, Naʿl Rasūl Allāh (a.), the sandal of the Prophet Muḥammad.
Sandals belong to the pre-Islamic Arabian clothing (see libās . 1), and are considered one of the features distinguishing Arabs from non-Arabs ( ʿad̲j̲am ). The scholar Mālik b. Anas (d. 180/796 [q.v.]) reportedly declared that only Arabs used to wear turbans and sandals (Ibn Abī Zayd, al-Ḏj̲āmiʿ fi ’l-sunan wa ’l-ādāb wa ’l-mag̲h̲āzī wa ’l-taʾrīk̲h̲ , Tunis 1982, 228). The Prophet himself reportedly advised the believers to wear sandals as well as boots to distinguish themselves from the People of t…