Bk 24 Pertaining to Clothes and Decoration
(Kitab Al−Libas wa'l−Zinah)
Chapter 1: THE USE OF GOLD AND SILVER VESSELS IS FORBIDDEN TO
MEN AND WOMEN AND IT IS ALSO PROHIBITED TO DRINK IN THEM Book,
Number 5126:
Umm Salama, the wife of Allah's Apostle (may peace be upon
him), said: He who drinks in the vessel of silver in fact
drinks down in his belly the fire of Hell.
Bk 39, Number 5127:
This hadith has been narrated on the authority of 'Ubaidullah
through other chains of transmitters: He who eats or drinks in
the vessel of silver and gold, − but there is no mention in
any one of them of the words pertaining to eating and gold.
Bk 39, Number 5128:
Abd al−Rahman reported on the authority of his mother's sister
Umm Salama who said that Allah's Messenger (may peace be upon
him) said: He who drank in vessels of gold or silver he in
fact drank down in his belly the fire of Hell.
Bk 39, Number 5129:
Mu'awiya b. Suwaid b. Muqarrin reporxed: I visited al−Bara' b.
'Azib and heard him say: Allah's Messenger (may peace be upon
him) commanded us to do seven things and forbade us to do
seven (things). He commanded us to visit the sick, to follow
the funeral procession, to answer the sneezer, to fulfil the
vow, to help the poor, to accept the invitation and to greet
everybody, and he forbade us to wear rings or gold rings, to
drink in silver (vessels), and to use the saddle cloth made of
red silk, and to wear garments made of Qassi material, or
garments made of silk or brocade and velvet.
Bk 39, Number 5130:
This hadith has been reported on the authority of Ash'ath b.
Sulaim with the same chain of transmitters but with a slight
change of wording that he made no mention of:" to fulfil the
vows" but substituted these words:" finding of the lost
articles".
Bk 39, Number 5131:
This hadith has been narrated on the authority of Ash'ath b.
Abu ashSha'tha' with the same chain of transmitters (and with
these words): There is no doubt about the words: To fulfil the
vows were mentioned and this addition had been made in the.
hadith: (The Holy Prophet) forbade drinking in silver vessels,
for one who drinks (in them) in this world would not drink (in
them) in the Hereafter.
Bk 39, Number 5132:
This hadith has been narrated on the authority of Ash'ath b.
Sulaim with the same chain of transmitters but with this
difference that instead of the words: Ifsha as−Salam
(spreading the salutations), he substituted the words Radd
as−Saldm (i. e. responding to the words of salutation) and he
said: He forbade (the use of) gold ring.
Bk 39, Number 5133:
This hadith has been narrated on the auttiniity of Ash'ath b.
Sulaim with the same chain of transmitters but the words
(pertaining to) Ifsha as−Salam and the (use) of gold ring have
been reported without doubt.
Bk 39, Number 5134:
'Abdullah b. Ukaim reported: While we were with Hudhaifa in
Mada'in he asked for water. A villager brought a drink for him
in a silver vessel. He (Hudhaifa) threw it away saying: I
inform you that I have already conveyed to him that he should
not serve me drink in it (silver vessel) for Allah's Messenger
(may peace be upon him) had said: Do not drink in gold and
silver vessels, and do not wear brocade or silk, for these are
meant for them (the non−believers) in this world, but they are
meant for you in the Hereafter on the Day, of Resurrection.
Bk 39, Number 5135:
This badith has been reported on the authority of 'Abdullah b.
Ukaim with a slight variation of wording.
Bk 39, Number 5136:
This hadith has been narrated on the authority of lbn 'Ukaim
through another chain of transmitters, but in this hadith no
mention is made of the words:, On the Day of Resurrection"
Bk 39, Number 5137:
Shu'ba reported from al−Hakam that he heard 'Abd al−Rahmin (i.
e. Ibn Abu Laila) as saying: I personally saw Hudhaifa asking
for water in Mada'in and a man giving it to him in a silver
vessel. The rest of the hadith is the same.
Bk 39, Number 5138:
This badith has been narrated on the authority of Shu'ba
through another chain of transmitters. but there is no mention
of the fact: ', I personally saw him" in this hadith.
Bk 39, Number 5139:
This hadith has been reported on the authority of Hudhaila
with the same chain of transmitters.
Bk 39, Number 5140:
'Abd al−Rahmin b. Abu Laili reported that Hudhaifa asked for
water and a Magian gave him water in a silver vessel,
whereupon he said: I heard Allah's Messenger (may peace be
upon him) as saying: Do not wear silk or brocade and do not
drink ifi vessels of gold and silver, and do not eat in the
dishes made of them (i. e. gold and silver), for these are for
them (the non−believers) in this world.
Bk 39, Number 5141:
Ibn Umar reported that Umar b. Khattab saw (some one selling)
the garments of silk at the door of the mosque, whereupon he
said: Allah's Messenger, would that you buy it and wear it for
the people on Friday and for (receiving) the delegations when
they come to you? Upon this. Allah's Messenger (may peace be
upon him) said: go who wears it has no share (of reward) in
the Hereafter. Then these garments were sent to Allah" s
Messenger (may peace be upon him), and he presented one of
these silk garment to Umar. Thereupon Umar said: You make me
wear (this silk garment) Whereas you said about the silk
garment of Utarid (the person who had been busy selling this
garment at the door of the mosque) what you had to say,
whereupon Allah's Messenger (may peace be upon him) said: I
have not presented you this for wearing it (but to make use of
its price) ; so 'Umar presented it to his polytheist brother
in Mecca.
Bk 39, Number 5142:
This hadith has been narrated by Ibn Umar through another
chain of transmitters.
Bk 39, Number 5143:
Ibn Umar reported that Umar saw Utarid al−Tamimi standing in
the market (and selling) the silk garments, and he was the
person who went to (courts of) kings and got (high prices) for
these garments from them. Umar said: Allah's Messenger I saw
'Utarid standing in the market with a silk garment; would that
you buy and wear it for (receiving) the delegations of Arabs
when they visit you? I (the narrator) said: I think he ('Umar)
also said: You may wear it on Friday (also). Thereupon,
Allah's Messenger (may peace he upon him) said: He who wears
silk in this world has no share in the Hereafter. Later on
when these silk garments were presented to Allah's Massenger
(may peace be upon him) he presented one silk garment to 'Umar
and presented one also to Usama b. Zaid and gave one to 'Ali
b. Abu 'Talib. saying: Tear them and make head coverings for
your ladies. 'Umar came carrying his garment and said: Allah's
Messenger, you have sent it to me, whereas you had said
yesterday about the (silk) garment of Utarid what you had to
say. He (the Holy Prophet) said: I have not sent it to you
that you wear it, but I have sent It to you so that you may
derive benefit out of it; and Usama (donned) the garment
(presented to him) and appeared to be brisk, whereupon Allah's
Apostle (may peace be upon him) looked at him with a look by
which he perceived that the Messenger of Allah (may peace be
upon him) did not like what he had done. He said: Allah's
Messenger. why is it that you look at me like this. whereas
you yourself presented it to me? He said: I never sent it to
you to wear it, but I sent It to you so that you may tear it
and make out head covering for your ladies.
Bk 39, Number 5144:
Abdullah b. Umar reported: 'Umar b. at−Khattab found a silk
garment being sold in the market; he purchased it and brought
it to Allah's Messenger (may peace be upon him) and said:
Allah's Messenger, get it and adorn yourself (by wearing it)
on the 'Id (days) and for the delegation. Thereupon, Allah's
Messenger (may peace be upon him) said: That is the dress of
one who has no share (in the Hereafter). 'Umar stayed there so
long as Allah wished. Then Allah's Messenger (may peace be
upon him) sent him a silk cloak. 'Umar came back with that to
Allah's Messenger (may peace be upon him) and said: Allah's
Messenger. you said that it is the dress of one who has no
share in the Hereafter, but then you sent it to me. Thereupon,
Allah's Messenger (may peace be upon him) said: You sell it
and meet your need (with its proceeds).
