Second: Even if this assertion were valid, it would entail that the prohibition of gold for men was laid down at the very moment it was forbidden for women, if not earlier. Any sensible reader can see that his phrase “in the earliest days of Islam” clearly refers to the Meccan period, or—at the furthest stretch—to the very beginning of the Madinan era. On that basis, we can state categorically that his claim is false, for the ban on gold for men was issued only toward the end of the Prophet’s ﷺ life, as al-Ḥāfiẓ al-Dhahabī notes explicitly in Talkhīṣ al-Mustadrak 3 / 231. The point is further supported by the report recorded by al-Bukhārī in the Book of Dress and by Aḥmad in his Musnad 4 / 328, on the authority of al-Miswar ibn Makhrama:
“His father Makhrama said to him, ‘My son, I have heard that the Prophet ﷺ has received a number of cloaks and is distributing them. Let us go to him.’ So we went, … and he came out wearing a brocade cloak fastened with gold. He said, ‘O Makhrama, I kept this especially for you,’ and he handed it to him.”

Makhrama did not embrace Islam until the Year of the Conquest, eight and a half years after the Hijrah. This is explicit evidence that gold remained permissible until roughly a year and a half before the Prophet’s ﷺ passing; had that not been the case