Using [silk] as a pillow and sleeping on it is lawful for them both—unlike a blanket.
Section — Wearing silk and qazz is permissible for women, not for men, even if they are fighters, except for a silk emblem or fabric woven with gold to the breadth of four fingers
Using [silk] as a pillow and sleeping on it is lawful for them both—unlike a blanket.
Hanging a curtain on the door for need is lawful.
Silk brocade belts (tikkah) of silk and dibāj and their pouches are unlawful.
Wearing what has silk as warp is lawful without restriction; what has silk as weft is lawful in war only.
Nothing of gold is lawful for men.
For them from silver are lawful: the ring, the belt buckle and sword ornaments.
Wearing a ring of stone, iron or brass is unlawful for men and women; what counts is the band, so the bezel may be stone. The man should turn the bezel towards the inside of his palm.
It is better for one who is not a judge or ruler and does not need a seal to leave it off, and its weight should not exceed one mithqāl.
A loose tooth should not be bound with gold but with silver; if one’s nose is cut off or a tooth falls out it is replaced with silver; if it putrefies it is replaced with gold.
Dressing boys in gold and silk is unlawful; the sin lies on the one who clothes them.
Carrying a handkerchief out of arrogance is unlawful; wiping sweat, moisture of ablution and mucus and the like is lawful; crossing the legs is lawful for need and unlawful out of arrogance.
Tying the ratīmah (forelock loop) is lawful.
Looking at other than the face and hands of an unrelated free woman is unlawful; there are two reports about the foot. If he fears desire he should not look at the face either except for need; likewise if in doubt.
A young man may not touch her face and hands even if safe from desire, except an old woman who is not desired—then handshaking and the like are lawful; likewise if he is an elder and safe on his and her account; if he fears for her it is forbidden.
Touching a small girl who is not [of an age] to be desired is lawful.
The judge may look when giving judgement, the witness when testifying specifically, and the suitor may look with fear of desire—but he must intend thereby judgement, testimony and upholding the Sunna as far as possible, not satisfying desire.
The physician may look at the site of her illness if he cannot instruct a woman; then he covers what lies beyond the site of illness, looks and lowers his gaze as much as possible; likewise the midwife, circumciser and one giving enema.
A man may look at another man’s whole body except his ʿawrah (nakedness), and may touch what he may look at.
A woman may look at a woman to the extent a man may look at a man.
He may look at his female slave who is lawful to him and his wife at their whole bodies.
He may look at his unmarriageable kin at what is beyond the belly, the back and the thigh.
The unmarriageable kin (maḥram): everyone with whom her marriage is permanently forbidden by blood, breastfeeding or affinity—even if through fornication.
Touching in that case too [is allowed]; if he fears for himself or her he should neither look nor touch. There is no harm in privacy with her or travelling with her.
He may look at another’s slave girl when safe from desire to what he may look at of unmarriageable kin—even if she is a mother of his child, mukātabah, mudabbirah or mustasʿāh; there are two opinions on privacy and travel with her. Touching that at the time of purchase is lawful even if he fears desire; it was said looking at purchase time with fear of desire is lawful, touching is not lawful with that.
The castrated, the severed and the effeminate are like an able man in the ruling of looking and touching.
The slave is like a stranger in viewing his mistress, and he may enter upon her without permission.
He may practise coitus interruptus with his slave girl without her permission, with his free wife with her permission, and with his slave wife with her owner’s permission.
Kissing a man on the mouth and embracing him tightly are disliked; there is no harm in shaking hands; it was said there is no harm in those two as well if he intends courtesy and honour.
There is no harm in kissing the hand of a scholar or a just ruler.