An inquiry into whether the round and the long cap are sunna, with the fatwas of Dar al-‘Ulum and Mazahir al-‘Ulum

Question

Question: In our West Bengal a handbill has been printed about the cap, in which requests for fatwas (istifta’) were made from all places, and all those fatwas have been collected in it. In it the respected Mufti Abu Zafar Furwardi (?) (Mufti of Bengal and Assam) gave this fatwa: “Answer: In al-Mawahib al-Ladunniyya, Tuhfat al-Ahwadhi fi Sharh al-Tirmidhi and the Mishkat it is stated that the Prophet ﷺ and the noble Companions wore round caps.

Answer

In the texts from the Mishkat and the Mirqat that have been copied with reference to the handbill, there is no explicit mention of a round cap; it is only stated that the caps of the noble Companions ﵃ clung to the head and did not rise upward or stand high: [ar]مسبوطة على رؤوسهم ولازقة مع رؤوسهم غير مرتفعة[/ar] “spread flat on their heads and clinging to their heads, not…

Source: Fatawa Mahmudiyya

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