1 – Jabir ibn ‘Abd Allah reported:
“I attended the Eid prayer with the Messenger of Allah ﷺ. He began with the prayer before the sermon, without either adhan or iqama. Then he stood, leaning on Bilal, and enjoined mindfulness of Allah, urged obedience to Him, exhorted the people and reminded them. After that, he moved on until he reached the women; he likewise exhorted and reminded them, saying, ‘Give in charity, for most of you are the fuel of Hell.’
A woman from the middle of the gathering¹—her cheeks were somewhat darkened—stood up and said, ‘Why is that, O Messenger of Allah?’ He replied, ‘Because you complain a great deal and are ungrateful to your husbands.’
The women then began to give in charity from their jewellery, throwing their earrings and rings into Bilal’s cloak.”²
al-Qattan, 1/20; its chain is sound.
Ibn Abi Shaybah also recorded the same report from Ibn Umar with a continuous isnad, and it too is authentic.
Its weight is further reinforced by the fact that the community has continued to act upon it, as will become clear from the forthcoming hadiths and reports.
1. Reported by Muslim, 3/19; al-Nasai, 1/233; al-Darimi, 1/377; Ibn Khuzaymah in his Sahih, 2/357, no. 1460; al-Bayhaqi, 3/296 and 300; and Ahmad, 3/318.
The hadith clearly proves the point for which we cited it; otherwise the narrator could not have described that woman as saf‘aa al-khaddayn (dark-cheeked).
1 This is Muslim’s wording. The other versions read saflat al-nisa (a woman of the rabble). Ibn al-Athir explains: with an open sin and a kasra on the fa; it means “the riffraff among the people.”
2 Some people imagine that this hadith—and similar ones such as the report from Ibn Abbas to be mentioned below under no. 6—shows the permissibility for women to wear gold bangles and rings, and they take it as evidence =