Abu al-Maʿāli al-Abarqūhī informed us; al-Fath ibn ʿAbd al-Salām informed us; Hibah Allah ibn al-Ḥusayn informed us; Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad ibn al-Naqqūr narrated to us; ʿĪsā ibn ʿAlī narrated to us; Abū al-Qāsim ʿAbd Allah ibn Muḥammad narrated to us; Manṣūr ibn Abī Muzāḥim narrated to us; Ibrāhīm ibn Saʿd narrated to us, from al-Zuhrī:
The Prophet ﷺ saw a gold ring on a man’s hand, so he struck the man’s finger until the ring dropped off. He also saw two gold earrings on Umm Salamah, and he turned away from her until she cast them aside.
Thus Manṣūr transmitted it as a mursal report (1).
And with the chain that reaches Abū al-Qāsim—namely, al-Baghawī—Bishr ibn al-Walīd narrated to us; Ibrāhīm ibn Saʿd narrated to us, from al-Zuhrī, from Anas:
He said that he once noticed a silver ring on the Prophet ﷺ for a single day. The people therefore fashioned their own rings from silver and wore them. The Prophet ﷺ then discarded his ring, and they discarded theirs. On another occasion he saw a ring on a man’s hand, so he struck the man’s finger until the man threw it away (2).
Muḥammad ibn ʿAbd al-Salām al-Tamīmī, and Aḥmad ibn Hibah Allah ibn Tāj al-Umānāʾ informed us
= In the Book of Iʿtikaf (spiritual retreat): “Chapter: One must not enter the house except for a need”; “Chapter: A menstruating woman may comb the hair of the person in retreat”; “Chapter: Bathing while in retreat”; and “Chapter: The person in retreat may extend his head into the house in order to wash it.”
In the Book of Clothing: “Chapter: A menstruating woman may comb her husband’s hair.”
Muslim, 297, in the Book of Menstruation: “Chapter on the permissibility for a menstruating woman to wash her husband’s head, to comb it, on the purity of the water she leaves behind, on reclining in her lap, and on reciting the Quran there.”
(1) Al-Nasaʾi records the report with a continuous chain in his Sunan, 8/171, from al-Zuhri, from ʿAtaʾ ibn Yazid, from Abu Thaʿlaba al-Khushani, but without the phrase “and he saw two earrings on Umm Salama.” He adds that Yunus contradicted him, relating it from al-Zuhri, from Abu Idris, as a mursal report. Ahmad ibn ʿAmr ibn al-Sarh told us: Ibn Wahb told us: Yunus informed us, from Ibn Shihab, who said: Abu Idris al-Khawlani told me that a man who had met the Prophet wore a gold ring … Wearing gold is permissible for women by unanimous agreement; no dissenting opinion is known.
(2) Its chain is sound. Al-Bukhari (10/269) and Muslim (2093) also transmit it through Ibn Shihab, from Anas. Al-Hafiz notes that this is how al-Zuhri narrated the hadith from Anas, and both Shaykhs included it on his authority, yet he is deemed to have erred, because the well-known report states that the ring the Prophet discarded when people began imitating it was made of gold, as Ibn ʿUmar’s hadith explicitly says. Al-Nawawi, following Qadi ʿIyad, writes that all hadith scholars agree this was a mistake by Ibn Shihab; the only ring ever discarded was the gold one.