the two Ṣaḥīḥs, by construing the prohibition as applying only to singling out Saturday for fasting; if one fasts a day before it or a day after it, there is no objection. This last position reconciles the two reports, and when reconciliation is possible there is no anomaly, for anomaly requires contradiction, and here there is none. Thus they said: the ḥadīth forbidding the fast of Saturday concerns fasting it in isolation, whereas combining it with the preceding or following day is unobjectionable.

A third example: several reports—though not found in Bukhārī or Muslim—forbid wearing circular gold ornaments such as rings, bracelets, and the like.¹ Other reports in the two Ṣaḥīḥs and elsewhere indicate that such jewelry is permissible, as in the ḥadīth of Jābir ﵁ in which the Prophet ﷺ ordered the women to give charity, and they began throwing their rings and earrings into Bilāl’s cloak.² Likewise, when the Prophet ﷺ saw a man wearing a gold ring, he took it, cast it aside, and said, “One of you deliberately picks up a live ember from the Fire and places it in his hand.”³

Some scholars therefore held that the prohibition of circular gold ornaments is a binding proof to be acted upon.