The Shaykh’s note on a benefit regarding adorning oneself for prayer.

The Shaykh : Excuse me, perhaps some of our brothers, as his question reminds me of a fabricated hadith that says, "Umar, when we would sit with the Messenger of Allah and Abu Bakr was beside him, and we would talk to one another, it was as if I were a Negro!" Of course, this is a fabrication attributed to Umar, and praise be to Allah, the difference between Umar and Abu Bakr was not to this degree. So this is from the fabrications of the liars. The point is, there was previous conversation between us, so he is asking me and I am giving him my answer... As forThose present : what they understand by "Negroes," I mentioned earlier a narration that Ibn Umar saw his slave Nafi' praying in a single garment, and so on. Do you remember this? There is another narration in it. Ibn Taymiyyah mentioned it in a nice, beneficial treatise on the clothing of the woman and the man for prayer. The clothing of the woman for prayer. He mentioned there a narration that Ibn Umar saw his slave Nafi' praying with his head uncovered, so he said to him something like what we mentioned earlier, that if you were to go to greet one of these princes or... or to greet him, you would go like this with your head uncovered. He said to him, "No." He said to him, "Allah is more worthy that you adorn yourself for Him." That is, you should cover your head, because this is Islamic etiquette. I have not seen this narration in the books of hadith and athar, so when I mention it, I attribute it to Ibn Taymiyyah. And our brother Abu AbdullahThe questioner : knows this matter. Now, he wants to know if the narration I mentioned is of this type, or if the other narration we just mentioned is of that type. So he now understands that the last narration we mentioned, which we used to cite based on Ibn Taymiyyah, it is possible that he looked into books we did not look into, and every day things are discovered for us that we did not know, in accordance with the saying of Allah the Exalted: As for the narration I mentioned earlier, it is found in some of the well-known books today.