Garment below the ankles

Yahya related to me from Malik from al Ala ibn Abd ar-Rahman that his father said, “I asked Abu Said al-Khudri about the lower garment. He said that he would inform me with knowledge and that he had heard the Messenger of Allah, may Allah bless him and grant him peace, say, ‘The lower garment of the mumin should reach to the middle of his calves. There is no harm in what is between that and the ankles. What is lower than that is in the Fire. On the Day of Rising, Allah will not look at a person who trails his lower garment in arrogance.’ “
Al-Muwatta 48.12, Similar narration in Abu Dawood #4082


The Prophet (saaws) said, “The part of an Izar which hangs below the ankles is in the Fire.”
Sahih Al-Bukhari 7.678, Narrated Abu Huraira, r.a.


The Prophet saaws said, “Have your lower garment halfway down your shin; if you cannot do it, have it up to the ankles. Beware of trailing the lower garment, for it is conceit and Allah does not like conceit.”
Sunan of Abu Dawood, Narrated AbuJurayy Jabir ibn Salim al-Hujaymi

Folding up the hem because your garment is too long, is forbidden. Pull the trousers upwards, instead. (hint: hard to do if your pants are too tight to start with!)


I happened to pass before Allah’s Messenger (peace be upon him) with my lower garment trailing (upon the ground). He said: Abdullah, tug up your lower garment. I tugged it up, and he again said: Tug it still further, and I tugged it still further and I went on tugging it afterward, whereupon some of the people said: To what extent? Thereupon he said: To the middle of the shanks*.
Sahih Muslim #5200, Narrated Abdullah ibn Umar, r.a.

*The part of the leg between the knee and ankle.