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It Is Makruh To Wear Silk[1]

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Darussalam · Volume 4

32. The Book Of Dress

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الحديث: 3589 ¦ الجزء: 2 ¦ الصفحة: 1187

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3589. It was narrated that Barâ' bin 'Azib said: "The Messenger of Allâh ﷺ forbade brocade, silk, and embroidered brocade." (Sahih)

Arabic text

3589 - حَدَّثَنَا أَبُو بَكْرِ بْنُ أَبِي شَيْبَةَ قَالَ: حَدَّثَنَا عَلِيُّ بْنُ مُسْهِرٍ، عَنِ الشَّيْبَانِيِّ، عَنْ أَشْعَثَ بْنِ أَبِي الشَّعْثَاءِ، عَنْ مُعَاوِيَةَ بْنِ سُوَيْدٍ، عَنِ الْبَرَاءِ قَالَ: «نَهَى رَسُولُ اللَّهِ صَلَّى اللهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ عَنِ الدِّيبَاجِ، وَالْحَرِيرِ، وَالْإِسْتَبْرَقِ»

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    [1] The early scholars used such term to indicate a prohibition, but one that is not as firm as what they would say is prohibited, due to various reasons. This was explained in the translation of Sunan At-Tirmidhi.

Commentary

Silk here means the strings prepared by silkworm. Artificial strings, though they resemble natural silk and are called silk, are not considered pure silk. Dibāj is explained in An-Nihāyah as clothes made of silk. In Munjid it is explained as 'the clothes whose wrap and woof, both are of silk.' Silk is forbidden only for men. (See Hadith: 3595).