Clothing (Kitab Al-Libas)

Book 34 of 43 · Sunan Abi Dawud

139 hadith Hadith 4020–4158 Sunni
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Clothing (Kitab Al-Libas)

Sunan Abi Dawud

139 hadith Hadith 4020–4158 Sunni

About This Book

Compiled during the 833–888 CE period by al-Sijistani.

Clothing (Kitab Al-Libas) is book 34 of 43 in Sunan Abi Dawud, containing 139 hadith.

Geography

This collection was compiled primarily in Basra (later life). The narrators in this book are associated with 35 distinct geographic locations.

Basra Kufa Cairo Damascus Medina Abyssinia Khurasan al-Ray Makkah Merv Tusi al-Ramla Asbahan Bulkh Mada'in Hamadan Wasit al-Yamama Baghdad Basrah Yemen Asqalan Musal Hiran Hims Sana Basri Nisa Rome Nisapur Antioch Taif الموصل Iraq al-Halb

Narrators in This Book

This book features 296 narrators in its chains of transmission. The most frequently cited are Masdad bin Masrhad مسدد بن مسرهد بن مسربل, Aisha bint Abi Bakr, al-Zuhri ابن شهاب الزهري‎, محمد بن مسلم, Musa bin Isma'il al-Munqari al-Tabudhaki موسى بن إسماعيل المنقري - لتبوذكي, Qatada قتادة.

