Jābir and Ibn ʿAbbās report that they heard the Messenger of Allah—peace and blessings be upon him—say:

“The trousers are for the one who cannot find a waist-wrapper, and the leather socks are for the one who cannot find sandals.”

The majority of scholars permit a pilgrim who lacks sandals to wear leather socks after cutting them below the ankles. Aḥmad, however, held that such a pilgrim may wear the leather socks without cutting them, taking the wording of Ibn ʿAbbās’s ḥadīth in its unrestricted sense. ʿAṭāʾ remarked, “Cutting them is corruption, and Allah does not love corruption.”

They also disagreed about someone who wears the leather socks cut down even though sandals are available. Mālik ruled that he must offer a compensatory penalty (fidya); Abū Thawr took the same view. Abū Ḥanīfah said no fidya is required, and both opinions are reported from al-Shāfiʿī—a matter that will be discussed later under the relevant rulings.

The scholars unanimously agree that a pilgrim in iḥrām may not wear any garment dyed with wars or saffron, in accordance with the Prophet’s—peace and blessings be upon him—statement in the ḥadīth of Ibn ʿUmar: “Do not wear any garment that has been touched by saffron or wars.”

They differed, however, concerning garments dyed with muʿaṣfar. Mālik saw no harm in them, saying that muʿaṣfar is not a perfume. Abū Ḥanīfah and al-Thawrī regarded it as a perfume and therefore held that wearing it entails a fidya. Abū Ḥanīfah’s evidence is the report recorded by Mālik from ʿAlī: “The Prophet—peace and blessings be upon him—forbade wearing qassi cloth and muʿaṣfar garments.”

There is consensus that a woman’s state of consecration pertains to her face: she may cover her head and conceal her hair, and she may let a garment fall lightly over her face from above her head to screen herself from men’s gaze. ʿĀʾishah related, “We were with the Messenger of Allah—peace and blessings be upon him—while we were in iḥrām. When riders passed by us we would let our garments drop over our faces from the tops of our heads, and when they had gone on we would lift them.” No other report speaks of women covering their faces except what Mālik narrated from Fāṭimah bint al-Mundhir: “We used to cover our faces while in iḥrām when we were with Asmāʾ bint Abī Bakr al-Ṣiddīq.”

The jurists unanimously agree that a male pilgrim may not cover his head, but they differed about his covering his face. Mālik narrates from Ibn ʿUmar that “whatever is above the chin of the head is not to be covered by the person in iḥrām,” and this is Mālik’s own position. It is also related from him that if he