كتاب اللباسDress

Yahya related to me from Malik from Zayd ibn Aslam that Jabir ibn

Abdullah al-Ansari said, "We went out with the Messenger of Allah, may

Allah bless him and grant him peace, in the raid on the Banu Ammar

tribe." Jabir said, "I was resting under a tree when the Messenger of

Allah, may Allah bless him and grant him peace, came. I said,

'Messenger of Allah; come to the shade.' So the Messenger of Allah,

may Allah bless him and grant him peace, sat down, and I stood up and

went to a sack of ours. I looked in it for something and found a small

cucumber and broke it. Then I brought it to the Messenger of Allah,

may Allah bless him and grant him peace. He said, 'From where did you

get this?' I said, 'We brought it from Madina, Messenger of Allah.' "

Jabir continued, "We had a friend of ours with us whom we

used to equip to go out to guard our mounts. I gave him what was

necessary and then he turned about to go to the mounts and he was

wearing two threadbare cloaks of his. The Messenger of Allah, may

Allah bless him and grant him peace, looked at him and said, 'Does he

have two garments other than these?' I said, 'Yes, Messenger of Allah.

He has two garments in the bag.' I gave them to him. He said, 'Let him

go and put them on.' I let him go to put them on. As he turned to go,

the Messenger of Allah, may Allah bless him and grant him peace,

exclaimed, 'May Allah strike his neck. Isn't that better for him?' He

said (taking him literally), 'Messenger of Allah, in the way of

Allah.' The Messenger of Allah, may Allah bless him and grant him

peace, said, 'In the way of Allah.' " Jabir added, "The man was killed

in the way of Allah."

Yahya related to me from Malik that he heard that Umar ibn al-

Khattab said, "I love to look at a Qur'an reader in white garments."

Yahya related to me from Malik from Ayyub ibn Abi Tamim that Ibn

Sirin said, ''Umar ibn al-Khattab said, 'Allah has been generous to

you, so be generous to yourselves. Let a man wear a combination of his

garments.' "

Yahya related to me from Malik from Nafi that Abdullah ibn Umar

wore garments dyed with red earth and dyed with saffron.

Yahya said that he heard Malik say, "I disapprove of youths wearing

any gold because I heard that the Messenger of Allah, may Allah bless

him and grant him peace, forbade wearing gold rings, and I disapprove

of it for males old or young."

Yahya said, "I heard Malik say

about men wearing wraps dyed with safflower in their houses and

courtyards, 'I do not know that any of that is haram but I prefer

other garments than that.' "

Malik related to me from Hisham ibn Urwa from his father that

A'isha the wife of the Prophet, may Allah bless him and grant him

peace, dressed Abdullah ibn az-Zubayr in a shawl of silk which A'isha

used to wear.

Yahya related to me from Malik from Alqama ibn Abi Alqama that

his mother said, "Hafsa bint Abd ar-Rahman visited A'isha, the wife of

the Prophet, may Allah bless him and grant him peace, and Hafsa was

wearing a long thin head scarf. A'isha tore it in two and made a thick

one for her."

Yahya related to me from Malik from Muslim ibn Abi Maryam from

Abu Salih that Abu Hurayra said, "Women who are naked even though they

are wearing clothes, go astray and make others go astray, and they

will not enter the Garden and they will not find its scent, and its

scent is experienced from as far as the distance travelled in five

hundred years."

Yahya related to me from Malik from Yahya ibn Said from Ibn

Shihab that the Messenger of Allah, may Allah bless him and grant him

peace, stood up in the night and looked at the horizon of the sky. He

said, "What treasures has the night opened? What trials have occurred?

How many are dressed in this world and will be naked on the Day of

Rising. Warn the women in their rooms."

Yahya related to me from Malik from Abdullah ibn Dinar from

Abdullah ibn Umar that the Messenger of Allah, may Allah bless him and

grant him peace, said, "A person who drags his garment in arrogance

will not be looked at by Allah on the Day of Rising."

Yahya related to me from Malik from Abu'z-Zinad from al-Araj from

Abu Hurayra that the Messenger of Allah, may Allah bless him and grant

him peace, said, "On the Day of Rising, Allah the Blessed, the

Exalted, will not look at a person who drags his lower garment in

arrogance."

