and he would pray wrapped in a miṭr (a large cloak), part of which also covered his wife while she was menstruating (1).

He would likewise pray in the same garment with which he had intimate relations with his family, provided he noticed no impurity on it (2).

On one occasion he performed the Maghrib prayer wearing a silk farrūj—a kind of qabāʾ (robe). When he finished, he pulled it off abruptly, as though he loathed it, cast it aside, and said, “This is not fitting for the people of piety.” (3)

He once prayed in a khamīsah (4)—a striped mantle that had decorative markings. During the prayer he glanced at its designs, and when he finished he said, “Take this khamīsah of mine to Abū Jahm and bring me the anbijāniyyah (5) of Abū Jahm instead, for it just distracted me from my prayer (in another wording: I looked at its pattern while praying and it nearly tempted me).” (6)