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Tashmir (tucking up one's garments)

التشمير

Tashmir is lifting a garment or its hem. Related terms: sadl, letting a cloth hang over the shoulders without closing its sides, which is disliked in prayer by agreement; and isbal, letting a garment trail to the ground out of pride, which is disliked and carries the warnings in the hadiths. Tucking up in prayer is disliked by agreement, on the prohibition of tucking garments and hair; the Malikis dislike it in prayer only when done for the prayer, and tucking up the hem for a task that happens to be unfinished when prayer comes is not disliked. 1 2 3

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Tashmir is lifting a garment or its hem; it is disliked in prayer by agreement. 1

Definition and related terms

In the lexicon tashmir means lifting: one rolls up a loincloth or garment. 1 Sadl is letting a garment hang without closing its sides, or laying it over the head or shoulders and letting its ends fall; it is disliked in prayer by agreement, on the hadith of Abu Hurayra (may God be pleased with him) forbidding it. 2 Isbal is letting a garment trail to the ground out of pride; it is disliked, on the hadith that God does not look at one who trails his garment in conceit. 2 The sound hadiths also carry a warning against the one who trails, the one who reminds of his gifts, and the one who sells by a false oath. 2

The ruling in prayer

Tucking up in prayer is disliked by agreement, on the prohibition of tucking up garments and hair. 3 The Malikis dislike it in prayer only when it is done for the prayer; doing it outside prayer, or in prayer without that aim, is not disliked. 3 For them, lifting the hem from the shin for a task that is unfinished when prayer comes is not disliked; the Mudawwana seems to allow it whether or not he returns to the task, while al-Shabibi restricted it to the case of returning to the task. 3

People and things also explored

The turban (amama): its forms, wiping over it, and its rules in prayer and ihram· Awra (intimate parts)· Hair, wool and fur (their purity, the rules for the dead, washing, adornment and sale)· The bandage or turban and wiping over it (isaba)· The ruling on one who abandons prayer· Ada' (performance of an obligation within its time)· Adhan (the call to prayer: its ruling, wording, conditions, recommended features and the muezzin)· Bone (adhm): purity, use and retaliation

Sources

  1. al-Mawsu'a al-Fiqhiyya al-Kuwaitiyya, Noor-Book copy (file named v3) , p.5196
  2. al-Mawsu'a al-Fiqhiyya al-Kuwaitiyya, Noor-Book copy (file named v3) , p.5197
  3. al-Mawsu'a al-Fiqhiyya al-Kuwaitiyya, Noor-Book copy (file named v3) , p.5198
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The turban (amama): its forms, wiping over it, and its rules in prayer and ihram

In the lexicon, 'amama is a cloth wound round the head, and its plural is 'amai'im; it is related to the tail, the headband, the bandage, the veil and the cap. Its styles include wrapping the head with the end let fall on the back, and i'tijar, wrapping without tucking the end under the chin, and the end let fall from both sides of the head. The turbans of the Prophet are described as black, with the end let fall between the shoulders, and he is reported to have worn a Qatari cloth. Protected non-Muslims were distinguished by colours and by wearing the turban without tucking it under the chin. Prostration on the fold of the turban is disliked by most jurists unless there is an excuse, and the Shafi'is require the forehead to be bare. Wiping over the turban in ablution is refused by the Hanafis, allowed by the Malikis where removal would harm, and allowed by the Shafi'is and Hanbalis. A shirt and a turban in a shroud are recommended by Abu Hanifa and Malik and not by al-Shafi'i and Ahmad. A turban is forbidden to one in the state of ihram, and a restraint may be imposed by removing the turban as a discretionary penalty.