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Prohibition Of Red Colour
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Did Prophet SAW forbade red colour? In few Ahadeeth we get that.
https://www.google.com/amp/s/islamqa.info/amp/en/answers/8341
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Prohibition Of Red Colour
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There no such absolute prohibition.
As far as Ahadith on wearing red colour are concerned, there are many narrations in which Prophet (sws) was himself seen wearing red colour and then there are some in which people narrate its prohibition from the Prophet (sws). Therefore, from hadith corpus nothing can be said conclusively.
Secondly, as a principle, not every hadith falls within scope of religion. After study of the whole religion and its sources, it can be said that only things that can be religion belong to the following category:
1) They must relate to ibadah
2) Must relate to purity/tazkiya of body
3) Must relate to purity/tazkiya of food
4) Must relate to purity/tazkiya of soul (ikhlaqi tazkiya)
Lastly, the principles of determining haram/halal (other than dietary restrictions) have been laid out explicitly in the Quran itself (7:33). Therefore, all these kind of prohibitions that we find in ahadith relating to men wearing gold,silk, isbal izar (hanging of trouser below ankles) etc. are all practical applications of the laid out principle mentioned in Quran. The same would be the case for red or other colours, if any such prohibition ever occurred (regarding which ahadith have a lot of contradictions).
The Principles of halal/haram as mentioned in Quran can be read here with details:
For details on How to approach Hadith Corpus, please see:
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But in the link i have sent,he tried to reconcile these two and to conclude pure red is haraam(or forbidden by Prophet SAW in Hadith)and if it’s mixed with some other color than it’s ok.Is this reconciliation ok?
And in the mentioned link he didn’t tell the reason that why Prophet SAW didn’t allow it,so if there is some specific context regarding this?
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How can wearing red be Haram when there’s no explicit basis in Quran and Sunnah for its absolute prohibition. It can be said that it was a matter of application in accordance with Quran whose explicit details are missing in the Hadith Corpus.
While studying Hadith Corpus, it can be seen that wearing red was prohibited along with Gold ring and silk which points toward the fact that such a prohibition had to do with censuring arrogance or something similar, just the way it was done for weraing gold and silk for men:
https://sunnah.com/bukhari:5838
And also the narrations in support of wearing red are more clear and more stronger.
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But they say, what Prophet SAW used to wear it was red hullah, which is not pure red but had black or green stripes on it.
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It is their way of reconciling these conflicting narrations and as a result, they end up declaring red colour as Haram, which based on Quran, Sunnah and other narrations, seems like a transgression in religion.
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Good point
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