Bk 39, Number 5145:
This hadith has been narrated on the authority of Ibn Shihab
with the same chain of transmitters.
Bk 39, Number 5146:
lbn 'Umar reported that 'Umar saw a person of the tribe of
'Utirid selling a garment made of brocade or silk and said to
Allah's Messenger (may peace be upon him): Would that you buy
it? Thereupon he (the Holy Prophet) said: He who wears it has
no share for him in the Hereafter. Then Allah's Messenger (may
peace be upon him) was presented with a striped silk garment
and he sent it to him ('Umar). He (, Umar) said: You sent it
to me whereas I heard from you about it what you had to say,
whereupon he (Allah's Messenger) said: I sent it to you so
that you may benefit by it.
Bk 39, Number 5147:
This hadith has been narrated on the authority of Ibn Umar
through another chain of transmitters but with a slight
variation of wording (and the words are that the Holy Prophet)
said: I sent it to you so that you might derive benefit from
it. but I did not send it to you to wear it.
Bk 39, Number 5148:
Ibn 'Umar reported that 'Umar saw a person with a garment of
brocade and he brought it to Allah's Apostle (may peace he
upon him) −the rest of the hadith is the same, except for the
words that he (the Holy Prophet) said: I sent it to you that
you might get money thereby.
Bk 39, Number 5149:
Abdullah. the freed slave of Asma' (the daughter of Abu Bakr).
the maternal uncle of the son of 'Ata, reported: Asma' sent me
to 'Abdullah b. 'Umar saying: The news has reached me that you
prohibit the use of three things: the striped robe. saddle
cloth made of red silk. and the fasting in the holy month of
Rajab. 'Abdullah said to me: So far as what you say about
fasting in the month of Rajab, how about one who observes
continuous fasting? −and so far as what you say about the
striped garment, I heard Umar b. Khatab say that he had heard
from Allah's Messenger (may peace be upon him): He who wears
silk garment has no share for him (in the Hereafter), and I am
afraid it may not be that striped garment; and so far as the
red saddle clotb is concerned that is the saddle cloth of
Abdullah and it is red. I went back to Asma' and informed her.
whereupon she said: Here is the cloak of Allah's Messenger
(may peace be upon him). and she brought out to me that cloak
made of Persian cloth with a hem of brocade, and its sleeves
bordered with brocade and said: This wall Allah's Messenger's
cloak with 'A'isha until she died, and when she died. I got
possession of it. The Apostle of Allah (may peace be upon him)
used to wear that, and we waslied it for the sick and sought
cure thereby.
Bk 39, Number 5150:
Khalifa b. Ka'b AbCi Dhubyan reported: I heard 'Abdullah b.
Zubair addressing the people and saying: Behold! do not dress
yuor women with silk clothes for I heard 'Umar b. Khattab as
sayinp that he had heard Allah's messenger (may peace be upon
him) as saying: Do not wear silk, for one who wear it in this
world will not wear it in the Hereafter.
Bk 39, Number 5151:
'Asim al−Abwal reported on the authority Abu Uthman saying:
'Umar wrote to us when we were in Adharba'ijan saying: 'Utba
b. Farqad, this wealth is neither the result of your own
labour nor the result of the labour of your father, nor the
result of the labour of your mother, so feed Muslims at their
own places as you feed (members of your family and yourselves
at your own residence), and beware of the life of pleasure,
and the dress of the polytheists and wearing of silk garments,
for Allah's Messenger (may peace be upon him) forbade the
wearing of silk garments, but only this much, and Allah's
Messenger (may peace be upon him) raised his. forefinger and
middle finger and he joined. them (to indicate that only this
much silk can be allowed in the dress of a man). 'Asim said
also: This is what is recorded in the lette., (sent to us),
and Zuhair raised his two fingers (to give an idea of the
extent to which silk may be used).
Bk 39, Number 5152:
This hadith has been transmitted on the authority of 'Asim.
Bk 39, Number 5153:
Abu 'Uthman reported: While we were with 'Utba b. Farqad there
came a letter of 'Umar (containing the instructions) that
Allah's Messenger (may peace be upon him) had said: None
should wear silk (with the exception of so much) but he will
have nothing of it in the Hereafter. Abu 'Uthman said: To the
extent of two fingers which are close to the thumb, and I was
shown the (silk) borders of the Tayalisa mantle (which were
about two fingers in breadth and I saw them.
Bk 39, Number 5154:
Qatada reported: I heard Abe 'Uthman al−Nahdi as saying: There
came to us a letter of 'Umar as we were in Adharba'ijan or in
Syria in the company of 'Utba b. Farqad (and the letter ran
thus): After (usual praise and glorification of Allah) it is
stated that Allah's Messenger (may peace be upon him) has
forbidden the use of silk btit to the extent of these two
fingers, and Abu Uthman said: We at once understood by these
words that he meant (silk) patterns on (the cloth).
Bk 39, Number 5155:
This hadith has been reported on the authority of Qatada but
there is no mention of the words of Abd Uthman.
Bk 39, Number 5156:
Suwaid b. Ghafala said: 'Umar addressed us at a place known as
Jabiya (Syria) and he said: Allah's Apostle (may peace be upon
him) forbade us the wearing of silk but to the extent of two
or three fingers or four fingers.
Bk 39, Number 5157:
This hadith has been narrated on the authority of Qatada with
the same chain of transmitters.
Bk 39, Number 5158:
Jabir b. Abdullah reported that one day Allah's Apostle (may
peace be upon him) put on a cloak made of brocade, which had
been presented to him. He then quickly put it off and sent it
to 'Umar b. Khattab, and it was said to him: Messenger of
Allah. why is it that you put it of immediately. whereupon he
said: Gabriel forbade me from it (i. e. wearing of Ods
garment), and 'Umar came to him weeping and said: Messenger of
Allah you disapproved a thing but you gave it to me. What
about me, then? Thereupon be (the Holy Prophet) Wd: I did not
give it to you to wear it, but I gave you that you might sell
it; and so he (Hadrat Umar) sold it for two thousand dirhams.
Bk 39, Number 5159:
'Ali reported: A silk cloak was presented to Allah's Messenger
(may peace be upon him). and he sent it to me and I wore it.
but then found some sign of disapproval upon his face,
whereupon he said: I did not send it to you that you wear it,
but I sent it to you so that you might tear it and make out
head dream for your women.
Bk 39, Number 5160:
This hadith has been narrated on the authority of Mubammad b.
Ja'far but with a slight variation of wording.
Bk 39, Number 5161:
'Ali reported that Ukaidir of Duma presented to Allah's
Apostle (may peace be upon him) a silk garment, and he
presented it to 'Ali. and said: Tear it to make head covering
for Fitimas out of it. This tradition is transmitted on the
authority of Abu Bakr, and Abu Kuraib said: Among the women.
Bk 39, Number 5162:
'Ali b. Abu Talib reported that Allah's Messenger (may peace
be upon him) gave me to wear a garment in the form of silk
cloak. I went out wearing it, but saw signs of anger on his
face, so I tore it and distributed it amongst my women.
Bk 39, Number 5163:
Anas b. Malik reported that Allah's Messenger (may Peace be
upon him) sent a silk gown to 'Umar, whereupon 'Umar said: You
sent it to me whereas you said what you had to, say (i. e. it
is forbidden for men). Thereupon he (the Holy Prophet) said: I
did not send it to you so that you might wear it, but I sent
it to you so that you might derive benefit from its price.
Bk 39, Number 5164:
Anas reported that Allah's Messenger (may peace be upon him)
said: He who wore silk in this world would not wear it in the
Hereafter.
Bk 39, Number 5165:
Abu Umama reported Allah's Messenger (may peace be upon him)
having said: He who wore silk in this world would not wear it
in the Hereafter.
Bk 39, Number 5166:
Uqba b. 'Amir said: A silk go vn was presented to Allah's
Messenger (may peace be upon him) and he wore it and observed
prayer in it and then returned and put it off so violently as
if he despised it. He then said: It does not befit the
Godfearing persons.
