1790 — Al-Firyābī also narrated to us, saying: Abū Ayyūb Sulaymān ibn ʿAbd al-Rahmān al-Dimashqī narrated to us, saying: Khālid ibn Yazīd ibn Abī Mālik narrated to us, from his father, from ʿAtāʾ ibn Abī Rabāh, from Ibn ʿUmar, who was then at Minā. A man from Basra came to him and asked him about letting the end of one’s turban hang down behind. Ibn ʿUmar replied, “I shall tell you about that so that you may know, if Allah wills.”

He then related a lengthy hadith, in which he said: The Messenger of Allah—may Allah bless him and grant him peace—then instructed Ibn ʿAwf, meaning ʿAbd al-Rahmān ibn ʿAwf, to prepare for an expedition on which he was sending him. The next morning, Ibn ʿAwf had wrapped a black cotton turban around his head. He said: The Prophet—may Allah bless him and grant him peace—drew him close, unwound it, and then wrapped it around his head himself, leaving ⦗2306⦘ four fingerbreadths or thereabouts hanging down behind him. He then said, “Wear your turban this way, O Ibn ʿAwf, for it is more distinctive and more becoming.”