knowledge, so that they could carry books inside them.
136 – The report ascribed to one of the leading imams that one of his sleeves was wide while the other was narrow is sheer fabrication.
Lengthening the turban-tail falls under the forbidden practice of isbāl
137 – In the same way, letting the turban-tail (dhūʾābah) hang very low is a form of isbāl (allowing garments to trail below the prescribed limit) that has been prohibited.
138 – The routine practice of wearing ṭayālisah (1) over one’s turbans has no foundation in the Sunnah; it was never done by the Prophet ﷺ or his Companions.
139 – On the contrary, Ṣaḥīḥ Muslim (2) relates—through the narration of al-Nawwās ibn Samʿān—concerning the Antichrist that he will appear accompanied by seventy thousand muṭaylas, Jews from Isfahān wrapped in such cloaks.
Ṭayālisah are among the emblems of the Jews
140 – Other reports likewise state that ṭayālisah are one of the distinctive signs of the Jews (3).
141 – For that reason some scholars deemed wearing them disliked, citing the Prophet’s ﷺ statement recorded by Abū Dāwūd and others (4): “Whoever imitates a people is counted among them.”