. Uncovering the head in Hajj is one of its rites that no other act of worship shares. Had this kind of analogy been correct, then uncovering one’s head in Sal?t would have been obligatory since it is so in Hajj. Those who claim the first part of this conditional clause should stick to its second part otherwise it should be totally abandoned and they had better do so’. (2)

It was not proved that he ( - ) did his Sal?t while uncovering his head. If he ( - ) had done so, it would have been related by the Sah?ba. Whoever claims that the prophet ( - ) did so must present the proof, for truth must always be followed. (3)

It is worth saying here that the one who does his Sal?t while uncovering his head, his Sal?t is correct although he has done a detested act as Al-Baghaw? and many other ‘Ulamah stated. (4)