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Wakīʿ said: Ibn Abī Laylā narrated to us, from Muḥammad ibn ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn Saʿd ibn Zurārah, from Muḥammad ibn ʿAmr ibn Sharḥabīl, from Qays ibn Saʿd, who said: “The Prophet ﷺ came to us, so we set out water for him to bathe, and he performed a full bath. I then brought him a milḥafa dyed with wars (a yellow plant dye). He wrapped it around himself, and it is as though I can still see the color of the wars on the folds of his waist.”

Hishām ibn Saʿd reported from Yaḥyā ibn ʿAbd Allah ibn Mālik that the Messenger of Allah ﷺ used to dye his garments with saffron—his tunic, his mantle, and his turban. This report is mursal.

Muṣʿab ibn ʿAbd Allah ibn Muṣʿab al-Zubayrī said: “I heard my father relate from Ismāʿīl ibn ʿAbd Allah ibn Jaʿfar, from his father, who said: ‘I saw the Messenger of Allah ﷺ wearing a mantle and a turban that had been dyed with ʿabīr.’” Muṣʿab added, “According to us, ʿabīr is saffron.” (Muṣʿab’s reliability is somewhat weak.)

Umm Salamah reported: “At times the Prophet’s ﷺ tunic and mantle were dyed with saffron and wars.”

Muḥammad ibn Saʿd transmitted it through Ibn Abī Fudayk, from Zakariyyā ibn Ibrāhīm, from Rukayḥ ibn Abī ʿUbaydah ibn ʿAbd Allah ibn Zamʿah, from his father, from his mother, from Umm Salamah. This is an unusual Medinan chain.

Zayd ibn Aslam also said: “The Messenger of Allah ﷺ used to dye his clothes—even his turban—with saffron.”

Yet these mursal reports cannot outweigh what is found in the sound collections concerning the Prophet’s ﷺ prohibition of