Hadith in This Book 139 hadith

1 4020 Sahih
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…
2 4021 Daif
The tradition mentioned above has also been transmitted by Al-Jariri through a different chain of narrators in a similar way.
3 4022 Daif
'Abd al-Wahhab al-Thaqafi did not mention the name of Abu Sa'id. Hammad b. Salamah said: From al-Jariri, from Abu al-'Ala', from the Prophet (ﷺ). Abu Dawud said: The hearing of…
4 4023 Hasan
The Prophet (ﷺ) said: If anyone eats food and then says: "Praise be to Allah Who has fed me with this food and provided me with it through no might and power on my part," he will…
5 4024 Sahih
Once the Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) was brought some garments among which was a small cloak with a border and black stripes. He said: Whom do you think to be more deserving for it ?…
6 4025 Sahih
The clothing which the Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) liked best was shirt.
7 4026 Sahih
No clothing was dearer to be Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) than shirt.
8 4027 Daif
The sleeve of the shirt of the Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) came to the wrist.
9 4028 Sahih
The Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) distributed outer garments with full-length sleeves but did not give Makhramah anything. Makhramah said: Go with us to the Messenger of Allah (ﷺ). So I…
10 4029 Hasan
The Prophet (ﷺ) as saying: If anyone wears a garment for gaining fame, Allah will clothe him in a similar garment on the Day of Resurrection.
11 4030 Hasan
Garment of disgrace.
12 4031 Hasan Sahih
The Prophet (ﷺ) said: He who copies any people is one of them.
13 4032 Hasan Isnaad
The Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) went out one morning wearing a variegated garment of black goat hair. Narrated Utbah ibn AbdusSulami: I asked the Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) to…
14 4033 Sahih
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…
15 4034 Daif
The King Dhu Yazan presented to the apostle of Allah (ﷺ) a suit of clothes which he had purchased for thirty-three camels or thirty-three she-camels. He accepted it.
16 4035 Daif
The Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) purchased a suit of clothes for twenty she-camels and some more and he presented it to Dhu Yazan.
17 4036 Sahih
I entered upon 'Aishah, and she brought a coarse lower garment that was manufactured in the Yemen and a patched garment called mulabbadah. She swore by Allah that the spirit of…
18 4037 Hasan Isnaad
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…
19 4038 Daif Isnaad
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…
20 4039 Sahih
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…
21 4040 Sahih
'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…
22 4041 Sahih
He said: A robe of silk brocade. He then sent him a Jubbah of brocade and said: You may sell it and fulfill your need.
23 4042 Sahih
'Umar wrote to 'Utbah b. Farqad that the Prophet (ﷺ) forbade (wearing) silk except so-and-so, and so-and-so, to the extent of two, three, or four fingers.
24 4043 Sahih
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…
25 4044 Sahih
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.
26 4045 Sahih
(He forbade) reading the Qur'an while bowing and prostrating.
27 4046 Hasan Sahih
I do not say that he had forbidden you.
28 4047 Daif Isnaad
The king of Rome presented a fur of silk brocade to the Prophet (ﷺ) and he wore it. The scene that his hands were moving (while wearing the robe) is before my eyes. He then sent…
29 4048 Sahih
The Prophet (ﷺ) said: I do not ride on purple, or wear a garment dyed with saffron, or wear shirt hemmed with silk. Pointing to the collar of his shirt al-Hasan (al-Basri) said:…
30 4049 Daif
my companion went to the mosque before me. I went there after him and sat beside him. He asked me: Did you hear the preaching of AbuRayhanah? I said: No. He said: I heard him…
31 4050 Sahih
It is forbidden to use purple saddle-clothes.
32 4051 Sahih
The Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) forbade me to wear a gold ring, or a Qassi garment or the use purple saddle-cloths.
33 4052 Sahih
The Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) once prayed wearing a garment having marks. He looked at its marks. When he saluted, he said: Take this garment of mine to AbuJahm, for it turned my…
34 4053 Daif
A similar tradition has also been transmitted by 'Aishah through a different chain of narrators. But the former is more perfect.
35 4054 Sahih
Abdullah AbuUmar, client of Asma', daughter of AbuBakr, said: I saw Ibn Umar buying a Syrian garment in the market. When he saw that it had red warp, he returned it. I then came…
36 4055 Sahih
It is only a garment wholly made of silk which the Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) forbade, but there is no harm in the ornamented border and the wrap.
37 4056 Sahih
The Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) gave license to 'Abd al-Rahman b. 'Awf and al-Zubair b. al-'Awwam to wear silk shirts during a journey because of an itch which they had.
38 4057 Sahih
The Prophet of Allah (ﷺ) took silk and held it in his right hand, and took gold and held it in his left hand and said: both of these are prohibited to the males of my community.
