Tamattu: why it is called tamattu

Ata said: It was named tamattu' (enjoyment) because in it people benefit from women and clothes.

Abdullah bin Uthman narrates from a man who said: I saw Shaybah picking up the cloth of the Ka'bah's covering that had fallen down and distributing it among the poor.

Sufyan said: There is no harm in buying it from the poor, once he has given it to them.