It appears under number 2800 in the sixth volume—may Allah facilitate its publication.
I say: Islam has stressed the prohibition of tabarruj to such an extent that it ranks it alongside polytheism, fornication, theft, and other grave sins. This became clear when the Prophet ﷺ took the pledge of allegiance from the women, stipulating that they refrain from it. ʿAbd Allah ibn ʿAmr, may Allah be pleased with him, said:
“Umaymah bint Ruqayqah came to the Messenger of Allah ﷺ to pledge her allegiance to Islam. He said, ‘I accept your pledge that you will not associate anything with Allah, will not steal, will not commit adultery, will not kill your child, will not fabricate a slander that you invent between your hands and feet, will not wail over the dead, and will not display your adornment as the first Age of Ignorance did.’” 1
And know that there is nothing of adornment in a woman’s cloak in which she wraps herself
It was narrated by Ahmad (2/196) with a hasan chain. Al-Haythami remarks in Majmaʿ al-Zawaʾid (6/37): “It was transmitted by al-Tabarani, and its narrators are trustworthy.” Thus he attributes it only to al-Tabarani and not to Ahmad; I am unsure whether this is his oversight or a typesetting error. Al-Suyuti, in al-Durr al-Manthur (6/209), cites it only from Ahmad and Ibn Mardawayh. There is also another hadith about the Prophet’s ﷺ pledge with women that they must not practise tabarruj (wanton display), reported by al-Tabarani in al-Kabir on the authority of Ibn Abbas.
Al-Alusi says in Ruh al-Maʿani (6/56): “Know, moreover, that what most well-to-do women in our day wear over their clothes when they leave their homes should, in my view, be classed among the adornments whose display is forbidden. It is a silk covering of many colours, embellished with gold and silver designs that dazzle the eyes. When husbands and the like allow them to go out in it and to walk thus among non-relatives, this betrays a lack of ghirah (protective jealousy);