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3555. It was narrated from Sahl bin Sa'd Sā'idi that a woman came to the Messenger of Allāh ﷺ with a woven sheet - he said:[2] "What type of woven sheet?" He said: "A Shamlah." She said: "O Messenger of Allāh, I have woven this with my own hands for you to wear." The Messenger of Allāh ﷺ took it, since he needed it. He came out to us wearing it as a lower wrap. So-and-so the son of so-and-so" - a man whose name he told that day - said: "O Messenger of Allāh, how beautiful this sheet is! Let me wear it." He said: "Yes." When he went inside he folded it up and sent it to him. The people said to him: "By Allāh, you have not done well. The Prophet ﷺ wore it because he needed it, then you asked for it, and you knew that he would not refuse anyone who asked him for something." He said: "By Allāh, I did not ask for it so that I could wear it, rather I
[1] Either because he would give it to someone else without storing it, or it means that he would serve his noble self, not entrusting that to anyone else. (Intjāhul-Hājjah by Abdul-Ghani Dehlavi) Sindi said: "He did not have two garments so that he wore one, and folded up others until a time of need."
[2] That is the narrator, Abu Hāzim, said this to Sahl.
asked for it so that it could be my shroud." Sahl said: "And it became his shroud the day he died." (Sahih)
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a. Anything that has ever touched the sacred body of the Prophet ﷺ, having it or using it for blessings is allowed, provided it is proved without any doubt.
b. The good predecessors did not keep anything that was related to the Companions of the Prophet ﷺ or their followers for the purpose of getting blessings. Affiliation of the most things that are ascribed to the Companions of the Prophet ﷺ is not correct.
