“Do not wear gold; I fear the flames for you.”

Ibn ʿAsākir 19 / 124 / 2 also reports, through two further lines of transmission, that a daughter of Abū Hurayrah once said to him, “The servant-girls taunt me, saying, ‘Your father does not adorn you with gold!’” He replied, “Tell them: ‘Indeed, my father does not adorn me with gold; he fears that the flames will touch me.’”

ʿAbd al-Razzāq records the same report under 19938, and al-Baghawī cites it with a suspended chain in Sharḥ al-Sunnah 3 / 210 / 82. Al-Baghawī then mentions the scholarly disagreement on this issue: after noting that, according to the majority, women may wear a gold ring and adorn themselves with it, he says, “Some scholars nonetheless regarded it as disliked.”

He next cites the ḥadīth of Asmāʾ bint Yazīd, part of which has already appeared in the main text on page 236, with the remainder in footnote 237.

The “dislike” that al-Baghawī (may Allah have mercy on him) attributes to those scholars is a prohibitive dislike (karāha taḥrīmiyya), for that is how the early generations understood the term, following the Qur’anic style in numerous noble verses—such as His saying: