What is the ruling on wearing a wristwatch made of iron, and does the saying of the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him)

The questioner : We had a question from your first trip, and now we have remembered it, and the answer was cut off, I think by a call that was completely disconnected, which was about wearing the watch. We mentioned to you a hadith that it is the adornment of the people of the Fire, so you stopped at the hadith, and the interruption came in this answer. What do you think about this?

The Shaykh : What is it?

The questioner : So what do you think about wearing the wristwatch?

The Shaykh : I understand, I will explain the word. What do you say?

The questioner : The watch...

The Shaykh : What is the watch, before the watch.

The questioner : The hadith, we deduced from it...

The Shaykh : One word in your speech confused me.

The questioner : The adornment of the people of the Fire.

The Shaykh : My brother, before the watch, there is a word.

The questioner : I said wearing the watch.

The Shaykh : Yes, it is the word wearing the watch. So what is the problem with it?

The questioner : What do you think about it? And this evidence that is before us?

The Shaykh : And what is it?

The questioner When he said (peace and blessings be upon him).

The Shaykh : What is the adornment of the people of the Fire?

The questioner : The hadith.

The Shaykh : My brother, do you remember it?

The questioner : I do not remember it in its exact text right now.

The Shaykh : And what am I answering you about?

The questioner : You remember it more than I do, O Shaykh.

The Shaykh: No.

The questioner : The hadith says: , when a man came to the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) and saw the Messenger with an iron ring in his hand.

The Shaykh : And why do you say you do not remember when you are the one remembering?

The questioner : By meaning, so that we do not distort the hadith of the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him).

The Shaykh : No problem, if you come to us with the meaning, like I come to you with the meaning, may Allah reward you with good. As for the wording, we are not obligated to it. The meaning is sufficient for you. So what is the meaning?

The questioner : The meaning is that he came, and he said (peace and blessings be upon him)...

The Shaykh : The man came

The questioner : The man came and he had an iron ring in his hand, so he said: , or as he (peace be upon him) said. And is the watch not iron by analogy to that?

The Shaykh : This is iron. Is this a ring?

The questioner : And is it specific to the ring only?

The Shaykh : And is it general?

The questioner : Because it is adornment.

The Shaykh : What is adornment? What is the adornment?

The questioner : It is also called adornment.

The Shaykh : The hadith, my brother, says ring.

The questioner : Does he mean the ring only?

The Shaykh : Or? He said every adornment of iron, it is the adornment of the people of the Fire. Did he give you this generality? Or is he talking about the iron ring? Is there not also iron like this, if it is made of copper? Or of brass? Do you know this?

The questioner: Yes.

The Shaykh : So, is brass, meaning copper, also not permissible? If we change it to a copper chain, is it also not permissible? So what is permissible? You have forbidden gold for us, and brass likewise, and iron likewise. What is left?

The questioner : Plastic is left.

The Shaykh : Plastic -laughsThe Shaykh : (may Allah have mercy on him) and others are not permissible?

The questioner : Because he said adornment, and we go to the meaning of the hadith, not just the ring. Anything you adorn yourself with, and we see in our time that it is adornment, due to the difference in its manufacture and decoration.

The Shaykh : May Allah guide you.

The questioner : Amen.
The Shaykh: You have taken our places and we have taken yours. -laughs (may Allah have mercy on him) - The Arab does not understand this generality. This is the adornment of the people of the Fire. This iron ring is the adornment of the people of the Fire. The Arab does not understand that every iron that is adornment is the adornment of the people of the Fire. This is a report about the reality of the people of the Fire. This iron ring is the adornment of the people of the Fire. Where do you widen the tear for the mender? Where do you take this generality from? Just because of the shared meaning of adornment? Glory be to Allah, then do not wear anything nice and beautiful; because it shares with that hadith, whether it is iron, or plastic, or anything, because it shares in the meaning of what? Adornment. The Arab does not understand this meaning at all. , We believe, O Messenger of Allah, and we disbelieve the one who said, and likewise every adornment of iron. We are disbelievers with this statement, and believers in the saying of the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him): ; therefore we do not permit the gold ring, nor the iron ring, nor the brass ring, and we permit the platinum ring, and we permit the ring of precious gems, even though they are more expensive than gold, and perhaps than platinum.

The questioner : And silver?

The Shaykh : Silver is even more so, it is explicitly mentioned. So this is the answer to what you asked.