wearing saffron-dyed garments. In another wording he said, “He forbade a man to saffron himself.” It seems that the practice was at first allowed and was later prohibited.

Hammād ibn Salamah narrated from ʿAlī ibn Zayd ibn Judʿān—who is weak—from Anas ibn Mālik: “The ruler of Byzantium sent the Messenger of Allah ﷺ a flowing robe of fine silk (sundus). He put it on, and I could almost see its sleeves fluttering because of their length. The people began to say, ‘Messenger of Allah, has this been sent down to you from heaven?’ He replied, ‘Why are you so amazed by it? By Him in whose hand is my soul, a single napkin belonging to Saʿd ibn Muʿādh in Paradise is better than this.’ He then forwarded the robe to Jaʿfar ibn Abī Ṭālib, who put it on. The Prophet ﷺ said, ‘I did not give it to you so that you could wear it.’ Jaʿfar asked, ‘Then what should I do with it?’ He answered, ‘Send it to your brother the Negus.’ ”

Al-Layth ibn Saʿd said: Yazīd ibn Abī Ḥabīb told me, from Abū al-Khair, from ʿUqbah ibn ʿĀmir, that he presented the Messenger of Allah ﷺ with a furūj—meaning a silk robe. The Prophet put it on, prayed in it, then took it off forcefully as though repelled by it and said, “This is not suitable for the God-fearing.”

Mālik related from ʿAlqamāh ibn Abī ʿAlqamāh, from his mother, from ʿĀʾishah: Abū al-Jahm ibn Ḥudhayfah gifted the Messenger of Allah ﷺ a Syrian khamīṣah with a decorative border. He wore it to the prayer, but when he finished he said, “Return this khamīṣah to Abū al-Jahm, for I looked at its ornamentation during the prayer and it nearly distracted me.”

Hishām ibn ʿUrwah reported from his father, from ʿUmar ibn Abī Salamah, that he saw the Messenger of Allah ﷺ praying in the house of Umm Salamah wrapped in a single cloth. A sound report conveying the same is likewise traced back to Anas.