Yahya related to me from Malik from Nafi and Abdullah ibn Dinar

and Zayd ibn Aslam that all of them informed him from Abdullah ibn

Umar that the Messenger of Allah, may Allah bless him and grant him

peace, said, "On the Day of Rising, Allah will not look at a person

who drags his garment in arrogance."

Yahya related to me from Malik from al Ala ibn Abd ar-Rahman that

his father said, "I asked Abu Said al-Khudri about the lower garment.

He said that he would inform me with knowledge and that he had heard

the Messenger of Allah, may Allah bless him and grant him peace, say,

'The lower garment of the mumin should reach to the middle of his

calves. There is no harm in what is between that and the ankles. What

is lower than that is in the Fire. What is lower than that is in the

Fire. On the Day of Rising, Allah will not look at a person who trails

his lower garment in arrogance.' "

Yahya related to me from Malik from Abu Bakr ibn Nafi from his

father Nafi, the mawla of Ibn Umar that Safiyya bint Abi Ubayd

informed him that Umm Salama, the wife of the Prophet, may Allah bless

him and grant him peace, said that when the lower garment of women was

mentioned to the Messenger of Allah, he said, "She lets it down a

handspan." Umm Salama said, "If it leaves her uncovered?" He said,

"Then the length of a forearm and let her not increase it."

Yahya related to me from Malik from Abu'z-Zinad from al-Araj from

Abu Hurayra that the Messenger of Allah, may Allah bless him and grant

him peace, said, "Do not wear one sandal. Wear both of them or go with

both feet bare."

Yahya related to me from Malik from Abu'z-Zinad from al-Araj from

Abu Hurayra that the Messenger of Allah, may Allah bless him and grant

him peace, said, "When you put on sandals, begin with the right foot.

When you take them off, begin with the left foot. The right foot is

the first to be put in the sandal and the last to be taken out."

Yahya related to me from Malik from his paternal uncle Abu Suhayl

ibn Malik from his father that Kab al-Ahbar said to a man who took off

his sandals, "Why have you taken off your sandals? Perhaps you have

interpreted this ayat, 'Remove your sandals. You are in the pure

valley of Tuwa?' (Sura 20 ayat 12) Do you know what the sandals of

Musa were?"

Malik (the father of Abu Suhayl) said, "I do not

know what the man answered." Kab said, "They were made from the skin

of a dead donkey."

Yahya related to me from Malik from Abu'z-Zinad from al-Araj that

Abu Hurayra said, "The Messenger of Allah, may Allah bless him and

grant him peace, forbade two sales. Mulamasa, in which a man is

obliged to buy whatever he touches without any choice in the matter,

and munabadha, in which two men throw their garment to each other

without either seeing the other's garment. He also forbade two ways of

dressing. One in which a man sits with his legs drawn up to his chest

wrapped in one garment that does not cover his genitals, and the other

in which a man wraps a single garment over one arm and shoulder

restricting them."

Yahya related to me from Malik from Nafi from Abdullah ibn Umar

that Umar ibn al-Khattab saw a silk robe at the door of the mosque. He

said, "Messenger of Allah, would you buy this robe and wear it on

jumua and when envoys come to you?" The Messenger of Allah, may Allah

bless him and grant him peace, said, "Only a person who has no portion

in the next world wears this." Then the Messenger of Allah, may Allah

bless him and grant him peace, was brought some robes of the same

material and gave Umar ibn al-Khattab one of the robes. Umar said,

"Messenger of Allah, do you clothe me in it when you said what you

said about the robe of Utarid?" The Messenger of Allah, may Allah

bless him and grant him peace, said, "I did not give it to you to

wear." Umar gave it to a brother of his in Makka who was still an

idolater.

Yahya related to me from Malik that Ishaq ibn Abdullah ibn Abi

Talha said, "Anas ibn Malik said, 'I saw Umar ibn al-Khattab when he

was the amir of Madina. Three patches were sewn between his shoulders,

one patched over the other.' ''