The Ruling on Letting Garments Trail on the Ground

The questioner:
A second question asks: Is letting garments trail on the ground forbidden or disliked? Is there a hadith that forbids letting garments trail, or a Qur'anic verse that prohibits it?

The Shaykh:
The practice of letting garments trail is forbidden and an abomination, and it is a form of arrogance. Therefore, Allah the Exalted said: "And do not forget My favor to you." And the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) said: Letting garments trail is one of the causes of arrogance and one of the causes of pride. In most cases, it does not occur except for that reason. It is absolutely forbidden because it is arrogance and pride, and because it is a means to that, even if one assumes that a person is not arrogant. 'Umar ibn al-Khattab has a narration in the authentic hadith: in the authentic collection, and he did not say "if he is arrogant."
And because of his saying (peace and blessings be upon him) in another hadith: It was reported by the people of the Sunan from the hadith of Jabir ibn Samura with a good chain of narration.
And because of his saying (peace and blessings be upon him): "Three people will not be spoken to by Allah on the Day of Resurrection, nor will He purify them, and they will have a painful punishment: the one who lets his garment hang below his ankles, the one who swears falsely about what he has given, and the one who sells goods with a false oath." Narrated by Muslim.
He did not condition it on arrogance, so the forbidden act is a means to arrogance, and it is the norm that its practitioners also intend that. The one who swears falsely was narrated by Muslim, and he did not condition it on arrogance, so it is forbidden as a means to arrogance, and it is the norm that its practitioners also intend that. Doing this is attributed to arrogance, even if he claims he did not intend it. No one knows the hearts except Allah (Glorified and Exalted is He). This is an ugly and abominable appearance that must be forbidden. As for what came in the hadith that when the Messenger (peace and blessings be upon him) forbade letting garments trail, Abu al-Dhahak said, "My garment hangs loosely on me," he said: There, this is in the category of clarifying that if a person's garment hangs loosely on him and his lower garment slips down, and he did not intend arrogance from that, but rather he noticed it and made a habit of checking it so that it does not slip down, that does not harm him because he checks it. But these people intentionally drag it and do not care. So whoever says of them that they are arrogant, and even if they said, "We only intended not to," they would not be believed in that, because the appearance is an appearance of arrogance and an appearance of cowardice. And because it is a means to its impurity, its destruction, and its loss. The Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) forbade the waste of wealth and everything that leads to impurity and falling into it. So the point is that this appearance is an abominable appearance. And whoever says it is disliked has erred; the correct ruling is that it is forbidden and an abomination. Yes.

The presenter:
A cause of the rain.

The Shaykh:
'Umar saw a young man whose garment was touching the ground while he was being stabbed near the end of his life. He called him and said: "O my son, why do you not raise your garment? It is more pleasing to your Lord and cleaner for your garment."

The presenter:
May Allah reward you,