I was sitting with my father when Ali came in. He stood before us, greeted us, then instructed Abu Musa about various matters concerning the people.Then Ali said, "The Messenger of Allah ﷺ said to me, 'Ask Allah for guidance,' and by that he meant guidance along the path, 'and ask Allah for soundness,' and by that he meant the straight aim of your arrow. And the Messenger of Allah ﷺ forbade me from placing my ring on this finger or this one," meaning the index finger and the middle finger.The narrator said, He was standing, so I do not know on which of the two he indicated.Ali continued, "And the Messenger of Allah ﷺ forbade me from the mithara and the qassiyya."We said to him, "Commander of the Believers, what is the mithara?"He replied, "Something women make for their husbands to place upon their saddles."We said, "And what is the qassiyya?"He answered, "Garments that come to us from the direction of Syria, striped, with patterns resembling citrons."Abu Burda said, When I saw the sabani cloth, I recognized that it was the same thing.
حدثنا علي بن عاصم أخبرنا عاصم بن كليب الجرمى
كنت جالسا مع أبي فجاء علي فقام علينا فسلم ثم أمر أبا موسى بأمور من أمور الناس قال ثم قال علي رضي الله عنه قال لي رسول الله ﷺ سل الله الهدى وأنت تعني بذلك هداية الطريق واسأل الله السداد وأنت تعني بذلك تسديدك السهم ونهاني رسول الله ﷺ أن أجعل خاتمي في هذه أو هذه السبابة والوسطى قال فكان قائما فما أدري في أيتهما قال ونهاني رسول الله ﷺ عن الميثرة وعن القسية قلنا له يا أمير المؤمنين وأي شيء الميثرة قال شيء يصنعه النساء لبعولتهن على رحالهن قال قلنا وما القسية قال ثياب تأتينا من قبل الشام مضلعة فيها أمثال الأترج قال قال أبو بردة فلما رأيت السبني عرفت أنها هي
Its isnad is sahih. Abu Burda bin Abu Musa narrates from Ali, and from his father from Ali, and here he explicitly states that he was present, yet some portions of this hadith have already passed from him from his father from Ali (586, 664), and some from him from Ali without an intermediary (863, 1019). See also 1113.Sabani, with fatha on the sin and the ba, kasra on the nun, and ending with a doubled ya, it says in Nihaya, Sabaniyyah is a type of cloth made from the coarse fiber of flax, named after a place in the region of Maghrib called Saban. See Mujam al-Buldan 5:31.