gold or iron—is it disliked?” Ahmad replied, “Yes, by Allah.” Ishāq said the same. Mālik also held this view, as ‘Abd Allah ibn Wahb related from him in al-Jāmi‘ (p. 101). Ibn Wahb also narrated it (p. 10), as did Ibn Sa‘d in al-Tabaqāt al-Kubrā (4/114), from ‘Umar—may Allah be pleased with him. ‘Abd al-Razzāq and al-Bayhaqī likewise narrated it in al-Shu‘ab, as cited in al-Jāmi‘ al-Kabīr by al-Suyūtī (4/191/1).

83 — (The Prophet—peace and blessings be upon him—permitted ‘Abd al-Rahmān ibn ‘Awf and al-Zubayr ibn al-‘Awwām—may Allah be pleased with them both—to wear silk because of an itch from which they suffered. Al-Bukhārī.) p. 82

Authentic. Al-Bukhārī (2/229, 4/84), Muslim (6/143), Abū Dāwūd (4056), al-Nasā’ī (2/297, 298), al-Tirmidhī (1/321), and Ahmad (3/127, 180, 215, 255, 273) narrated it from Anas ibn Mālik, who said:

“The Prophet—peace and blessings be upon him—permitted al-Zubayr and ‘Abd al-Rahmān to wear silk because of an itch from which they suffered.”

In one narration, Muslim and Ahmad added: “while traveling.”

Al-Tirmidhī’s wording, which is also found in one of al-Bukhārī’s narrations, is:

“‘Abd al-Rahmān ibn ‘Awf and al-Zubayr ibn al-‘Awwām complained to the Prophet—peace and blessings be upon him—of lice during a military expedition, so he permitted them to wear silk shirts.” Anas said, “I saw them wearing them.” Al-Tirmidhī said: “This is a good and authentic hadith.”

84 — (The hadith states: “Any woman who applies perfume and then passes by a group of people so that they may smell her fragrance is an adulteress, and every eye is adulterous.” Al-Nasā’ī, al-Hākim, Ibn Khuzaymah, and Ibn Hibbān in their respective Sahīhs.) p. 83