"On the Day of Judgment, molten lead will be dropped in the eyes of a person who lustfully looks at a woman no matter what part of her he looks." Is there a hadith like that?

Dear Brother / Sister,

We have not been able to find a narration like that in hadith resources but a hadith included in "haram-halal" parts of fiqh books is as follows:

"On the Day of Judgment, molten lead will be dropped in the eyes of a person who lustfully looks at a non-Mahram woman’s beauty." (see Sarakhsi, Mabsut, XI/153)

"He who seeks to listen to the talk of a people (secretly) will have molten lead poured into his ears on the Day of Resurrection."

The hadith above is included in famous hadith resources and it is sound. (see Bukhari, Ta`bir 45; Abu Dawud, Adab 88)

It is necessary to interpret the hadith above – if it is sound – to be about the people whom Allah does not forgive, not about everybody. 

It is known that sins bigger than looking at a non-mahram woman with lust can be forgiven. If it is not forgiven, molten lead being dropped in the eyes that look at women lustfully is an appropriate penalty according to the rule, “The punishment is to be from the kind of deed.”

In fact, this issue has two aspects: The first one is men’s or women’s covering the parts of their bodies that need to be covered; the other is men’s or women’s not looking at the parts of the body that are haram to look at. From this point of view, a Muslim has to be careful about both aspects.

"O Prophet! Tell thy wives and daughters, and the believing women, that they should cast their outer garments over their persons (when abroad)..." (al-Ahzab, 33/59), 

“Say to the believing men that they should lower their gaze and guard their modesty: that will make for greater purity for them: And Allah is well acquainted with all that they do. And say to the believing women that they should lower their gaze and guard their modesty; that they should not display their beauty and ornaments except what (must ordinarily) appear thereof; that they should draw their veils over their bosoms...” (an-Nur 24/30-31)

In the verses above and similar ones, believing men and women are ordered both of them.

For instance, the Prophet (pbuh) addresses Hz. Ali and forbids the second looking that comes after the first coincidental looking. (Abu Dawud, Nikah 43; Tirmidhi, Adab 28) When Jarir b. Abdullah asks about the decree of looking suddenly, the Prophet orders him to turn his glance away. (Muslim, Adab, 45; Abu Dawud, Nikah, 43) The Prophet regards looking with lust as the fornication of the eye. (Bukhari, Istidhan, 12; Muslim, Qadar, 20, 21) He regards keeping the eye away from haram when one has to walk on a road as the right of the road. (Bukhari, Mazalim, 22; Abu Dawud, Adab, 12; Ahmad, NI/ 36, 47.) On the other hand, he regards not looking at haram as a means of attaining great rewards and feeling the pleasure of belief. (Ahmad, V/264.)

The hadiths above and similar ones make the Islamic scholars agree unanimously that it is fard for a man and a woman to cover the body parts that are haram for others to see.  

Man is a being that consists of a spirit and a body. The body needs halal and useful food and is to be protected from harmful and poisonous food; if it is not protected, it is affected badly and sometimes for a long time; the same thing is valid for the spirit. The spirit is to be fed by worshipping and dhikr, which are its food, and it is to be protected from material and spiritual harams. If it is not protected, it will be affected from harams based on their degrees and the spiritual mechanism of man (his faculties and spiritual receivers) will be harmed sometimes in the form of the break off a wire and sometimes by breaking into pieces (God forbid).

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