Bk 39, Number 5167:
This hadith has been narrated on the authority of azid b. Abu
Habib with the same chain of transmitters.
Chapter 2: IT IS PERMISSIBLE FOR A MAN TO WEAR SILK BECAUSP OF
ITCH OR SOME OTHER REASON
Bk 24, Number 5168:
Anas b. Malik reported to them (his companions) that Allah's
Messnger (may peace be upon him) had granted concession to Abd
al−Rahman b. *Anf and Zubair b. 'Awwam for the wearing of a
silk shirt during the journey and because of itch which they
both had or any other disease from which both of them had been
suffering.
Bk 24, Number 5169:
This hadith has been narrated on the authority of Sa'd with
the same chain of transmitters but there is no mention of the
word" journey".
Bk 24, Number 5170:
Anas reported that Allah's Messenger (may peace be upon him)
granted concession, or Zubair b. Awwam and 'Abd Al−Rahman b.
Auf were granted concession, for the wearing of silk because
of the itch that they both had.
Bk 24, Number 5171:
This hadith has been narrated on the authority of Shu'ba with
the same chain of transmitters.
Bk 24, Number 5172:
Anas b. Malik reported that 'Abd al−Rahman b. Auf and Zu'bair.
b. 'Awwam complained to Allah's Messenger (may peace be upon
him) about lice; he granted them concession to wear shirts of
silk.
Chapter 3: IT IS NOT PERMISSIBLE FOR A MAN TO WEAR CLOTHES OF
YELLOW COLOUR
Bk 24, Number 5173:
'Abdullah b. 'Amr b. al−As reported: Allah's Messenger (may
peace be upon him) saw me wearing two clothes dyed in saffron.
whereupon he said: These are the clothes (usually worn by) the
non−believers, so do not wear them.
Bk 24, Number 5174:
This hadith has been reported on the authority of Yahya b. Abu
Kathir with the same chain of trarnmitteis.
Bk 24, Number 5175:
'Abdullah b. 'Amr reported: Allah's Apostle (may peace be upon
him) saw me in two clothes dyed in saffron, whereupon he said:
Has your mother ordered you to do so? And I said: I will wash
them. He said: But burn them.
Bk 24, Number 5176:
'Ali b. Abu Talib reported that Allah's Messenger (may peace
be upon him) forbade wearing of silk and yellow clothes, and
the gold ring, and the reciting of the Qur'an in the ruku'
(state of kneeling in prayer).
Bk 24, Number 5177:
Ali b. Abu Talib reported: Allah's Apostle (may peace be upon
him) forbade me to recite the Qur'an while I am in ruku; and
the wearing of gold and clothes dyed in saffron.
Bk 24, Number 5178:
'Ali b. Abu Talib reported: Allah's Meisenger (may peace be
upon him) forbade me to use gold rings. to wear silk clothes
and to recite the Qur'an in ruku' and sajda (prostration), and
to wear yellow garments.
Chapter 4: EXCELLENCE OF WEARING THE MANTLES OF YEMEN
Bk 24, Number 5179:
Qatada said: We asked Anas b. Malik which garment did Allah's
Messenger may peace be upon him) love or like (to wear). He
said: The mantle of Yemen.
Bk 24, Number 5180:
Anas reported that the garment most liked by Allah's Messenger
(may peace be upon him) was the mantle of Yemen.
Chapter 5: MODESTY IN CASE OF GARMENTS AND PREFERENCE FOR TYIE
COARSE CLOTH FOR WEARING AND THE PERMISSIBILITY OF WEARING
CLOTH MADE OF (CAMEL'S) HAIR
Bk 24, Number 5181:
Abu Burda reported: I visited A'isha and she brought out for
us the coarse lower garfnent (of Allah's Messenger) made in
Yemen and clothes made out of Mulabbada cloth, and she swore
in the name of Allah that Allah's Messenger (may peace be upon
him) died in these two clothes.
Bk 24, Number 5182:
Abu Burda reported that A'isha brought out for us the lower
garment and the upper garment made of the Mulabbada cloth and
said: It was in these (clothes) that Allah's Messenger (may
peace be upon him) died. Ibn Hatim (one of the narrators) in
his narration Wd: The lower garment of coarse cloth.
Bk 24, Number 5183:
This hadith has been reported on the authority of Ayyub with a
slight variation of wording.
Bk 24, Number 5184:
A'isha reported that Allah's Apostle (may peace be upon him)
went out one morning wearing a blanket made of (camel's or
sheep's) black hair with patterns of camel saddles upon it.
Bk 24, Number 5185:
A'isha reported that the pillow on which Allah's Messenger
(may peace be upon him) reclined was of leather stuffed with
palm fibre.
Bk 24, Number 5186:
A'isha reported that the bedding on which. Allah's Messenger
(may peace be upon him) slept was made of leather stuffed with
palm fibre.
Bk 24, Number 5187:
This hadith has been reported on the authority of Hisham b.
'Urwa with a slight variation of wording.
Chapter 6: IT IS PERIIISSIBLE TO USE CARPETS
Bk 24, Number 5188:
Jabir reported: When I was married, Allah's Messenger (may
peace he upon him) asked me if I had got the carpet. I said:
How can we have carpets? (i. e. I am so poor that I cannot
even think of carpets). whereupon he said: You shall soon
possess them.
Bk 24, Number 5189:
Jabir b. Abdullah reported: When I was married. Allah's
Messenger (may peace be upon him) asked me if I had got
carpets. I said: How can we have carpets? Thereupon he Wd: You
will soon have. Jabir said: My wife had possessed a carpet.
and I said to her to remove that away from me, but she would
say! Allah's Messenger (may peace be npon him) had said: Yon
will soon have. This hadith has been narrated on the authority
of Sufyin with the saule chain of transmitters but with a
slight variation of wording.
Chapter 7: DISAPPROVAL OF KEEPING MORE BEDDINGS AND CLOTHES
THAN ARE GENUINELY NEEDED
Bk 24, Number 5190:
Jabir b. 'Abdullah reported that Allah's Messengor (may peace
be upon him) said: There should be a bedding for a man. a
bedding for his wife and the third one for the guest, and the
fourth one is for the Satan.
Chapter 8: IT IS FORBIDDEN TO TRAIL ONE'S GARMENT OUT OF
CONCEIT OR PRIDE
Bk 24, Number 5191:
Ibn 'Umar reported Allah's Messenger (may peace be upon him)
having said: Allah will not look upon him who trails his
garment out of pride.
Bk 24, Number 5192:
This hadith has been narrated on the authority of Ibn 'Umar
through other chains of transmitters also with the addition of
these words:" On the Day of Resurrection."
Bk 24, Number 5193:
Ibn 'Umar reported Allah's Messenger (may peace be upon him)
having said: He who trails his (lower) garment out of pride,
Allah will not look toward him on the Day of Resurrection.
Bk 24, Number 5194:
This hadith has been narrated on the authority of Ibn 'Umar
through another chain of transmitters.
Bk 24, Number 5195:
Ibn 'Umar reported Allah's Messenger (may peace be upon him)
having said: He who trailed his garment out of pride, Allah
would not look toward him on the Day of Resurrection.
Bk 24, Number 5196:
Salim reported: I heard Ibn Umar as saying that he had heard
Allah's Messenger (may peace be upon him) as saying like this
(as mentioned above) but with a slight variation of wording
[that instead of the word thaub (cloth) there is the word
thiyab (the clothes) ].
Bk 24, Number 5197:
Muslim b. Yannaq reported that Ibn Umar saw a person trailing
his lower garment, whereupon he said: From whom do you come?
He described his relationship (with the tribe he belonged) and
it was found that he belonged to the tribe of Laith. Ibn. Umar
recognised him and said: I heard Allah's Messenger (may peace
be upon him) with these two ears of mine saying: He who
trailed his lower garment with no other intention but pride,
Allah would not look toward him on the Day of Resurrection.
