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and peace be upon him, answered: “I clothed someone with it.” Then she said: “I
never saw anything, which was more becoming than your whiteness against its
blackness.”

Anas ibn Malik said: “I sometimes saw him lead us in prayer, his back (was) in a
cloak the two ends of, which he tied in a knot.” He used to wear a ring on his
finger, and sometimes he went out with a string tied to his ring, thereby to remind
himself of things. The Prophet, praise and peace be upon him, used to put a seal
on letters saying: “A seal on a letter is better than suspicion.” He used to wear
the cap (qalanis) beneath his turban (imama) and without a turban. He
sometimes removed his cap from his head and making it a covering before him
prayed towards it. At times, when he had no turban, he tied a black kerchief over


his head forehead. The Prophet, praise and peace be upon him had a turban
called al-Sahab (the cloud), which he received from Ali. At times Ali went out
wearing it, and the Prophet, praise and peace be upon him said: “Ali comes to
you in a cloud.”