consisting of a waist-wrapper and an upper cloak, with his waist-wrapper hanging below the ankles. The Messenger of Allah (may Allah bless him and grant him peace) began taking hold of the edge of his garment, humbling himself before Allah, and saying, “O Allah, Your servant, the son of Your servant and the son of Your bondwoman,” until Amr ibn Zurarah heard it. The report then continues in similar wording, adding: “O Amr ibn Zurarah, Allah does not love one who lets his garment hang below the ankles.”

Al-Haythami said: “Al-Tabarani transmitted it through several chains of transmission, and the narrators of one of them are trustworthy.” The additional wording has a corroborating report in The Branches of Faith (2/222/2), and another that will appear at the beginning of the ninth volume, no. 4004. It also has a third corroborating report, narrated by Amr ibn al-Sharid from his father:

“The Prophet (may Allah bless him and grant him peace) followed a man from Thaqif, then hastened after him until he caught hold of his garment and said, ‘Raise your waist-wrapper.’ The man uncovered his knees and said, ‘O Messenger of Allah, I am bow-legged, and my knees knock together.’ The Messenger of Allah (may Allah bless him and grant him peace) replied, ‘Everything Allah has created is good.’”

He said: That man was never seen thereafter except with his waist-wrapper reaching midway down his shins, until he died.

I say: Its chain of transmission is authentic according to the criteria of al-Bukhari and Muslim. It has already been cited under no. 1441.

Part of it is corroborated by the hadith of Hudhayfah, who said: The Messenger of Allah (may Allah bless him and grant him peace) said: “The proper length of the waist-wrapper is midway down the shins, at the calf muscle. If you insist, then lower; and if you insist, then below the calf. But the ankles have no share in the waist-wrapper.”

Al-Nasa’i (2/299) transmitted it through al-A‘mash—the wording is his—and al-Tirmidhi