39 4058 Sahih
The word "siyara" means striped with silk.
40 4059 Sahih Isnaad
We used to take it away (i.e. silk) from boys, and leave it for girls. Mis'ar said: I asked Amr ibn Dinar about it, but he did not know it.
41 4060 Sahih
We asked Anas b. Malik: Which cloth was dearer to the Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) ? or Which cloth did the Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) like best to wear ? He replied: The striped cloaks…
42 4061 Sahih
The Prophet (ﷺ) said: Wear your white garments, for they are among your best garments, and shroud your dead in them. Among the best types of collyrium you use is antimony (ithmid)…
43 4062 Sahih
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…
44 4063 Sahih
I came to the Prophet (ﷺ) wearing a poor garment and he said (to me): Have you any property? He replied: Yes. He asked: What kind is it? He said: Allah has given me camels. Sheep,…
45 4064 Sahih Isnaad
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…
46 4065 Sahih
I went with my father to the Prophet (ﷺ) and saw two green garments over him.
47 4066 Hasan
On his father's authority, said that his grandfather said: We came down with the Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) from a turning of a valley. He turned his attention to me and I was wearing…
48 4067 Sahih Maqtu
The word mudarrajah mentioned in the previous tradition means a colour which is neither crimson nor pink.
49 4068 Daif
The Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) saw me. The version of AbuAli al-Lula' has: I think I wore a garment dyed with a reddish yellow colour. He asked: What is this? So I went and burnt it.…
50 4069 Daif
A man wearing two red garments passed the Prophet (ﷺ) and gave him a greeting, but he did not respond to his greeting.
51 4070 Daif Isnaad
We went out with the Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) on a journey, and we had on our saddles and camels garments consisting of red warp of wool. The Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) said: Do I not…
52 4071 Daif Isnaad
That a woman of Banu Asad: One day I was with Zaynab, the wife of the Messenger of Allah (ﷺ), and we were dyeing her clothes with red ochre. In the meantime the Messenger of Allah…
53 4072 Sahih
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.
54 4073 Sahih
I saw the Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) at Mina giving sermon on a mule and wearing a red garment, while Ali was announcing.
55 4074 Sahih
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…
56 4075 Daif
When I came to the Prophet (ﷺ), he was sitting with his hands round his knees wearing the cloak the fringe of which was over his feet.
57 4076 Sahih
The Prophet (ﷺ) entered Mecca in the year of the Conquest while he had a black turben over him.
58 4077 Sahih
I saw the Prophet (ﷺ) on the pulpit and he wore a black turban, and he let both the ends hang between his shoulders.
59 4078 Daif
Ali quoting his father said: Rukanah wrestled with the Prophet (ﷺ) and the Prophet (ﷺ) threw him on the ground. Rukanah said: I heard the Prophet (ﷺ) say: The difference between…
60 4079 Daif
The Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) put a turban on me and let the ends hang in front of him and behind me.
61 4080 Sahih Isnaad
The Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) forbade wearing clothes in two styles: that a man sits in a single garment with his hands round his knees and uncover his private parts towards heaven…
62 4081 Sahih
The Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) forbade that a man should wrap himself completely in a garment with his hands hidden it, or sit in a single garment with his hands round his knees.
63 4082 Sahih
I came to the Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) with a company of Muzainah and we swore allegiance to him. The buttons of his shirt were open. I swore allegiance to him and I put my hand…
64 4083 Sahih
We were seated in our house in the noonday heat. Someone said to Abu Bakr: Here is the Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) coming to us shading his head at the hour when he would not generally…
65 4084 Sahih
I saw a man whose opinion was accepted by the people, and whatever he said they submitted to it. I asked: Who is he? They said: This is the Messenger of Allah (ﷺ). I said: On…
66 4085 Sahih
The Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) as saying: If anyone trails his garment arrogantly, Allah will not look at him on the Day of Resurrection. Then Abu Bakr said: One of the sides of my…
67 4086 Daif
A man was praying with his lower garment hanging down. The Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) said to him: Go and perform ablution. He then went and performed ablution. He then came and he…
68 4087 Sahih
The Prophet (ﷺ) as saying: There are three to whom Allah will not speak and at whom He will not look on the Day of Resurrection, and whom He will not declare pure, and they will…
69 4088 Sahih
Mannan is the one takes account of anything he gives.
70 4089 Daif
My father told me that he was a companion of Abu Darda'. There was in Damascus a man from the companions of the Prophet (ﷺ), called Ibn al-Hanzaliyyah. He was a recluse and rarely…
71 4090 Sahih
