Clothing, Dress & Adornment

Sunan Abi Dawud

Clothing (Kitab Al-Libas)

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 (hibrah).

Sunan Abi Dawud

Clothing (Kitab Al-Libas)

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) for it clears the vision and makes the...

Sunan Abi Dawud

Clothing (Kitab Al-Libas)

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 another man wearing dirty clothes and...

Sunan Abi Dawud

Clothing (Kitab Al-Libas)

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, horses and slaves. He...

Sunan Abi Dawud

Clothing (Kitab Al-Libas)

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 saw the Messenger of Allah (ﷺ)...

Sunan Abi Dawud

Clothing (Kitab Al-Libas)

I went with my father to the Prophet (ﷺ) and saw two green garments over him.

Sunan Abi Dawud

Clothing (Kitab Al-Libas)

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 a garment dyed with a reddish...

Sunan Abi Dawud

Clothing (Kitab Al-Libas)

The word mudarrajah mentioned in the previous tradition means a colour which is neither crimson nor pink.

Sunan Abi Dawud

Clothing (Kitab Al-Libas)

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. The Prophet (ﷺ) said:...

Sunan Abi Dawud

Clothing (Kitab Al-Libas)

A man wearing two red garments passed the Prophet (ﷺ) and gave him a greeting, but he did not respond to his greeting.

Sunan Abi Dawud

Clothing (Kitab Al-Libas)

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 see that red colour...

Sunan Abi Dawud

Clothing (Kitab Al-Libas)

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 (ﷺ) peeped us. When...

Sunan Abi Dawud

Clothing (Kitab Al-Libas)

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.

Sunan Abi Dawud

Clothing (Kitab Al-Libas)

I saw the Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) at Mina giving sermon on a mule and wearing a red garment, while Ali was announcing.

Sunan Abi Dawud

Clothing (Kitab Al-Libas)

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 liked...

Sunan Abi Dawud

Clothing (Kitab Al-Libas)

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.

Sunan Abi Dawud

Clothing (Kitab Al-Libas)

The Prophet (ﷺ) entered Mecca in the year of the Conquest while he had a black turben over him.

Sunan Abi Dawud

Clothing (Kitab Al-Libas)

I saw the Prophet (ﷺ) on the pulpit and he wore a black turban, and he let both the ends hang between his shoulders.

Sunan Abi Dawud

Clothing (Kitab Al-Libas)

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 us and the polytheists is that we wear turbans...

Sunan Abi Dawud

Clothing (Kitab Al-Libas)

The Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) put a turban on me and let the ends hang in front of him and behind me.