Muwatta Malik #1792
Dress
The Arabic includes the chain of narration (sanad) and the collector's commentary; the English translation shows the Prophet's words only.
وَحَدَّثَنِي عَنْ مَالِكٍ، عَنْ عَمِّهِ أَبِي سُهَيْلِ بْنِ مَالِكٍ، عَنْ أَبِيهِ، عَنْ كَعْبِ الأَحْبَارِ، أَنَّ رَجُلاً، نَزَعَ نَعْلَيْهِ فَقَالَ لِمَ خَلَعْتَ نَعْلَيْكَ لَعَلَّكَ تَأَوَّلْتَ هَذِهِ الآيَةَ {فَاخْلَعْ نَعْلَيْكَ إِنَّكَ بِالْوَادِي الْمُقَدَّسِ طُوًى} قَالَ ثُمَّ قَالَ كَعْبٌ لِلرَّجُلِ أَتَدْرِي مَا كَانَتْ نَعْلاَ مُوسَى قَالَ مَالِكٌ لاَ أَدْرِي مَا أَجَابَهُ الرَّجُلُ فَقَالَ كَعْبٌ كَانَتَا مِنْ جِلْدِ حِمَارٍ مَيِّتٍ .
Yahya related to me from Malik from his paternal uncle Abu Suhayl
ibn Malik from his father that Kab al-Ahbar said to a man who took off
his sandals, "Why have you taken off your sandals? Perhaps you have
interpreted this ayat, 'Remove your sandals. You are in the pure
valley of Tuwa?' (Sura 20 ayat 12) Do you know what the sandals of
Musa were?"
Malik (the father of Abu Suhayl) said, "I do not
know what the man answered." Kab said, "They were made from the skin
of a dead donkey."
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This hadith is #1792 from Muwatta Malik, in the Book of Dress.