Quote from: Wakas on February 24, 2016, 08:57:16 AMSometimes I like Wakas posts which made me enjoyable to read.
Actually, I just read the Arabic of that hadith (it says made covers/khumur with it). Thus, there is a possible explanation they could give, which is: their current headcovers were not long enough to cover the chest, thus they cut their waist sheets and made headcovers from them, which were then long enough to fulfil the alleged request.
In any case, the original point still stands about the plural khumur and the command being to cover the chest not head, see discussion:
http://free-minds.org/forum/index.php?topic=14616.msg135947#msg135947