Bk 24, Number 5198:
This hadith has been narrated on the authority of Muslim b.
Yannaq through another chain of transmitters but with a slight
variation of wording.
Bk 24, Number 5199:
Mubammad b. 'Abbad b. ja'far reported: I ordered Muslim b.
Yasar, the freed slave of Nafi' b. 'Abd al−Harith, while I was
sitting between them, that he should ask Ibn 'Umar if he had
heard anything from Allah's Messenger (may peace be upon him)
pertaining to one who trails his lower garment out of pride.
He said: I heard him (the Holy Prophet) as saying: Allah will
not look toward him on the Day of Resurrection.
Bk 24, Number 5200:
Ibn 'Umar reported: I happened to pass before Allah's
Messenger (may peace be upon bin) with my lower garment
trailing (upon the ground). He said: 'Abdullah, tug up your
lower garment,, I tugged it up, and he again said: Tug it
still further, and I tugged it still further and I went on
tugging it afterward, whereupon some of the people said: To
what extent? Thereupon he said: To the middle of the shanks.
Bk 24, Number 5201:
Abu Huraire reported that he saw a person whose lower garment
bad been trailin. and he was striking the ground with his foot
(conceitedly). He was the Amir of Bahrain and it was being
said: Here comes the Amir, here comes the Amir. He (Abu
Huraira) reported that Allah's Messenger (may peace be upon
him) said: Allah will not look toward him who trails his lower
garment out of pride.
Bk 24, Number 5202:
This hadith has been reported on the authority of Shu'ba with
the same chain of transmitters and in the hadith transmitted
on the authority of Ibn ja'far (the words are): Marwan had
made Abu Huraira as his deputy. and in the hadith transmitted
on the authority of Ibn Muthanna (the words are). Abu Huraira
was the Governor of Medina.
Chapter 9: IT IS FORBIDDEN TO WALK WITH PRIDE, OVER PLEASED
WITH FINE CLOTHES
Bk 24, Number 5203:
Abu Huraira reported that Allah's Messenger (may peace be upon
him) said that there was a person who used to walk with pride
because of his thick hair and fine mantles. He was made to
sink in the earth and he would go on sinking in the earth
until the Last Hour would come.
Bk 24, Number 5204:
This hadith has been narrated on the authority of Abu Huraira
but with a different chain of transmitters.
Bk 24, Number 5205:
Abu Huraira reported Allah's Messenger (may peace be upon him)
as saying: There was a person who walked with pride because of
his (fine) mantles and well pleased with his personality.
Allah made him sink in the earth and he would go on sinking in
that until the Day of Resurrection.
Bk 24, Number 5206:
This hadith has been transmitted on the authority of Abu
Huraira but with a slight variation of wording: While there
was a man who strutted in his two mantles.
Bk 24, Number 5207:
Abu Huraira reported Allah's Messenger (may peace be upon him)
as saying: There was a person (living before you) who took
pride in his cloak. the rest of the hadith is the same.
Chapter 10: ABOUT THE SIGNET RING MADE OF GOLD
Bk 24, Number 5208:
Abu Huraira reported that Allah's Apostle (may peace be upon
him) forbade the wearing of gold signet ring.
Bk 24, Number 5209:
Abdullah b. 'Abbas reported that Allah's Messenger (may peace
be upon him) saw a person wearing a gold signet ring in his
hand. He (the Holy Prophet) pulled it off and threw it away,
saying: One of you is wishing live coal from Hell. and putting
it on his hand. It was said to the person after Allah's
Messenger (may peace be upon him) had left: Take your signet
ring (of gold) and derive benefit out of it. whereupon he
said: No, by Allah, I would never take it when Allah's
Messenger (may peace be upon him) has thrown it away.
Bk 24, Number 5210:
'Abdullah reported that Allah's Messenger (may peace be upol
him) got fashioned a signet ring of gold but he kept its stone
on the inner side of his palm as he wore it, so the people
(following his example) got fashioned (such rings). Then one
day as he sat on the pulpit he pulled it away saying: I wore
this ring and kept its stone towards the inner side. He then
threw it away, and said: By Allah, I will never wear it; so
the people threw their rings away.
Bk 24, Number 5211:
This hadith has been narrated on the authority of Ibn 'Umar
through other chains of transmitters but with a slight
variation of wording.
Chapter 11: WEARING OF SILVER RING BY ALLAH'S APOSTLE (MAY
PEACE BE UPON HIM) IN WHICH WERE ENGRAVED THE WORDS (MUHAMMAD
THE MESSENGER OF ALLAH) AND AFTER HIM HIS SUCCESSORS WORE IT
Bk 24, Number 5212:
Ibn Umar reported that Allah's Messenger (may peace be upon
him) had made for himself a ring of silver, and he (wore it in
his finger). then it was in Abu Bakr's finger. then it was
in'Umar's finger. then it was in 'Uthman's finger. until it
fell into the well of Aris and it had these words engraved
upon it (Muhammad, Messenger of Allah). Ibn Numair narrated it
with a slight variation of words.
Bk 24, Number 5213:
Ibn Umar reported that Allah's Apostle (may peace be upon
hirn) had made for himself a gold ring; then lie discarded it.
and then made for himself a silver ring. and had these words
engraved upon it (Mubamrnad, Messenger of Allah), and said: No
one should engrave anything like the engraving of this signet
ring of mine. and when he Wore it. he kept its stone towards
the inside of his palm, and it was this which fell down (from
the hands) of Mu'ayqib into the well of Aris.
Bk 24, Number 5214:
Anas b. Malik reported that Allah's Apostle (may peace be upon
him) had made for him a silver ring. and got engraved on it
(Mubamrnad, Messenger of Allah) and said to the people I have
got made a ring of silver and engraved in it (these words)
(Mubamrnad, Messenger of Allah). So none should engrave these
(words) like this engravement.
Bk 24, Number 5215:
This hadith nas been reported on the authority of Anas through
another chain of transmitters but there is no mention of the
words (Mubamrnad, Messenger of Allah) in it.
Chapter 12: ALLAH'S MESSENGER (MAY PEACE BE UPON HIM) GOT MADE
FOR HIMSELF A SIGNET RING WHEN HE DECIDITD TO WRITE LETTERS TO
THE NON−ARABS
Bk 24, Number 5216:
Anas b. Malik reported that when Allah's Messenger (may peace
be upon him) decided to write letters to the Byzantine
(Emperor) they (his Companions) told him that they would not
read a letter unless it is sealed. (Then) Allah's Messenger
(may peace be upon him) had a silver ring made (for himealf),
(its shape is to vivid in my mind) as if I see its brightness
in the band of Allah's Messenger (may peace be upon him) and
its engravement was (Mubamrnad, Messenger of Allah).
Bk 24, Number 5217:
Anas reported that when Allah's Apostle (may peace be upon
him) decided to write (letters) to non−Arabs (i. e. Persian
and Byzantine Emperors) it was said to him that the non−Arabs
would not accept a letter but that having a seal over it; so
he (the Holy Prophet) got a silver ring made. He (Anas) said:
I perceive as if I am looking at its brightness in his hand.
Bk 24, Number 5218:
Anas reported that when Allah's Apostle (may peace be upon
him) decided to write to the Kisri (the King of Persia),
Caesar (Emperor of Rome), and the Negus (the Emperor of
Abyssinia), it was said to him that they would not accept the
letter without the seal over it; so Allah's Messenger (may
peace be upon him) got a seal made, the ring of which was made
of silver and there was engraved on it. (Mubammad. the
Messenger of Allab).
Chapter 13: PERTAINING TO THE DISCARDING OF RINGS
Bk 24, Number 5219:
Anas b. Malik reported: I saw one day on the finger of Allah's
Messenger (may peace be Upon him) a silver ring; so the people
also got silver rings made and wore them Then Allah's Apostle
(may peace be upon him) discarded his ring, and the people
also discarded their rings.
