Sunan Abi Dawud
Clothing (Kitab Al-Libas)
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 us when he was with one of his...
Sunan Abi Dawud
Clothing (Kitab Al-Libas)
The tradition mentioned above has also been transmitted by 'Aishah through a different chain of narrators to the same effect.
Sunan Abi Dawud
Clothing (Kitab Al-Libas)
He (the Prophet) exiled him and he lived in a desert (outside Medina). He would come every Friday asking for food.
Sunan Abi Dawud
Clothing (Kitab Al-Libas)
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.
Sunan Abi Dawud
Clothing (Kitab Al-Libas)
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."
Sunan Abi Dawud
Clothing (Kitab Al-Libas)
I was with the Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) while Maymunah was with him. Then Ibn Umm Maktum came. This happened when we were ordered to observe veil (purdah). The Prophet (ﷺ) said: Observe veil from him. We asked: Messenger of...
Sunan Abi Dawud
Clothing (Kitab Al-Libas)
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 parts.
Sunan Abi Dawud
Clothing (Kitab Al-Libas)
On his father's authority, said that his grandfather reported the Prophet (ﷺ) said: When one of you marries his female servant to his slave or to his employee, he should not look at her private part below the navel and...
Sunan Abi Dawud
Clothing (Kitab Al-Libas)
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 man. Do...
Sunan Abi Dawud
Clothing (Kitab Al-Libas)
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 your wife for...
Sunan Abi Dawud
Clothing (Kitab Al-Libas)
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 a span. Umm Salamah said: Still it (foot)...
Sunan Abi Dawud
Clothing (Kitab Al-Libas)
Ibn Ishaq and Ayyub b. Musa transmitted it from Nafi' from Safiyyah.
Sunan Abi Dawud
Clothing (Kitab Al-Libas)
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 it, and he increased one span for...
Sunan Abi Dawud
Clothing (Kitab Al-Libas)
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: Messenger...
Sunan Abi Dawud
Clothing (Kitab Al-Libas)
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.
Sunan Abi Dawud
Clothing (Kitab Al-Libas)
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. 'Abd al-Aziz and Hafs b. 'Abd al-'Aziz mentioned...
Sunan Abi Dawud
Clothing (Kitab Al-Libas)
That he heard the Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) say: When a skin is tanned, it is pure.
Sunan Abi Dawud
Clothing (Kitab Al-Libas)
The Prophet (ﷺ) ordered that the skins of the animals which had died a natural death should be used when they are tanned.
Sunan Abi Dawud
Clothing (Kitab Al-Libas)
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 death. He replied; Its tanning is its purification.
Sunan Abi Dawud
Clothing (Kitab Al-Libas)
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 made use of them,...