Veil over the mouth (litham), fiqh rulings

Litham, in lexicon, is the veil over the mouth or lip; its plural is lutham, tatallum is wearing it, and malatam is its place, the nose and what surrounds it ¹. Qinaʿ is a garment with which a woman covers her head and most of her face, and khimar is what a woman covers her head with ¹.

The jurists agree that covering the nose and mouth during prayer is disliked. Ibn al-Mundhir says every scholar he knew disliked it except al-Hasan, who allowed covering the mouth; Ibn Umar, Sa'id, al-Hasan al-Basri, al-Awza'i, Malik, Ahmad and Ishaq disliked it ¹.

The jurists hold that a woman's ihram is in her face, so she may not cover it. If she needs to cover it to block the sight of strangers, she lets a cloth fall over her face, away from the skin, as Aisha reported that riders passed them while they were in ihram and they drew their cloaks over their faces and uncovered them when the riders had passed ^{1 2}. A report says that a woman in ihram may wear any clothing except that touched by saffron or wars, and may not wear a veil or a face cover, but may let a cloth fall over her face if she wishes ². The detail is in the entry on ihram ².