Bk 24, Number 5220:
Anas b. Malik reported that one day he saw on the finger of
Allah's Messenger (may peace be upon him) a silver ring, and
the people also made silver rings and put them on. Then
Allah's Apostle (may peace be upon him) threw his ring away,
and so the people also threw away their rings.
Bk 24, Number 5221:
A hadith like this has been reported on the authority of Ibn
Juraij with the same chain of transmitters.
Bk 24, Number 5222:
Anas b. Malik reported that the ring of Allah's Messenger (may
peace be upon him) was made of silver and it had an Abyssinian
stone in it.
Bk 24, Number 5223:
Anas b. Malik reported that Allah's Messenger (may peace be
upon him) wore a silver ring on his right hand which had an
Abyssinian stone in it, and he kept its stone towards the
palm.
Bk 24, Number 5224:
This hadith has been narrated on the authority of Yunus b.
Yazid with the same chain of transmitters.
Bk 24, Number 5225:
Anas reported that the ring of Allah's Apostle (may peace be
upon him) was on this, and he pointed toward the little finger
of his left hand.
Bk 24, Number 5226:
Ali reported: He the Holy Prophet (may peace be upon him),
forbade me that I should wear my ring in this (forefinger) or
in that near it. 'Asim (one of the narrators in the chain of
transmitters) said: He did not remember which of the two
(fingers) he pointed out; and he forbade to wear Qassi
material (silk garments), and to sit on the silk saddle cloth,
and he said: As regards Qassi, it is a variegated garment
which was brought from Egypt and Syria which had figures upon
it, and as regards Mayathir, it is something which women
prepared for their husbands as red cloths for their saddles.
Bk 24, Number 5227:
A hadith like this has been reported on the authority of 'Ali
through a different chain of transmitters.
Bk 24, Number 5228:
'Ali b. Abu Talib reported that he (Allah'. s Apostle) forbade
or forbade me. the rest of the hadith is the same.
Bk 24, Number 5229:
'Ali reported: Allah's Messenger (may peace be upon him)
forbade me that I should wear a ring in this and that finger
of mine, and he pointed to the middle finger and the next one.
Chapter 14: PERTAINING TO THE WEARING OF SANDALS (OR SHOES)
Bk 24, Number 5230:
Jabir reported: I heard Allah's Apostle (may peace be upon
him) saying during an expedition in which we also
participated: Make a general practice of wearing sandals, for
a man is riding as it were when he wears sandals.
Bk 24, Number 5231:
Abu Huraire reported Allah's Messenger (may peace be upon him)
as saying: When one of you puts on sandals, he should first
put in the right foot, and when he takes off he should take
off the left one first, or he should put them on together or
take them off together.
Bk 24, Number 5232:
Abu Huraira reported Allah's Messenger (may peace be upon him)
as saying: None of you should walk in one sandal; either he
should wear the two or should take off the two.
Bk 24, Number 5233:
Abu Razin reported: Abu Huraira came to us and he struck his
forehead with his hand and said: Behold I you talk amongst
yourself that I attribute wrongly to Allah's Messenger (may
peace be upon him) (certain things) in order to guide you to
the right path. In such a case, I would myself go astray.
Listen. I bear testimony to the fact that I heard Allah's
Messenger (may peace be upon him) saying: When the thong of
any one of you is broken, he should not walk in the second one
until he has got it repaired. This hadith has been reported on
the authority of Abu Huraira with a different chain of
transmitters.
Chapter 15: COMMAND CONCERNING THE WRAPPING UP OF GARMENT
COMPLETELY LEAVING NO OPENING FOR THE ARMS AND SITTING WITH
SINGLE GARMENT WRAPPED AROUND ONES KNEES
Bk 24, Number 5234:
Jabir reported that Allah's Messenger (may peace be upon him)
forbade that a man should eat with the left hand or walk with
one sandal or wrap himself completely leaving no opening for
the arms (to draw out) or support himself when sitting with a
single garment wrapped round his knees which may expose his
private parts.
Bk 24, Number 5235:
Jabir reported Allah's Messenger (may peace be upon him) as
saying: When the thong of the shoe of any one of you is cut
off. he should not walk with one sandal until he has got the
thong repaired, and he should not walk with one shoe and he
should not eat with his left hand and should not wrap his
cloth round his knees or wrap himself completely leaving no
room for the arins.
Chapter 16: IT IS PROHIBITED TO LIE DOWN ON ONE'S BACK AND
PLACING OF ONE'S FOOT UPON THE OTHER
Bk 24, Number 5236:
Jabir reported that Allab's Messenger (may peace be upon him)
forbade the wrapping of oneself completely leaving no room for
the arm and supporting oneself when sitting with a single
garment wrapped round one's knees and a person raising one of
his feet and placing it on the other while lying on his back.
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Bk 24, Number 5237:
Jabir. b. Abdullah reported Allah's Messenger (may peace be
upon him) as saying: Do not walk in one sandal and do not wrap
the lower garment round your knees and do not eat with your
left hand and do not wrap yourself completely leaving no room
for the arms (to draw out) and do not place one of your feet
upon the other while lying on your back.
Bk 24, Number 5238:
Jalbir b. Abdullah reported Allah's Messenger (may peace be
upon him) as saying: None of you should lie on his back and
place one of his feet upon the other.
Chapter 17: PERMISSIBILITY OF PLACING ONE'S FOOT UPON THE
OTHER WHILE LYING
Bk 24, Number 5239:
'Abbad b. Tamim reported from his uncle that he saw Allah's
Messenger (may peace be upon him) lying in the mosque and
placing his one foot upon the other.
Bk 24, Number 5240:
This hadith has been narrated on the authority of Zuhri with
the same chain of transmitter.
Chapter 18: PROHIBITION OF USING CLOTHES DYED IN SAFERON FOR
MEN
Bk 24, Number 5241:
Anas b. Malik reported that Allah's Apostle (may peace he upon
him) forbade dyeing (one's cloth or hair) in saffron. Hammad
said that it pertains to men only.
Bk 24, Number 5242:
Anas reported that Allah's Messenger (may peace be upon him)
forbade that a person should (wear) clothes dyed in saffron.
Bk 24, Number 5243:
Jabir reported that when Abu Qubafa (father of Abu Bakr) came
in the yeu of Victory or on the Day of Victory (to the Holy
Prophet to pledge his allegiance to him) his head and his
beard were white like hyssop. He (the Holy Prophet) commaded
or the women were commanded by him that they should change
this with something (that the colour of his hair should be
changed).
Bk 24, Number 5244:
Jabir b. 'Abdullah reported that Abu Qubafa was led (to the
andience of the Holy Prophet) on the day of the Conquest of
Mecca and his head and beard were white like hyssop, whereupon
Allah's Messenger (may peace be upon him) said: Change it with
something but avoid black.
Bk 24, Number 5245:
Abu Horaira reported Allah's Messenger (may peace be upon him)
as saying: The Jews and the Christians do not dye (their
hair), so oppose them.
Chapter 19: ANGELS DO NOT ENTER A HOUSE IN WHICH THERE IS A
DOG OR A PICTURE
Bk 24, Number 5246:
A'isha reported that Gabriel (peace be upon him) made a
promise with Allah's Messenger (may peace be upon him) to come
at a definite hour; that hour came but he did not visit him.
And there was in his hand (in the hand of Allah's Apostle) a
staff. He threw it from his hand and said: Never has Allah or
His messengers (angels) ever broken their promise. Then he
cast a glance (and by chance) found a puppy under his cot and
said: 'A'isha, when did this dog enter here? She said: BY
Allah, I don't know He then commanded and it was turned out.
Then Gabriel came and Allah's Messenger (may peace be upon
him) said to him: You promised me and I waited for you. but
you did not come, whereupon he said: It was the dog in your
house which prevented me (to come), for we (angels) do not
enter a house in which there is a dog or a picture.
Bk 24, Number 5247:
This hadith has been narrated on the authority of Abu Hazim
with the same chain of transmitters that Gabriel had promised
Allah's Messenger (may peace be upon him) that he would come;
the rest of the hadith is the same, but it is not so lengthy
as the other one.
