The Book of Adornment

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Ziyad bin Ayyub informed me; Ali bin Ghurab narrated to us; Bayhas bin Fahdan narrated to us; Abu Shaykh reported to us: I heard Ibn Umar say: The Messenger of Allah forbade wearing gold except in small pieces. Abu Abd al-Rahman said: ‘The narration of al-Nadr is closer to what is correct, and Allah, Exalted is He, knows best.’

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Muhammad bin Ma'mar informed us; Habban narrated to us; Salm bin Zarir narrated to us; Abd al-Rahman bin Tarafah narrated to us, from his grandfather Arfajah bin As'ad, whose nose was injured on the day of al-Kulab in pre-Islamic times. He fashioned a nose from silver, but it developed an unpleasant smell, so the Prophet ordered him to fashion a nose from gold.

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Qutaybah informed us; Yazid bin Zuray narrated to us, from Abu al-Ashhab, who said: Abd al-Rahman bin Tarafah narrated to me, from Arfajah bin As'ad bin Karb—he said, ‘And he was his grandfather’—who told me that he had seen his grandfather say: ‘My nose was injured on the day of al-Kulab in pre-Islamic times. I fashioned a nose from silver, but it developed an unpleasant smell, so the Prophet ordered him to make it from gold.’

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Muhammad bin Yahya bin Muhammad bin Kathir al-Harrani informed us; Sa'id bin Hafs narrated to us; Musa bin A'yan narrated to us, from Isa bin Yunus, from al-Dahhak bin Abd al-Rahman, from Ata al-Khurasani, from Sa'id bin al-Musayyib, who said: Umar said to Suhayb, ‘Why do I see you wearing a gold ring?’ He replied, ‘Someone better than you saw it on me and did not criticize me.’ He asked, ‘Who was that?’ He replied, ‘The Messenger of Allah.’

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Ali bin Hujr informed us, from Isma'il, from Abdullah bin Dinar, from Ibn Umar, who said: The Messenger of Allah acquired a gold ring and wore it. The people then made gold rings. The Messenger of Allah said, ‘I used to wear this ring, but I will never wear it again.’ He cast it away, and the people cast their rings away.

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Qutaybah informed us; Abu al-Ahwas narrated to us, from Abu Ishaq, from Hubayrah bin Yarum, who said: Ali said: The Prophet forbade me from wearing a gold ring, qassiy cloth, red mayathir (ornamental saddle cushions), and al-jia'ah (a barley drink).

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Muhammad bin Adam informed me, from Abd al-Rahim, from Zakariyya, from Abu Ishaq, from Hubayrah, from Ali, who said: The Messenger of Allah forbade gold rings, qassiy cloth, and red mayathir (ornamental saddle cushions).

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Muhammad bin Abdullah bin al-Mubarak informed us; Yahya—he was Ibn Adam—narrated to us; Zuhayr narrated to us, from Abu Ishaq, from Hubayrah, who heard Ali say: The Messenger of Allah forbade the gold ring, the red maytharah (ornamental saddle cushion), qassiy garments, and al-jia'ah, a drink made from barley and wheat; he mentioned its potency. Ammar bin Ruzayq contradicted him: he narrated it from Abu Ishaq, from Sa'sa'ah, from Ali.

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Muhammad bin Abdullah bin al-Mubarak informed us; Yahya bin Adam narrated to us; Ammar bin Ruzayq narrated to us, from Abu Ishaq, from Sa'sa'ah bin Suhan, from Ali, who said: The Messenger of Allah forbade me from the gold ring, qassiy cloth, maytharah (ornamental saddle cushion), and al-jia'ah (a barley drink). Abu Abd al-Rahman said: ‘The preceding report is closer to what is correct.’

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Ishaq bin Ibrahim informed us; Ubaydullah bin Musa reported to us; Isra'il reported to us, from Isma'il bin Sumay', from Malik bin Umayr, from Sa'sa'ah bin Suhan, who said: I said to Ali, ‘Tell us what the Messenger of Allah forbade you from.’ He said, ‘He forbade me from gourd vessels, hantam jars, gold rings, wearing silk, qassiy cloth, and red mayathirah (ornamental saddle cushions).’

