She narrated that the Messenger of Allah ﷺ met her one day and asked, "Where have you come from, Umm Darda?"She replied, "From the bathhouse."The Messenger of Allah ﷺ said to her, "There is no woman who removes her clothes anywhere but in her own home except that she tears the veil between herself and Allah."
أنها حدثت أن رسول الله ﷺ لقيها يوما فقال: من أين جئت يا أم الدرداء؟ فقالت: من الحمام فقال لها رسول الله ﷺ: ما من امرأة تنزع ثيابها إلا هتكت ما بينها وبين الله من ستر.
Imam Ahmad (27041) and Tabarani in al-Kabir (24/652) both narrated it through the route of Abdullah bin Wahb, who said, Haywa bin Shurayh informed me, who said, Abu Sakhr narrated to me that Yuhanis Abu Musa narrated to him, that Umm Darda narrated to him, and he mentioned the hadith. Haythami said in al-Majma (2771), "Ahmad and Tabarani narrated it with chains, and the narrators of one of them are the narrators of the Sahih."This hadith is among those that Ibn Jawzi included in Ilal Mutanahiya (1/341) and ruled to be void, based on the fact that the chain contains Abu Sakhr, whose name is Humayd bin Ziyad, whom Yahya declared daif, and based on the denial that bathhouses existed in the time of the Prophet ﷺ. Ibn Hajar responded to this in Qawl Musaddad (hadith 14), saying, "She may have used the word bathhouse to refer generally to whatever is used for washing, not the bathhouse known today, and mention of the bathhouse has come in several hadiths besides this one."I say, as for Abu Sakhr, who is Humayd bin Ziyad al-Kharrat, Daraqutni declared him thiqa, and Imam Ahmad, and Ibn Main in one narration, said, "There is no harm in him." The conclusion is that his hadith is hasan.This hadith fell out of the copy of Targhib wa Tarhib by Munziri, and the eminent scholar Albani, may Allah have mercy on him, recovered it in Sahih Targhib wa Tarhib (162) from the margin of the Zahiriyya copy, opposite the hadith of Abu Malih, and ruled it sahih.