Bk 24, Number 5248:
Maimuna reported that one morning Allah's Messenger (may peace
be upon him) was silent with grief. Maimuna said: Allah's
Messenger, I find a change in your mood today. Allah's
Messenger (may peace be upon him) said: Gabriel had promised
me that he would meet me tonight, but he did not meet me. By
Allah, he never broke his promises, and Allah's Messenger (may
peace be upon him) spent the day in this sad (mood). Then it
occurred to him that there had been a puppy under their cot.
He commanded and it was turned out. He then took some water in
his hand and sprinkled it at that place. When it was evening
Gabriel met him and he said to him: you promised me that you
would meet me the previous night. He said: Yes, but we do not
enter a house in which there is a dog or a picture. Then on
that very morning he commanded the killing of the dogs until
he announced that the dog kept for the orchards should also be
killed, but he spared the dog meant for the protection of
extensive fields (or big gardens).
Bk 24, Number 5249:
Abu Talha reported Allah's Apostle (may peace be upon him)
having said: Angels do not enter a house in which there is a
dog or a picture.
Bk 24, Number 5250:
Abu Talha reported: I heard Allah's Messenger (may peace be
upon him) as saying: Angels do not enter the house in which
there is a dog or a statue.
Bk 24, Number 5251:
This hadith has been reported on the authority of Zuhri with
the same chain of transmitters.
Bk 24, Number 5252:
Abu Tilha, the Companion of Allah's Messenger (may peace be
upon him), reported Allah's Messenger (may peace be upon him)
having said: Verily, angels do not enter the house in which
there is a picture. Busr reported: Zaid fell ill and we went
to inquire after his health and (found) that there was hanging
at his door a curtain with a picture on it. I said to
'Ubaidullah Khaulani who had been under the patronage of
Maimuna, the wife of Allah's Apostle (may peace be upon him):
Did not Zaid himself inform us before about (the Holy
Prophet's command pertaining to the pictures), whereupon
'Ubaidullah said: Did you not hear when he said:" Except the
prints on the cloth"?
Bk 24, Number 5253:
Abu Talha reported that Allah's Messenger (may peace be upon
him) said: Angels do not enter a house in which there is a
picture. Busr said: Zaid b. Khalid fell sick and we visited
him to inquire after his health. As we were in his house (we
saw) a curtain having pictures on it. I said to 'Ubaidullah
Khaulani: Did he not narrate to us (the Holy Prophet's command
pertaining to pictures)? Thereupon he said: He in fact did
that (but he also said): Except the prints upon the cloth. Did
you not hear this? I said: No, whereupon He said: He had in
fact made a mention of this.
Bk 24, Number 5254:
Abu Talha Ansari reported Allah's Messenger (may peace be upon
him) as saying: Angels do not enter the house in which there
is a picture or portraits. I came to 'A'isha and said to her:
This is a news that I have received that Allah's Apostle (may
peace be upon him) had said: Angels do not enter the house in
which there is a picture or a dog, (and further added) whether
she had heard Allah's Messenger (may peace be upon him) making
a mention of it. She said: No (I did not hear this myself),
but I narrate to you what I saw him doing. I bear testimony to
the fact that he (the Holy Prophet) set out for an expedition.
I took a carpet and screened the door with it. When he (the
Holy Prophet) came back he saw that carpet and I perceived
signs of disapproval on his face. He pulled it until it was
torn or it was cut (into pieces) and he said: God has not
commanded us to clothe stones and clay. We cut it (the
curtain) and prepared two pillowa out of it by stuffing them
with the fibre of date−palms and he (the Holy Prophet) did not
find fault with it.
Bk 24, Number 5255:
A'isha reported: We had a curtain with us which had portraits
of birds upon it. Whenever a visitor came, he found them in
front of him. Thereupon Allah's Messenger (may peace be upop
him) said to me: Change them, for whenever I enter the room) I
see them and it brings to my mind (the pleasures) of worldly
life. She said: We had with us a sheet which had silk badges
upon it and we used to wear it. This hadith has been
transmitted on the authority of Ibn Muthanna but with this
addition: 'Allah's Messenger (may peace be upon him) did not
command us to tear that."
Bk 24, Number 5256:
A'isha reported: Allah's Messenger (may peace be upon him)
came back from the journey and I had screened my door with a
curtain having portraits of winged horses upon it. He
commanded me and I pulled it away.
Bk 24, Number 5257:
This hadith has been narrpted on the authority of Waki' with
the same chain of transmitters but with a slight variation of
wording.
Bk 24, Number 5258:
A'isha reported that Allah's Messenger (may peace be upon him)
entered (my apartment) and I had hung (on the door of my
apartment) a thin curtain having pictures on it. The colour of
his face underwent a change. He then took hold of that curtain
and tore it and then said: The most grievous torfnent for the
people on the Day of Resurrection would be for those who try
to imitate Allah in the act of creation.
Bk 24, Number 5259:
This hadith has been narrated on the authority of A'isha
through another chain of transmitters but with a slight
variation of wording (and the variation is that the narrator
is reported to have said): He (the Holy Prophet) inclined
towards that curtain and tore it with his hand.
Bk 24, Number 5260:
This hadith has been narrated on the authority of Zuhri with
the same chain of transmitters but with a slight variation of
wording.
Bk 24, Number 5261:
A'isha reported: Allah's Messenger (may peace be upon him)
visited me. and I had a shelf with a thin cloth curtain
hangin. over it and on which there were portraits. No sooner
did he see it than he tore it and the colour of his face
underwent a change and he said: A'isha, the most grievous
torment from the Hand of Allah on the Day of Resurrection
would be for those who imitate (Allah) in the act of His
creation. A'isha said: We tore it into pieces and made a
cushion or two cushions out of that.
Bk 24, Number 5262:
A'isha reported she had a cloth havinc, pictures upon it and
it was hanging upon the shelf and Allah's Messenger (may peace
be upon him) said: Take it (away) from me (from my sight), so
I removed it and made cushions from that.
Bk 24, Number 5263:
This hadith has been narrated on the authority of Shu'ba with
the same chain of transmitters.
Bk 24, Number 5264:
A'isha reported: Allah's Apostle (may peace be upon him)
visited me when I had screened (my door) with a carpet having
pictures on it. He removed it and we made cushions out of
that.
Bk 24, Number 5265:
A'isha, the wife of Allah's Messenger (may peace be upon him),
reported that she had hung a curtain which had pictures upon
it. Allah's Messenger (may peace be upon him) entered (the
room) and he pulled it. A'isha said: I then tore it and
prepared two cushions out of that. A person who was then in
that company and whose name was Rabi'a b. 'Ata, the freed
slave of Banu Zuhra, asked: Did you hear Abu Mabammad making a
mention of A'isha having stated that Allah's Messenger (may
peace be upon him) used to recline upon them? lbn al−Qasim
said: No, but I heard Qasim b. Muhammad saying so.
Bk 24, Number 5266:
A'isha reported that she bought a carpet which had pictures on
it. When Allah's Messenger (may peace be upon him) saw that,
he stayed at the door and did not get in. I perceived or I was
made to perceive upon his face signs of disgust. She said:
Allah's Messenger, I offer repentance to Allah and His
Messenger. (but tell me) what is the sin that I have
committed. Thereupon Allah's Messenger (may peace be upon him)
said: What is this carpet? She said: I bought it for you so
that you might sit on it and take rest. Thereupon Allah's
Messenger (may peace be upon him) said: The owners of these
pictures would be tormented and they would be asked to bring
to life what they tried to create. He then said: Angels do not
enter the house in which there is a picture.
Bk 24, Number 5267:
This hadith has been narrated on the authority of A'isha
through another chain of transmitters also. Some of the other
ahadith narrated through other chains of transmitters are more
complete and there is an addition in them (transmitted through
other chains of transmitters). In the hadith transmitted on
the authority of the nephew of Majishun she (A'isha) is
reported to have said: I took it and prepared two cushions out
of that and he (the Holy Prophet) used to recline against them
in the house.