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Abd al-Rahman bin Ibrahim—Duhaim—narrated to us; Marwan, who was Ibn Mu'awiyah, narrated to us; Isma'il, who was Ibn Sumay' al-Hanafi, narrated to us, from Malik bin Umayr, who said: Sa'sa'ah bin Suhan came to Ali and said, ‘Tell us what the Messenger of Allah forbade you from.’ He said, ‘The Messenger of Allah forbade us from gourd vessels, hantam jars, naqir (hollowed palm-trunk vessels), and al-jia'ah (a barley drink); and he forbade us from gold rings, wearing silk, qassiy cloth, and red mayathirah (ornamental saddle cushions).’

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Qutaybah bin Sa'id informed us; Abd al-Wahid narrated to us, from Isma'il bin Sumay', from Malik bin Umayr, who said: Sa'sa'ah bin Suhan said to Ali, ‘Commander of the faithful, tell us what the Messenger of Allah forbade you from.’ He said, ‘The Messenger of Allah forbade us from gourd vessels, hantam jars, and al-jia'ah (a barley drink), and from gold rings, wearing silk, and red mayathirah (ornamental saddle cushions).’ Abu Abd al-Rahman said: ‘The narration of Marwan and Abd al-Wahid is more correct than the narration of Isra'il.’

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Abu Dawud informed us; Abu Ali al-Hanafi and Uthman bin Umar narrated to us. Abu Ali said, ‘He narrated to us,’ while Uthman said, ‘He reported to us’: Dawud bin Qays, from Ibrahim bin Abdullah bin Hunayn, from his father, from Ibn Abbas, from Ali, who said: ‘My beloved forbade me from three things—I do not say that he forbade the people: he forbade me from wearing a gold ring, from wearing qassiy cloth, and from wearing heavily safflower-dyed garments; and I do not recite while prostrating or bowing.’ Al-Dahhak bin Uthman corroborated him.

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Al-Hasan bin Dawud al-Munkadiri informed us; Ibn Abi Fudayk narrated to us, from al-Dahhak, from Ibrahim bin Hunayn, from his father, from Abdullah bin Abbas, from Ali, who said: The Messenger of Allah forbade me—and I do not say that he forbade you—from wearing a gold ring, wearing qassiy cloth, wearing heavily dyed and safflower-dyed garments, and reciting while bowing.

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Muhammad bin Abdullah bin Abd al-Rahim al-Barqi informed us; Abu al-Aswad narrated to us; Nafi bin Yazid narrated to us, from Yunus, from Ibn Shihab, from Ibrahim, whose father told him that he heard Ali say: The Messenger of Allah forbade me from reciting while bowing, and from wearing gold and safflower-dyed garments.

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Al-Hasan bin Qaza'ah informed us; Khalid bin al-Harith narrated to us; Muhammad bin Amr narrated to us, from Ibrahim bin Abdullah bin Hunayn, from his father, who said: I heard Ali say: The Messenger of Allah forbade me—and I do not say that he forbade you—from the gold ring, qassiy cloth, safflower-dyed garments, and reciting while I am bowing.

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Harun bin Muhammad bin Bakkar bin Bilal informed me, from Muhammad bin Isa—he was Ibn al-Qasim bin Sumay'—who said: Zayd bin Waqid narrated to us, from Nafi, from Ibrahim, the client of Ali, from Ali, who said: The Messenger of Allah forbade me from wearing a gold ring, safflower-dyed garments, qassiy cloth, and reciting during the bowing position.

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Abu Bakr bin Ali informed me; Ibrahim bin al-Hajjaj narrated to us; Hammad bin Salamah narrated to us, from Ubaydullah bin Umar, from Nafi, from Ibn Hunayn, the client of Ibn Abbas, that Ali said: The Messenger of Allah forbade me from wearing qassiy cloth, safflower-dyed garments, and a gold ring.

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Isma'il bin Mas'ud informed us; Bishr—he was Ibn al-Mufaddal—narrated to us; Ubaydullah narrated to us, from Nafi, from Ibn Hunayn, the client of Ali, from Ali (may Allah be pleased with him), who said: The Messenger of Allah forbade me from four things: wearing a gold ring, wearing qassiy cloth, reciting the Qur'an while bowing, and wearing safflower-dyed garments. Ayyub agreed with him, except that he did not name the client.

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Al-Husayn bin Mansur bin Ja'far al-Naysaburi informed us; Hafs bin Abd al-Rahman al-Balkhi narrated to us; Sa'id narrated to us, from Ayyub, from Nafi, from a client of al-Abbas, that Ali said: The Messenger of Allah forbade me from wearing safflower-dyed garments, qassiy cloth, and a gold ring, and from reciting while I am bowing.