O Sisters! The best examples for you are in the Ummahaat al-Mu'mineen

بسم الله والحمد لله والصلاة والسلام على رسول الله ، وبعد

O Muslim sisters! Do you not have the best examples to follow in the Ummahaat al-Mu’mineen (Mothers of the Believers), the wives of the Prophet صلى الله عليه وسلم??!

Allaah تعالى says:

﴿وَقَرْنَ فِي بُيُوتِكُنَّ وَلَا تَبَرَّجْنَ تَبَرُّجَ الْجَاهِلِيَّةِ الْأُولَىٰ﴾

{And stay in your houses (O wives of the Prophet), and do not display yourselves like that of the times of ignorance…} [Surah al-Ahzaab (33): 33]

Imaam al-Qurtubee رحمه الله mentioned in his Tafseer:

It was said to Umm al-Mu’mineen, Sawdah رضي الله عنها: “Why do you not go for Hajj or make `Umrah like the way your sisters do?” She said: “I have already performed Hajj and `Umrah, and Allaah تعالى has commanded me that I should stay inside my house.”

The sub-narrator said: “By Allaah! She did not go out of her house except when her Janaazah (funeral) was taken out.” Allaah be pleased with her.

[al-Jaami` li Ahkaam al-Qur’aan (14/180-181)]