رياض الصالحين
Riyad as-Salihin Hadith 778
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Chapter 1
Chapter context: The Excellence of Wearing White Clothes and the Permissibility of Wearing Red, Green, Yellow and Black Clothes Made from Cotton and Linen but not Silk
- باب استحباب الثوب الأبيض وجواز الأحمر والأخضر والأصفر والأسود وجوازه من قطن وكتان وشعر وصوف وغيرها إلا الحرير
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Original Arabic
وعن ابن عباس رضى الله عنهما أن رسول الله صلى الله عليه وسلم قال: إلبسوا من ثيابكم البياض؛ فإنها من خير ثيابكم، وكفنوا فيها موتاكم".((رواه أبو داود والترمذي))
Translation
English translation
Ibn 'Abbas (May Allah be pleased with them) reported:
I heard the Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) saying, "Put on white clothes because they are the best; and use them for shrouding your dead." [Abu Dawud and At- Tirmidhi].
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This is Hadith 778 in Riyad as-Salihin. It appears in Book 4, The Book of Dress, as in-book entry 1 under the chapter “The Excellence of Wearing White Clothes and the Permissibility of Wearing Red, Green, Yellow and Black Clothes Made from Cotton and Linen but not Silk.”
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