ʿAmr said, “I asked al-Qāsim ibn Muḥammad, ‘Some people claim that the Messenger of Allah ﷺ forbade the two “red things”: the safflower-dyed cloth (muʿaṣfar) and gold.’ He answered, ‘They have lied, by Allah! I have seen ʿĀʾishah wearing safflower-dyed garments and wearing gold rings.’

Others, however, transmitted the report—other than ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz—with the wording: ‘She used to wear the two “red things”: the gilded¹ and the safflower-dyed.’ Ibn Saʿd also recorded it, saying: ‘Abū Bakr ibn ʿAbd Allāh ibn Abī Uways told us; Sulaymān ibn Bilāl narrated to us from ʿAmr…’ This isnād is stronger, for Sulaymān is more reliable than ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz.

If the mention of a ring in this report from ʿĀʾishah is verified, the reply will follow; otherwise, it carries no weight at all, because the other—more authentic—version makes no reference to a ring. On this basis it is like her other hadith, likewise through al-Qāsim, that ʿĀʾishah used to adorn her sister’s daughters with gold yet did not pay zakat on it. Aḥmad narrated it in the Masāʾil of ʿAbd Allāh, p. 145, with a sound chain. Thus, it should be understood as referring to gold…

¹ I.e., gold jewelry.