and many of them persist in clinging to those objections, taking them as proofs that allow them to disregard these hadiths. For that reason I have considered it necessary to set out those specious arguments and answer them, so that anyone unfamiliar with the ways in which hadiths are harmonised will not be misled by them and thereby oppose sound, well-established reports without proof or evidence. I therefore say:

The claim of consensus on the unrestricted permissibility of gold for women and its refutation

1- Some have alleged a consensus that gold is absolutely permissible for women, but this claim is invalid for several reasons:

The genuine consensus:

First: A sound consensus on this issue cannot be proven, even though it was transmitted by al-Bayhaqi in his Sunan (4/124) and by others, such as the hadith scholar Ibn Ḥajar in Fatḥ al-Bārī. The latter, in fact, appears to have hinted at its unsoundness when he said (10/260) in his discussion of gold rings:

“It has been reported that there is consensus on its permissibility for women.”

Shortly we shall present evidence that overturns this alleged consensus, for no one is able