Bk 24, Number 5268:
Ibn 'Umar reported Allah's Messenger (may peace be upon him)
having said: Those who paint pictures would be punished on the
Day of Resurrection and it would be said to them: Breathe soul
into what you. have created.
Bk 24, Number 5269:
Ibn 'Umar reported a hadith like this through another chain of
transmitters.
Bk 24, Number 5270:
'Abdullah reported Allah's Messenger (may peace be upon him)
as saying: Verity the most grievously tormented people on the
Day of Resurrection would be the painters of pictures. Ashajj
(one of the narrators) in the hadith narrated by him did not
make mention of the word" verity".
Bk 24, Number 5271:
This haditli has been reported on the authority of Abu
Mu'awiya through another chain of tranmitters (and the words
are):" Verity, the most grievously tormented people amongest
the denizens of Hall on the Day of Resurrection would be the
painters of pictures. The rest of the hadith is the same.
Bk 24, Number 5272:
Muslim b. Subaih reported: I was with Masriuq in the house
which had the portrayals of Mary (hadrat Maryan). Thereupon
Masriuq said: These are portraits of Kisra. I said: No, these
are of Mary. Masruq said: I heard Abdullah b, Mas'ud as saying
Allah's Messenger (may peace be upon him) had said: The most
grievously tormented people on the Day of Resurrection would
be the painters of pictures. (Muslim said): I read this before
Nasr b. 'Ali at−Jahdami and he read it before other narrators,
the last one being Ibn Sa'id b Abl at Hasan that a person came
to Ibn 'Abbas and said: I am the person who paints pictures;
give me a religious verdict about them. He (Ibn 'Abbas) said
to him: Come near me (still further). He came near him so much
so that he placed his hand upon his head and said: I am going
to narrate to yor what I heard from Allah's Messenger (may
peace be upon him). I heard him say: All the painters who make
pictures would be in the fire of Hell. The soul will be
breathed in every picture prepared by him and it shall punish
him in the Hell, and he (Ibn 'Abbas) said: If you have to do
it at all, then paint the pictures of trees and lifeless
things; and Nasr b. 'Ali confirmed it.
Bk 24, Number 5273:
Anas b. Malik said: I was sitting with Ibn Ahbas when he gave
religious verdicts but he did not say that it was Allah's
Messenger (may peace be upon him) who had said that. However
when a man said to him (Ibn 'Abbas): I am the painter of these
pictures. Ibn 'Abbas said: I heard Allah's Messenger (may
peace be upon him) as saying: He who painted pictures in the
world would be compelled to breathe soal in them on the Day of
Resurrection, but he would not be able to breathe soul (in
them).
Bk 24, Number 5274:
Nadr b. Anas reported that a person came to Ibn 'Abbas and he
narrated (the above menlioned hadith) from Allah's Apostle
(may peace be upon him).
Bk 24, Number 5275:
Abu Zur'a reported: I visited the house of Marwan in the
company of Abu Huraira and he found pictures there. whereupon
he said: I heard Allah's Messenger (may peace be upon him) as
saying: Allah, the Glorious and Exalted, said: Who is a more
wrongdoer than one who tries to create creation like Mine
creation. Let him create an atom or a grain of wheat or that
of barley. This hadith has been transmitted on the authority
of Abu Zur'a and he said: Abu Huraira went to the house of
Sa'ld or Marwan which they had built in Medina and he (Abu
Huraira) saw a painter who had been painting pictures in his
house, whereupon he told that Allah's Messenger (may peace be
upon him) had said like this, but he made no mention of the
words:" Let him create the grain of barley."
Bk 24, Number 5276:
Abu Huraira reported Allah's Messenger (may peace be upon him)
as saying: Angels do not enter the house in which there are
portrayals or pictures.
Chapter 20: DISAPPROVAL OF SETTING OUT ON A JOURNEY ALONG WITH
A DOG AND BELLS
Bk 24, Number 5277:
Abu Huraira reported Allah's Messenger (may peace be upon him)
as saying: Angels do not accompany the travellers who have
with them a dog and a bell.
Bk 24, Number 5278:
This hadith has been reported on the authority of Suhail with
the same chain of transmitters.
Bk 24, Number 5279:
Abu Huraira reported Allah's Messenger (may peace be upon him)
as saying: The bell is the musical instrument of the Satan.
Chapter 21: DISAPPROVAL OF HANGING THE NECKLACE ROUND THE
CAMELS' NECKS
Bk 24, Number 5280:
Abu Bashir Ansari reported that he had had (the opportunity of
accompanying Allah's Messenger (may peace be upon him) in some
of his journeys. Allah's Messenger (may peace be upon him)
sent one of his messengers 'Abdullah b Abi Bakr said: I think
he said (these words) when the people were at the places of
rest: No necklace of strings be left on the necks of the
camels or the necklace kept unbroken. Imam Malik said: To my
mind (this practice) of wearing necklace round the necks of
camels or animals was because of the fact that they (wanted to
save them) from the influence of the evil eye.
Chapter 22: IT IS FORBIDDEN TO BEAT THE ANIMAL ON THE FACE OR
CAUTERISE AT THE FACE
Bk 24, Number 5281:
Jabir reported that Allah's Messenger (may peace be upon him)
forbade (the animals to be beaten) on the face or
cauterisation on the face.
Bk 24, Number 5282:
This hadith has been reported on the authority of Jabir b.
'Abdullah through another chain of transmitters.
Bk 24, Number 5283:
Jabir reported that there happened to pass before Allah's
Apostle (may peace be upon him) an ass the face of which had
been cauterised, whereupon he said: Allah has cursed one who
has cauterised it (on the face).
Bk 24, Number 5284:
Ibn Abbas reported that Allah's Messenger (may peace be upon
him) saw an ass which had been cauterised on the face. He
disapproved of it saying: By Allah, I do not cauterise (the
animal) but on a part at a distance from the face, and
commanded (for the cauterisation) of his ass and it was
cauterised on the buttocks and he was the first to cauterise
on the buttocks.
Bk 24, Number 5285:
Anas reported that Umm Sulaim gave birth to a child. She said
to him: Anas, see that nothing is given to this child until he
is brought to Allah's Apostle (may peace be upon him) in the
morning, so that he should chew some dates and touch his
palate with it. I went to him in the morning and he was in the
garden at that time having the mantle of Jauniyya over him and
he was bus in cauterising (the camels) which had been brought
to him (as spoils of war) in victory (over the enemy).
Bk 24, Number 5286:
Anas reported that when his mother gave birth to a child they
brought that child to Allah's Messenger (may peace be upon
him) so that he might chew some dates and touch his palate
with them. and Allah's Apostle (may peace be upon him) was at
that time in the fold busy in cauterising the animals Shu'ba
said: So far as I know (he was cauterising) their ears.
Bk 24, Number 5287:
Anas reported: We went to Allah's Messenger (may peace be upon
him) as he was in the fold and he was cauterising the animals
of the flock and I think (he was cauterising them) on their
ears. This hadith has been narrated on the authority of Shu'ba
through another chain of transmitters.
Bk 24, Number 5288:
Anas b. Malik reported: I saw in the hand of Allah's Messenger
(may peace be upon him) an instrument for cauterisation and he
was cauterising the caracia collected as Zakat.
Chapter 23: DISAPPROVAL OF HAVING A PART OF THE HEAD SHAVEN
AND LEAVING A PART UNSHAVED
Bk 24, Number 5289:
Ibn Umar reported that Allah's Messenger (may peace be upon
him) forbade Qaza. I said to Nafi: What is Qaza'? He said:
This means having a part of a boy's head shaved and leaving a
part unshaven.
Bk 24, Number 5290:
This hadith has been reported on the authority of 'Ubaidullah
with the same chain of transmitters. and the exposition of
Qaza' is the same as that of Abu Usama.
