• Allah has instructed the believers not to enter houses other than their own until they have sought permission before entering. • A Muslim man has the right to enter his house even without seeking permission to enter. • Part of perfect etiquette and kind treatment is for a man to seek permission even before entering the room where his wife is, lest he see her in a dishevelled state, or wearing scruffy clothes for doing housework, or similar scenarios in which she would not like him to see her. • If there is another of his Mahrams in his house apart from his wife, such as his mother, his daughter or his sister, then the correct scholarly view is that he should seek permission before entering.

1- The hadith about making du’a when looking in the mirror is weak in all its isnads and all of them except the hadith of Anas are extremely weak. The view that it is hasan is not correct because all its isnads are flimsy. 2- The du’a has been soundly narrated from the Prophet (blessings and peace of Allah be upon him) in general terms, without any mention of looking in the mirror.