Likewise, the Prophet ﷺ cursed the woman who adds hair extensions and the woman who has them added, as stated in several sound hadiths, yet some jurists regard the practice as merely disliked.

He ﷺ also said, “Whoever drinks from a silver vessel is only swallowing the fire of Hell into his belly.” (1) Still, a number of jurists classify this as nothing more than a mild reproach rather than an outright prohibition.

In the same vein, he ﷺ declared, “When two Muslims confront one another with their swords, both the killer and the one killed are in the Fire.” (2) This text must be upheld as forbidding believers to fight each other without right. Even so, we know that the combatants at the Battles of the Camel and Ṣiffīn are not in the Fire, for they had an excuse and an interpretive justification for their fighting, and their other meritorious deeds prevented the stated consequence from taking effect.

In another rigorously authenticated report he ﷺ said, “Three people Allah will neither speak to, nor look at, nor purify on the Day of Resurrection, and for them is a painful punishment: a man who possesses surplus water yet withholds it from a traveler—Allah will say to him, ‘Today I withhold My bounty from you just as you withheld the surplus of something your own hands did not produce’; a man who pledges allegiance to a leader for no motive but worldly gain—if the leader grants him what he wants he is pleased, and if he refuses he is displeased; and a man who, after the afternoon prayer, swears falsely about his merchandise, claiming, ‘I have already been offered more for it than this.’” (3) This is a grave threat against anyone who withholds his excess water, even though