Clothing (Kitab Al-Libas)

كتاب اللباس

Chapter 35: A Slave Looking At The Hair Of His Mistress

Narrated Jabir

Umm Salamah asked the Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) permission for getting herself cupped. He commanded Abu Tibah to cup her. The transmitter said: I think he was her foster-brother or a boy not yet of age.

Chapter 36: Regarding The Statement Of Allah: "Old Male Servants Who Lack Vigour"

The tradition mentioned above has also been transmitted by 'Aishah through a different chain of narrators to the same effect.

Chapter 37: Regarding The Statement Of Allah: And Tell The Believing Women To Lower Their Gaze

Narrated Umm Salamah, Ummul Mu'minin

I was with the Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) while Maymunah was with him. Then Ibn Umm Maktum came. This happened when we were ordered to observe veil (purdah). The Prophet (ﷺ) said: Observe veil from him. We asked: Messenger of Allah! is he not blind? He can neither see us nor recognise us. The Prophet (ﷺ) said: Are both of you blind? Do you not see him? AbuDawud said: This was peculiar to the wives of the Prophet (ﷺ). Do you not see that Fatimah daughter of Qays passed her waiting period with Ibn Umm Maktum. The Prophet (ﷺ) said to Fatimah daughter of Qays: Pass your waiting period with Ibn Umm Maktum, for he is a blind man. You can put off your clothes with him.

Narrated 'Amr b. Suh'aib

On his father's authority, said that his grandfather reported the Prophet (ﷺ) said: When one of you marries his female servant to his slave or to his employee, he should not look at her private part below the navel and above the knees.

Abu Dawud said: The correct name is Sawwad b. Dawud al-Muzani al-Sairafi (and not Dawud b. Sawwad as mentioned in the chain). The narrator waki' misunderstood it.

Chapter 40: Regarding The Length Of The Hem For Women

The tradition mentioned above has also been transmitted by Umm Salamah from the Prophet (ﷺ) through a different chain of narrators.Abu Dawud said

Ibn Ishaq and Ayyub b. Musa transmitted it from Nafi' from Safiyyah.

Chapter 42: Whoever Reported That Skins Of Dead Animals Cannot Be Used

Narrated Abdullah ibn Ukaym

The letter of the Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) was read out to us in the territory of Juhaynah when I was a young boy: Do not make use of the skin or sinew of an animal which died a natural death.

Chapter 43: Skins Of Leopards And Predators

Abu al-Malih b. Usamah quoting his father said

The Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) forbade (the use of) the skins of beasts of prey.

Chapter 44: Wearing Sandals

Narrated Jabir ibn Abdullah

The Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) forbade that a man should put on sandals while standing.

Chapter 45: Regarding Bedding

Narrated Umm Salamah, Ummul Mu'minin

Her bedding was in front of the place of prayer of the Prophet (ﷺ).

Chapter 48: Images

Narrated Ali ibn AbuTalib

The Prophet (ﷺ) said: The angels do not enter a house which contains a picture, a dog, or a man who is impure by sexual defilement.

Narrated Jabir ibn Abdullah

The Prophet (ﷺ) ordered Umar ibn al-Khattab who was in al-Batha' at the time of the conquest (of Makkah) to visit the Ka'bah and obliterate all images in it. The Prophet (ﷺ) did not enter it until all the images were obliterated.

Chapter 44: Wearing Sandals

Narrated Anas

The sandals of the Prophet (ﷺ) had two thongs.

Narrated AbuHurayrah

The Prophet (ﷺ) said: When you put on (a garment) and when you perform ablution, you should begin with your right side.

Chapter 45: Regarding Bedding

Sa'id ibn Amr al-Qurashi quoting his father said

Ibn Umar (once) saw some fellow travellers of the Yemen. They had their saddles (on camels) of leather. He said: If anyone likes to see the fellow travellers most resembling to the Companions of the Messenger of Allah (ﷺ), he should see them.

Narrated Jabir

The Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) said to me: Have you made cushions ? I said: How can we afford cushions ? He said: Soon you will have cushions.

Narrated Aisha, Ummul Mu'minin

The bedding of the Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) consisted of leather stuffed with palm fibre.

Chapter 48: Images

Narrated Abu Talhat al-Ansari

I heard the Prophet (ﷺ) say: The angels do not enter a house which contains a dog or a picture. Zaid b. Khalid al-Juhani said to Sa'id b. Yasar al-Ansari, the transmitter of this tradition: Go with me to 'Aishah, Mother of Faithful, so that we ask about it. So we went and said to her: Mother of Faithful, Abu Talhah has transmitted to us a tradition so-and-so. Have you heard the Prophet (ﷺ) mentioning that ? She replied: No but I tell what I saw him doing. The Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) went on an expedition and I was waiting for his return. I got a carpet which I hung as a screen on a stick over the door. When he came I received him and said: Peace be upon you, Messenger of Allah, His mercy and His blessings. Praise to be Allah Who gave you dominance and respect. Then he looked at the house and saw the carpet; and he did not respond to me at all. I found (signs of) disapproval in his face. He then came to the carpet and tore it down. He then said: Allah has not commanded us to clothe stones and clay out of the sustenance He has given us. She said: I then cut it to pieces and made two pillows out of it and stuffed them with palm fibre, and he did not disapprove of it to me.

Narrated Ibn 'Abbas

Maimunah, wife of the Prophet (ﷺ) reported him as saying: Gabriel (peace be upon him) promised to visit me last night, but he did not visit me. Then it occurred to him that there was a pup under his bed. So he ordered and it was turned out. He then got water in his hand and sprinkled it on its place. When Gabriel (ﷺ) met him, he said: We do not enter a house which contains a dog or a picture. When the morning came, the Prophet (ﷺ) ordered to kill dogs. He ordered to kill the dog which guarded a small orchard, and left the dog which guarded the big orchard.

Narrated AbuHurayrah

The Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) said: Gabriel (ﷺ) came to me and said: I came to you last night and was prevented from entering simply because there were images at the door, for there was a decorated curtain with images on it in the house, and there was a dog in the house. So order the head of the image which is in the house to be cut off so that it resembles the form of a tree; order the curtain to be cut up and made into two cushions spread out on which people may tread; and order the dog to be turned out.

The Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) then did so. The dog belonged to al-Hasan or al-Husayn and was under their couch. So he ordered it to be turned out.

Abu Dawud said: Al-Nadd means a thing on which clothes are placed like a couch.

Chapter 41: Skin Of Dead Animals

Narrated Aisha, Ummul Mu'minin

The Prophet (ﷺ) ordered that the skins of the animals which had died a natural death should be used when they are tanned.