Ruling on Wearing other than Black and White Hijab

It is not a must for Muslim women to wear only black and white hijab. Rather, it is permissible for them to wear any colour of hijab so long as it covers their awrah, not so thin or delicate as to display the body’s form or skin colour underneath it or tight-fitting such that it shows the shape and size of the limbs or decorated and adorned in such a way that it charms and attracts men’s attention to the woman wearing it.

There are authentic narrations from the female Companions, which indicates that it is permissible to wear other than black and white hijab as recorded by al-Haafidh Ibn Abee Shaybah in al-Musannaf (8/371-372):

1. Ibraaheem an-Nakha’ee reported that he, ‘Alqamah and al-Aswad entered upon the wives of the Prophet (sallallaahu alayhi wa sallam) and saw them in red coverings (that is, hijab).

2. Ibn Abee Mulaykah narrated: I saw Umm Salamah putting on a garment and a covering dyed with ‘usfur [(safflower) - the red dyestuff obtained from safflowers].

3. Al-Qaasim and he is Ibn Muhammad bin Abee Bakr as-Siddeeq related that Aa’ishah used to wear garment dyed with ‘usfur while she was in the state of ihram.

4. Hishaam narrated on the authority of Faatimah bin al-Mundhir that Asmaa’ used to wear garment dyed with safflower while she was in the state of ihram.

5. Sa’eed bin Jubayr related that he saw some of the wives of the Prophet (sallallaahu alayhi wa sallam) performing tawaaf of the House while they were wearing clothing dyed with safflower.

See: Jilbaab al-Mar’ah al-Muslimah fil-Kitaab was-Sunnah, p.122-123 by Shaykh al-Albaanee (may Allaah have mercy on him)