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Abdullaah ibn Mas’ood – Allaah be pleased with him – said:

Women are but an ‘awrah (something private to be covered). A woman might leave her house without there being any problem with her, but the Shaytaan seeks her out and says, “You will not pass buy anyone except that you will impress/please him.” A woman puts on her clothes and is asked where she is going, to which she replies, “To visit a sick person,” or “to attend a funeral”, or “to pray in the masjid”; but a woman never worships Allaah in the way she does when she worships Him in her house.

At-Tabaraanee. Graded saheeh by Shaykh Al-Albaanee in Saheeh At-Targheeb wa At-Tarheeb 1/84.