Bk 24, Number 5291:
This hadith has been narrated on the authority of 'Umar b.
Nafi' with the same chain of transmitters and Muhammad b.
Muthanna as well as 'Umar b. Nafi have given the same
exposition (of the word Qaza') in their narration.
Bk 24, Number 5292:
This hadith has been narrated on the authority of Ibn 'Umar
through another chain of transmitters.
Chapter 24: PROHIBITION OF SITTING ON THE ROADSIDES AND TO
HONOUR THE OBLIGATIONS OF THE ROADSIDE
Bk 24, Number 5293:
Abu Sa'id Kbudri reported Allah's Apostle (may peace be upon
him) as saying: Avoid sitting on the paths. They (his
Companions) said: Allah's Messenger. there is no other help to
it (but to sit here as we) hold our meetings and discuss
matters there. Thereupon Allah's Messenger (may peace be upon
him) said: If you have to sit at all, theg fulfil the rights,
of the path. They said: What are their rights? Thereupon he
said: Keeping the eye downward (so that you may not stare at
the women), refraining from doing some harm to the other and
exchanging mutual greetings (saying as−Salamu 'Alaikum to one
another) and commanding the good and forbidding the evil.
Bk 24, Number 5294:
This hadith has been reported on the authority of Zaid b.
Aslam with the same chain of transmitters.
Chapter 25: IT IS FORBIDDEN TO ADD FALSE HAIR TO ONE'S HEAD,
OR TO PLUCK THE EYEBROW OR TO SEPARATE THE TEETH
Bk 24, Number 5295:
Asma', daughter of Abu Bakr, reported that a woman came to
Allah's Apostle (may peace be upon him) and said: I have a
daughter who has been newly wedded. She had an attack of
smallpox and thus her hair had fallen; should I add false hair
to her head? Thereupon Allah's Messenger (may peace be upon
him) said: Allah has cursed the woman who adds some false hair
and the woman who asks for it.
Bk 24, Number 5296:
This hadith has been transmitted on the authority of Shu'ba
with a slight variation of wording.
Bk 24, Number 5297:
Asma', daughter of Abu Bakr, reported that a woman came to
Allah's Apostle (may peace be upon him) and said: I have
married my daughter (whose) hair of head have fallen. Her
spouse likes them (the long hair). Allah's Messenger (may add
false hair to her head? He forbade her to do this.
Bk 24, Number 5298:
A'isha reported that a girl of the Ansar who had fallen ill
and had lost the hair was married. They (her relatives)
thought of adding false hair (to her head). so they asked
Allah's Messenger (may peace be upon him) about it, whereupon
he cursed the woman who adds false hair and the woman who asks
for it.
Bk 24, Number 5299:
A'isha reported that a woman from the Ansar married her
daughter who had lost her hair because of illness. She came to
Allah's Apostle (may peace be upon him) and said: Her husband
wants that false hair should be aaded to her head. Thereupon
Allah's Messenger (may peace be upon him) said: The woman who
adds false hair has been cursed. This hadith has been narrated
on the authority of Nafi' with the same chain of transmitters
but with a slight variation of wording.
Bk 24, Number 5300:
Ibn Umar reported Allah's Messenger (may peace be upon him)
cursing the woman who added false hair and the woman who asked
for tattoos. This hadith has been reported on the authority of
Abdullah through another chain of transmitters.
Bk 24, Number 5301:
'Abdullah reported that Allah had cursed those women who
tattooed and who have themselves tattooed, those who pluck
hair from their faces and those who make spaces between their
teeth for beautification changing what God has created. This
news reached a woman of the tribe of Asad who was called Umm
Ya'qub and she used to recite the Holy Qur'an. She came to him
and said: What is this news that has reached me from you that
you curse those women who tattooed and those women who have
themselves tattooed, the women who pluck hair from their faces
and who make spaces between their teeth for beautification
changing what God has created? Thereupon 'Abdullah said:
Should I not curse one upon whom Allah's Messenger (may peace
be upon him) has invoked curse and that is in the Book also.
Thereupon that woman said: I read the Qur'an from cover to
cover, but I did not find that in it. whereupon he said: If
you had read (thoroughly) you would have definitely found this
in that (as) Allah, the Exalted and Glorious, has said:" What
Allah's Messenger brings for you accept that. and what he has
forbidden you. refrain from that." That woman said: I find
this thing in your wife even now. Thereupon he said: Go and
see her. She reported: I went to the wife of 'Abdullah but
found nothing of this sort in her. She came back to him and
said: I have not seen anything. whereupon he said: Had there
been anything like it in her, I would have never slept with
her in the bed.
Bk 24, Number 5302:
This hadith has been reported on the authority of Mansur with
the same chain of transmitters but with a slight variation of
wording.
Bk 24, Number 5303:
This hadith has been narrated on the authority of Mansur
without the story pertaining to Umm Ya'qub.
Bk 24, Number 5304:
This hadith has been transmitted on the authority of Abdullah.
Bk 24, Number 5305:
Jabir b. Abdullah reported that Allah's Apostle (may peace be
upon him) reprimanded that a woman should add anything to her
head (in the form of artificial hair).
Bk 24, Number 5306:
Abd al−Rahman b. 'Auf said that he heard Mu'awiya b Sufyin
during the season of Hajj. (saying) as he sat upon the pulpit
holding a bunch of hair in his hand which was (previously) in
the hand of his sentinel: O people of Medina, where are your
scholars? I heard Allah's Messenger (may peace be upon him)
forbidding this and saying: That the people of Bani Isra'il
were ruined at the time when their women wore shuch hair.
Bk 24, Number 5307:
This hadith has been transmitted on the authority of Zuhri but
with a slight variation of wording.
Bk 24, Number 5308:
Sa'id b. Musayyib reported: Mu'awiya came to Medina and he
addressed us and he took out a bunch of hair and said: What do
I see that one of you does but that what the Jews did? (I can
well recall) that when this act (adding of artificial hair)
reached Allah's Messenger (may peace be upon him), he named it
as cheating.
Bk 24, Number 5309:
Sa, id b. Musayyib reported that Mu'awiya said one day: Should
I narrate to you the evil make−up. Allah's Apostle (may peace
be upon him) forbade cheating. It was during that time that a
person came with a staff and there was a cloth on its head,
whereupon Mu, awiya said: Behold, that is cheating. Qatada
said: This implies how women artificially increase their hair
with the help of rags.
Chapter 26: THE WOMEN WHO ARE NAKED EVEN IN THEIR DRESSES, WHO
DEVIATE FROM THE RIGHT PATH AND LEAD THEIR HUSBANDS ASTRAY
Bk 24, Number 5310:
AbU Huraira reported Allah's Messenger (may peace be upon him)
having said this: Two are the types of the denizens of Hell
whom I did not see: people having flogs like the tails of the
ox with them and they would be beating people, and the women
who would be dressed but appear to be naked, who would be
inclined (to evil) and make their husbands incline towards it.
Their heads would be like the humps of the bukht camel
inclined to one side. They will not enter Paradise and they
would not smell its odour whereas its odour would be smelt
from such and such distance.
Chapter 27: PROHIBITION OF WEARING THE GARMENT OF FALSEHOOD
Bk 24, Number 5311:
A'isha reported that a woman said: Allah's Messenger, may I
say to my (co−wife) that my husband has given me (such and
such) a thing but which he has not in fact gives me?
'Thereupon Allah's Messenger (may peace be upon him) said: The
one who makes a false statement of that which one has not been
given is like one who wears a garment of falsehood.
Bk 24, Number 5312:
Asma' reported that a woman came to Allah's Apostle (may peace
be upon him) and said: I have a co−wife. Is there any harm for
me if I give her the false impression (of getting something
from my husband which he has not in fact given me)? Thereupon
Allah's Messenger (may peace be upon him) said: The one who
creates such a (false impression) of receiving what one has
not been given is like one who wears the garment of falsehood.
Bk 24, Number 5313:
This hadith has been reported on the authority of Hisham with
the same chain of transmitters.
