according to some of them, and they held it disliked to delay departure on the morning of Jamʿ until the light had become fully bright. (1)
The ḥadīth also explicitly states that the purpose was to differ from the idolaters.
Likewise, Ḥudhayfah ibn al-Yamān relates that the Messenger of Allah ﷺ said, “Do not drink from vessels of gold and silver, nor eat from their plates, for they are theirs in this world and yours in the Hereafter.” Agreed upon. (2)
Jubayr ibn Nufayr (3) reports from ʿAbdullāh ibn ʿAmr who said: “The Messenger of Allah ﷺ saw me wearing two garments dyed with safflower and said, ‘These are garments of the unbelievers; do not wear them.’ (4)” Related by Muslim. (5)
He explained the prohibition by stating that they are garments of the unbelievers—whether he meant that they are among the things the unbelievers deem lawful, enjoying thereby their allotted share in this world, (6) or that they are simply part of the attire customarily worn by them for that purpose.
Similarly, the ḥadīth says (7) that they take their pleasure in gold and silver utensils in
(1) The printed edition reads: “at dawn.”
(2) Reported by al-Bukhari, Book of Drinks, chapters “Drinking from Vessels of Gold” and “Vessels of Silver,” Hadith nos. 5632–5633 (10/94–96); and by Muslim, Book of Dress and Adornment, chapter “Prohibition of Using Vessels of Gold and Silver,” Hadith no. 2067, through numerous chains and wordings (3/1637–1638).
(3) This refers to Jubayr ibn Nufayr ibn Malik ibn Amir al-Hadrami al-Himsi, a second-generation narrator (mukhadram) whose father was a Companion. He is rated trustworthy and eminent; Muslim, the four Sunan compilers, and al-Bukhari in al-Adab al-mufrad all transmit from him. He died in 80 AH. See Ibn Hajar, Taqrib al-tahdhib 1/126, no. 44.
(4) MSS (J, D) read: “Do not wear it.”
(5) Muslim, Sahih, Book of Dress and Adornment, chapter “Prohibition of a Man’s Wearing a Garment Dyed with muʿaṣfar,” Hadith no. 2077 (4/1647).
(6) The phrase “for they” is omitted in MSS (J, D).
(7) The author is here conveying the sense of the hadith rather than its exact wording; the full text was quoted earlier in the previously cited agreed-upon report.