We descended with the Messenger of Allah ﷺ from a mountain pass, and he turned to me. I was wearing a wrap dyed with safflower. He asked, "What is this wrap you have on?"I understood that he disliked it, so I went to my family, who were heating up an oven of theirs, and I threw it into the fire.I came to him the next day, and he said, "Abdullah, what did you do with the wrap?"I told him what had happened.He said, "Why did you not give it to one of the women of your family to wear? There is no harm in it for women."
هبطنا مع رسول الله ﷺ من ثنية، فالتفت إلي، وعلي ربطة مضرجة بالعصفر، فقال: ما هذه الريطة عليك؟ فعرفت ما كره، فأتيت أهلي، وهم يسجرون تنورا لهم، فقذفتها فيه، ثم أتيته من الغد، فقال: يا عبد الله، ما فعلت الريطة؟ فأخبرته، فقال: ألا كسوتها بعض أهلك، فإنه لا بأس به للنساء.
Abu Dawud (4066), Ibn Majah (3603), and Ahmad (6852) all narrated it through the hadith of Hisham bin Ghaz, who said, "Amr bin Shuayb narrated to me, from his father, from his grandfather," and he related it. Its isnad is hasan on account of Amr bin Shuayb.Hakim (4/190) narrated it from Ata bin Abu Rabah, from Amr bin Shuayb, from his father, from Abdullah bin Amr bin As, who said,"One day I came in to see the Messenger of Allah ﷺ while I was wearing two safflower-dyed garments. The Messenger of Allah ﷺ asked me, 'What are these two garments?' I said, 'The mother of Abdullah dyed them for me.' The Messenger of Allah ﷺ said, 'I urge you, when you go back to the mother of Abdullah, to order her to light the oven and then throw them into it.' So I went back to her and did as he said."Hakim said, "This is a hadith with a sahih isnad, though the two of them did not include it. The two Shaykhs agreed on the prohibition of a man wearing safflower-dyed clothing based on the hadith of Ali, in which he said, 'The Prophet ﷺ forbade me,' and did not say, 'he forbade you.'"Regarding his saying "mudarrajah," Hisham bin Ghaz said, "It is that which is neither fully saturated with dye nor rose-colored." Abu Dawud mentioned this.Khattabi said, "Mudarraj is that whose dye is not the ordinary saturating kind, but rather a smear that clings to it. It is said, 'the garment became mudarraj,' when it is smeared with blood or the like."Regarding his saying "rubtah," it is a wrap that is not made of two stitched pieces, but rather a single weave. End of quote.Others said, "I 'darajtu' the garment," meaning I dyed it with a reddish color, which is less than fully saturated but more than rose-colored.