Anas ibn Malik said: A certain slave girl came to see ‘Umar ibn Al-Khattab, who he knew from some of the Muhajireen or the Ansar, and she had on a jilbab that she was veiled with. He asked her: Have you been freed? She said no. He said: So what’s with the jilbab? Take it off your head; jilbabs are for the free women of the Believers. But she hesitated. So he came at her with a whip and struck her on the head until she threw off the jilbab.