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رياض الصالحين

Riyad as-Salihin Hadith 779

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2

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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Hadith text

Original Arabic

وعن سمرة رضى الله عنه قال‏:‏ قال رسول الله صلى الله عليه وسلم ‏:‏‏

‏إلبسوا البياض؛ فإنها أطهر وأطيب، وكفنوا فيها موتاكم‏

‏.‏ ((رواه النسائي والحاكم))

Translation

English translation

Samurah (May Allah be pleased with him) reported:

The Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) said, 'Wear white clothes because they are the purest and they are closest to modesty; and shroud the dead in it." [An- Nasa'i and Al-Hakim].

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This is Hadith 779 in Riyad as-Salihin. It appears in Book 4, The Book of Dress, as in-book entry 2 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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