It is narrated from Dawud bin Qais, may Allah have mercy on him, that he said: I saw the chambers of the pure wives, which were made of palm branches. From the outside, they were covered with hair-cloth. I think that the width of the house, from the door of the chamber to the door of the other house, was about six or seven handspans. When I estimated the house from inside, it was ten handspans. Its roof was about eight or seven handspans high. And when I stood at the door of Sayyidah Aisha, may Allah be pleased with her, I saw that it faced towards the west.