The Prophet (ﷺ) said: Allah Most High says: Pride is my cloak and majesty is my lower garment, and I shall throw him who view with me regarding one of them into Hell.
72 4091 Sahih
The Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) as saying: He who has in his heart as much pride as much pride as grain of mustard-seed will not enter paradise. And he who has in his heart as much…
73 4092 Sahih Isnaad
A man who was beautiful came to the Prophet (ﷺ). He said: Messenger of Allah, I am a man who likes beauty, and I have been given some of it, as you see. And I do not like that…
74 4093 Sahih
I asked Abu Sa'id al-Khudri about wearing lower garment. He said: You have come to the man who knows it very well. The Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) said: The way for a believer to wear…
75 4094 Sahih
The Prophet (ﷺ) said: Hanging down is in lower garment, shirt and turban. If anyone trails any of them conceitedly, Allah will not look at him on the Day of Resurrection.
76 4095 Sahih Isnaad
What the Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) said about lower garment also applies to shirt.
77 4096 Sahih Isnaad
Why do you put on the lower garment in this way? He replied: It is how I saw the Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) do it.
78 4097 Sahih
The Prophet (ﷺ) cursed women who imitate men and men who imitate women.
79 4098 Sahih
The Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) cursed the man who dressed like a woman and the woman who dressed like a man.
80 4099 Sahih
The Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) cursed mannish women.
81 4100 Daif Isnaad
When Surat an-Nur came down, they took the curtains, tore them and made head covers (veils) of them.
82 4101 Sahih
When the verse "That they should cast their outer garments over their persons" was revealed, the women of Ansar came out as if they had crows over their heads by wearing outer…
83 4102 Sahih
May Allah have mercy on the early immigrant women. When the verse "That they should draw their veils over their bosoms" was revealed, they tore their thick outer garments and made…
84 4103 Sahih
I saw (this tradition) in the writing of my maternal uncle from 'Aqil, from Ibn Shihab through a different chain of narrators and to the same effect.
85 4104 Sahih
Asma, daughter of AbuBakr, entered upon the Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) wearing thin clothes. The Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) turned his attention from her. He said: O Asma', when a woman…
86 4105 Sahih
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…
87 4106 Sahih
The Prophet (ﷺ) brought Fatimah a slave which he donated to her. Fatimah wore a garment which, when she covered her head, did not reach her feet, and when she covered her feet by…
88 4107 Sahih
A mukhannath (eunuch) used to enter upon the wives of Prophet (ﷺ). They (the people) counted him among those who were free of physical needs. One day the Prophet (ﷺ) entered upon…
89 4108 Daif
The tradition mentioned above has also been transmitted by 'Aishah through a different chain of narrators to the same effect.
90 4109 Sahih
He (the Prophet) exiled him and he lived in a desert (outside Medina). He would come every Friday asking for food.
91 4110 Sahih
He was told: Messenger of Allah, in that case he will of starvation. So he allowed him to visit (the cit) twice a week so that he might ask for food and go back.
92 4111 Hasan Isnaad
The verse: "And say to the believing women that they should lower gaze was partly abrogated by the verse: "Such elderly women as are past the prospect of marriage."
93 4112 Daif
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:…
94 4113 Hasan
On his father's authority, said that his grandfather reported the Prophet (ﷺ) said: When one of you marries his male-slave to his slave-woman, he should not look at her private…
95 4114 Hasan
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…
96 4115 Daif
The Prophet (ﷺ) came to visit her when she was veiled, and said: use one fold and not two. Abu Dawud said: "Use one fold and not two" means: "Do not fold it like the turban of a…
97 4116 Daif
The Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) was brought some pieces of fine Egyptian linen and he gave me one and said: Divide it into two; cut one of the pieces into a shirt and give the other to…
98 4117 Sahih
When the Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) mentioned lower garment, Umm Salamah, wife of the Messenger of Allah (ﷺ), asked him: And a woman, Messenger of Allah? He replied: She may hang down…
99 4118 Daif
Ibn Ishaq and Ayyub b. Musa transmitted it from Nafi' from Safiyyah.
100 4119 Sahih
The Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) gave licence to the Mothers of the believers (i.e. the wives of the Prophet) to hang down their lower garment a span. Then they asked him to increase…
101 4120 Sahih
A sheep was given in alms to a female client of ours, but it died. The Prophet (ﷺ) passed it and said: Why did you not tan its skin and get some good out of it ? They replied:…
102 4121 Sahih
He said: Why did you not make use of it ? He then mentioned the rest of the tradition to the same effect but did not mention tanning.
103 4122 Sahih Isnaad Maqtu
