Clothing (Kitab Al-Libas)

كتاب اللباس

Chapter 3: What Has Been Reported About The Qamis

Narrated Asma', daughter of Yazid,

The sleeve of the shirt of the Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) came to the wrist.

Chapter 5: A Garment Of Fame And Vanity

Narrated Abdullah ibn Umar

The Prophet (ﷺ) said: He who copies any people is one of them.

Chapter 6: Regarding Wearing Wool And Hair

'Aishah said

Narrated Utbah ibn AbdusSulami:

I asked the Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) to clothe me. He clothed me with two coarse clothes of linen.

Narrated Abu Burdah

My father said to me: My son, if you had seen us while we were with the Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) and the rain had fallen on us, you would have thought that our smell was the smell of the sheep.

Narrated Ishaq ibn Abdullah ibn al-Harith

The Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) purchased a suit of clothes for twenty she-camels and some more and he presented it to Dhu Yazan.

Chapter 9: What Has Been Reported Regarding Khazz

Narrated Sa'd

I saw a man riding on a white mule and he had a black turban of silk and wool. He said: The Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) put it on me. This is the version of Uthman, and there is the word akhbara in his tradition.

Chapter 10: What Has Been Reported About Wearing Silk

Narrated 'Abd Allaah b. 'Umar

'Umar b. al-Khattab saw that a striped robe containing silk was being sold at the the gate of the mosque. He said: Messenger of Allah, would that you purchased it and wore it on Friday and when a delegation came to you. The Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) said: Only he who has no portion in the next world wears this (silk). Then the Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) came in possession of some robes made of silk and gave one of them to 'Umar b. al-Khattab. 'Umar said: Messenger of Allah, you are clothing me with it, but you said about the robe of 'Utarid what you said. The Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) said: I did not give it to you so that you may wear it. So 'Umar al-Khattab gave it to his brother who was a polytheist in Mecca to wear it.

Ali said

A robe containing silk was presented to the Messenger of Allah (ﷺ). He then sent it to me. I wore it and came to him. I saw him looking angry in his face. He then said: I did not send it to you to wear. He ordered me and I divided it among my women.

Chapter 11: Whoever Regarded Silk As Disliked

Narrated 'Ali bin Abi Talib

The Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) forbade us to wear a Qassi garment, a garment dyed with safflower, gold rings, and reading the Qur'an while bowing.

'Ali said

It is forbidden to use purple saddle-clothes.

Narrated Ali ibn AbuTalib

The Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) forbade me to wear a gold ring, or a Qassi garment or the use purple saddle-cloths.

Chapter 17: Regarding Worn Out Clothes, And Washing Clothes

Narrated Jabir ibn Abdullah

The Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) paid visit to us, and saw a dishevelled man whose hair was disordered. He said: Could this man not find something to make his hair lie down? He saw another man wearing dirty clothes and said: Could this man not find something to wash his garments with.

Chapter 18: Regarding Dyeing With Yellow

Narrated Zayd ibn Aslam

Ibn Umar used to dye his beard with yellow colour so much so that his clothes were filled (dyed) with yellowness. He was asked: Why do you dye with yellow colour? He replied: I saw the Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) dyeing with yellow colour, and nothing was dearer to him than it. He would dye all his clothes with it, even his turban.

Chapter 20: Regarding Red

Hisham b. al-Ghaz said

The word mudarrajah mentioned in the previous tradition means a colour which is neither crimson nor pink.

Chapter 21: Regarding The Concession Allowing That (Red)

Narrated Al-Bara' bin 'Azib

The Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) had hair which reached the lobes of his ears, and I saw him wearing red robe. I did not see anything more beautiful than it.

Chapter 22: Regarding Black

Narrated Aisha, Ummul Mu'minin

I made a black cloak for the Prophet (ﷺ) and he put it on; but when he sweated in it and noticed the odour of the wool, he threw it away. The narrator said: I think he said: He liked good smell.

Chapter 1: What Is To Be Said When Putting On A New Garment

Narrated AbuSa'id al-Khudri

When the Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) put on a new garment he mentioned it by name, turban or shirt, and would then say: O Allah, praise be to Thee! as Thou hast clothed me with it, I ask Thee for its good and the good of that for which it was made, and I seek refuge in Thee from its evil and the evil of that for which it was made.

Abu Nadrah said: When any of the Companions of the Prophet (ﷺ) put on a new garment, he was told: May you wear it out and may Allah give you another in its place.

Chapter 3: What Has Been Reported About The Qamis

Narrated Umm Salamah, Ummul Mu'minin

The clothing which the Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) liked best was shirt.

Chapter 8: Wearing Coarse Clothes

Narrated Abdullah ibn Abbas

When the Haruriyyah made a revolt, I came to Ali (may Allah be pleased with him). He said: Go to these people. I then put on the best suit of the Yemen.

AbuZumayl (a transmitter) said: Ibn Abbas was handsome and of imposing countenance. Ibn Abbas said: I then came to them and they said: Welcome to you, Ibn Abbas! what is this suit of clothes? I said: Why are you objecting to me? I saw over the Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) the best suit of clothes.

Abu Dawud said: The name of Abu Zumail is Sammak b. al-Walid al-Hanafi.

Chapter 9: What Has Been Reported Regarding Khazz

Narrated Abdur Rahman ibn Ghanam al-Ash'ari

Abu Amir or Abu Malik told me--I swear by Allah another oath that he did not believe me that he heard the Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) say: There will be among my community people who will make lawful (the use of) khazz and silk. Some of them will be transformed into apes and swine.

Abu Dawud said: Twenty Companions of the Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) or more put on khazz. Anas and al-Bara' b. 'Azib were among them.