رياض الصالحين
Riyad as-Salihin Hadith 779
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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 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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