Al-Zuhri used to deny tanning and say: Some good can be got out of it in any condition Abu Dawud said: Al-Auza'i, Yunus and 'Uqail did not mention tanning. al-Zubaidi, Sa'id b.…
104 4123 Sahih
That he heard the Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) say: When a skin is tanned, it is pure.
105 4124 Daif
The Prophet (ﷺ) ordered that the skins of the animals which had died a natural death should be used when they are tanned.
106 4125 Sahih
On the expedition of Tabuk the Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) came to a household and, seeing a bucket hanging, asked for water. They said: Messenger of Allah, the animal died a natural…
107 4126 Sahih
I had some sheep at Uhud, and they began to die. I then entered upon Maymunah, wife of the Prophet (ﷺ), and mentioned it to her. Maymunah said to me: If you took their skins and…
108 4127 Sahih
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…
109 4128 Sahih
They entered and I sat at the door. Then they came out and told me that Abdullah ibn Ukaym had informed them that the Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) had written to Juhaynah one month…
110 4129 Sahih
The Prophet (ﷺ) said: Do not ride on silk stuff and panther skins. AbuSa'id said to us: AbuDawud said to us: The name of AbulMu'tamir is Yazid ibn Tahman. He lived in al-Hirah.
111 4130 Hasan
The Prophet (ﷺ) as saying: The angels do not accompany those fellow travellers who have panther skin.
112 4131 Sahih
Al-Miqdam ibn Ma'dikarib and a man of Banu Asad from the people of Qinnisrin went to Mu'awiyah ibn AbuSufyan. Mu'awiyah said to al-Miqdam: Do you know that al-Hasan ibn Ali…
113 4132 Sahih
The Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) forbade (the use of) the skins of beasts of prey.
114 4133 Sahih
We were with the Prophet (ﷺ) on a journey. He said: Make a general practice of wearing sandals, for a man keeps riding as long as he wears sandals.
115 4134 Sahih
The sandals of the Prophet (ﷺ) had two thongs.
116 4135 Sahih
The Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) forbade that a man should put on sandals while standing.
117 4136 Sahih
The Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) as saying: None of you should walk with one sandal, but should wear a pair or should put off both of them.
118 4137 Sahih
The Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) as saying: When the thong (of a sandal) of one of you is cut off, he should not walk with one sandal till he repairs his thongs. He should not walk with…
119 4138 Daif Isnaad
It is part of the Sunnah that when a man sits down, he should take off his sandals and place them at his side.
120 4139 Sahih
The Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) as saying: When one of you puts on sandals, he should put on his right one first, and when he takes them off, he should take off the left one first ; so…
121 4140 Sahih
The Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) liked to begin with the right side as far as possible in all conditions: in his purification, and combing. The narrator Muslim added: "in using…
122 4141 Sahih
The Prophet (ﷺ) said: When you put on (a garment) and when you perform ablution, you should begin with your right side.
123 4142 Sahih
The Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) mentioned bedding and said: There should be bedding for a man, bedding for his wife, and third for a guest, but a fourth for the devil.
124 4143 Sahih
When I came to the Prophet (ﷺ) in his house, I saw him sitting reclining on a pillow. The narrator Ibn al-Jarrah added: "on his left side". Abu Dawud said: Ishaq b. Mansur…
125 4144 Sahih Isnaad
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…
126 4145 Sahih
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.
127 4146 Sahih
The pillow of the Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) on which he slept at night (according to the version on Ibn Mani') was of leather stuffed with palm fibre (according to the agreed…
128 4147 Sahih
The bedding of the Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) consisted of leather stuffed with palm fibre.
129 4148 Sahih
Her bedding was in front of the place of prayer of the Prophet (ﷺ).
130 4149 Sahih
The Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) came to Fatimah and found a curtain hanging at her door, so he did not enter. Whenever he entered (the house), he would visit her first. Then Ali came…
131 4150 Sahih
"The curtain was embellished."
132 4151 Sahih
The Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) never left in his house anything containing the figure of a cross without destroying it.
133 4152 Daif
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.
134 4153 Sahih
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…
135 4154 Sahih Isnaad
I said: Mother, he has told me that the Prophet (ﷺ) has said: He also said the words ; Sa'id b. yasir client of Banu al-Najjar.
136 4155 Sahih
The Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) as saying: The angels do not enter the house which contains a picture. Busr (b. Sa'id), the transmitter of this tradition, said: Zaid (b. Khalid…
137 4156 Hasan Sahih
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…
138 4157 Sahih
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…
139 4158 Sahih
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…