وَجَعَلْنَا ٱلَّيْلَ لِبَاسًۭا
Waja'alnal laila libasa
And made the night as clothing
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Signs in creation
78:10Ayah 140
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and made the night a cloak? to cover you with its darkness
Related Hadiths
"of cotton".
The narrator said: Aisha was told that the people said that he was shrouded in two garments and one cloak. She replied: A cloak was brought but they returned it and did not shroud him in it.
The Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) went out one morning wearing a variegated garment of black goat hair.
Narrated Utbah ibn AbdusSulami:
I asked the Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) to clothe me. He clothed me with two coarse clothes of linen.
A'isha reported that Allah's Apostle (ﷺ) went out one morning wearing a blanket made of (camel's or sheep's) black hair with patterns of camel saddles upon it.
The Prophet (ﷺ) prayed in one garment and crossed its ends.
`Aisha brought out to us a patched wool Len garment, and she said, "(It chanced that) the soul of
Allah's Messenger (ﷺ) was taken away while he was wearing this." Abu-Burda added, "Aisha brought out to
us a thick waist sheet like the ones made by the Yemenites, and also a garment of the type called Al-
Mulabbada."
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