Dress of the Arabs at the time of Allah's Messenger [before Islam - 6th century CE.]

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Dress of the Arabs at the time of Allah's Messenger [before Islam].

Dress of Arab men, fourth to sixth century.

link; http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikiped...uth_sixth.jpg/200px-PLATE8DX_foruth_sixth.jpg

http://i256.photobucket.com/albums/hh162/speed2kx/200px-PLATE8DX_foruth_sixth.jpg



Allah's Messenger was born in 570CE [the 6th century CE.] These were the clothes of the arabs at that time.

Dress of Arab women, fourth to sixth century.

link; http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/93/PLATE8CX.jpg/200px-PLATE8CX.jpg

http://i256.photobucket.com/albums/hh162/speed2kx/200px-PLATE8CX.jpg

 

[Danah]

people in the Arabian Gulf region are still wear somehow similar kind of clothes but in white colors -in most cases-....not exactly the same but white long dresses for the men with covering their head by what we call (ghautra)
something like this: http://abuhaleeqa.net/m_s_data/data/images/bisht-01.jpg

women also are still wear those kinds of colored long dresses with covering their hair....but they only change the way they wear the scarf than the way in the picture
its all about how they design the new version of dresses, but alhumdulilah they still preserve that habit.

jazak allah khair for sharing

 

[Fishman]

The Prophet (peace be upon him) himself wore a long shirt like a kurta or a jubba, an izar-type cloth around his legs, a turban and a type of large cloak or shawl. Today all of these except the kurta/jubba have been left by the Arabs and most other Muslims. People say, 'oh, you shouldn't have western dress, that's a modern invention', when actually most 'Islamic dress' is also a modern invention.

 

[جوري]

curious.. I was under the impression.. pre Islam, they ran around naked...
they seem to sport colored hooded cloaks -- where did the artist get the impression that is what they wore? I'd be very interested in seeing actual clothing articles dating back to that time...

Thanks for the thread

 

[Malaikah]

What on earth made you think they ran around naked?

Although men did do tawaaf around the Kabaa naked.ffended:+o(

 

[crayon]

^^ Pretty sure it was both men and women that did tawaf nude..

 

[aadil77]

what about the arabs current dress? you know those black donuts they have on top of their heads with those red patchy cloths, when did they come about?

 

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The pictures are based on evidences from the texts, like theres a hadith in Musnad Ahmad where 'Umar ibn Al Khattaab explains the dress of the arab women before Islam - i.e. they wore loose headdresses but loosely and theres a hadith (in Abu Dawud) in which Allah's Messenger disapproved of what Asmaa' bint Abi Bakr wore (she wore a thin dress) [probably before the hijab verses?], and the womenfolk before Islam mixed with men. I think i heard they used to stamp their feet while their ankles had bangles on too to attract attention. All this was before Islam. So there is info mentioned even in Islamic texts. And like bro fishman said about the izaar thing, that was the arab dress until later when the white jubbah we see today was replaced, and this dress style came from the Africans (can't remember which country specifically.)

White is encouraged because Allah's Messenger (sal Allah alaihi wasalam) encouraged us to wear white and to bury our dead in white.


The people used to walk around al Ka'bah naked because the Quraysh [when they were idolators] said the non-Qurayshis were not nobely pure. So these people had to either buy some clothes from the Quraysh to do tawaaf around al-Ka'bah, or they could do tawaaf with their own clothes on but then had to throw them away after the tawaaf, or they could do it naked. Since cloth was expensive, its obvious that people never wanted to waste it. So many walked around the Ka'bah naked.

All this got cancelled when Abu Bakr was told by Allah's Messenger to stop the people from doing this. I think it was 1 year before Allah's Messenger did the farewell pilgrimage.


Narrated Abu Huraira: On the Day of Nahr (10th of Dhul-Hijja, in the year prior to the last Hajj of the Prophet when Abu Bakr was the leader of the pilgrims in that Hajj) Abu Bakr sent me along with other announcers to Mina to make a public announcement: "No pagan is allowed to perform Hajj after this year and no naked person is allowed to perform the Tawaf around the Ka'ba. Then Allah's Apostle sent 'All to read out the Surat Bara'a (At-Tauba) to the people; so he made the announcement along with us on the day of Nahr in Mina: "No pagan is allowed to perform Hajj after this year and no naked person is allowed to perform the Tawaf around the Ka'ba." (Bukhari Book #8, Hadith #365)

 

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This is a clear proof that Makkah was not a simple tiny town because we know that Allah calls it the Mother of towns in the Qur'an. [Quran Al-Shura 42:7]


Now if Makkah was a poor area where people just live in mud houses, just look at the amount of wealth that was carried in the caravan of Abu Sufyan (which partially was the cause for the battle of Badr):

The Prophet [pbuh] despatched Talhah bin ‘Ubaidullâh and Sa‘id bin Zaid northward to scout around for any movements of this sort. The two scouts stayed at Al-Hawra’ for some days until Abu Sufyan, the leader of the caravan, passed by them. The two men hurried back to Madinah and reported to the Prophet [pbuh] their findings.

Great wealth amounting to 50 thousand gold Dinars guarded by 40 men moving relatively close to Madinah constituted a tempting target for the Muslim military, and provided a potentially heavy economic, political and military strike that was bound to shake the entire structure of the Makkan polytheists.

Ar-Raheeq Al-Makhtum - (THE SEALED NECTAR). by Saifur Rahman al-Mubarakpuri. Chapter on the Battle of Badr.
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http://www.witness-pioneer.org/vil/Books/SM_tsn/ch4s5.html

http://www.rasoulallah.net/subject_en.asp?hit=1&parent_id=161&sub_id=1839



That's alot of gold. If they're trading with that much wealth, its likely that theres alot of people spending money to buy, aswell as buying alot of different things.