Sunan Abi Dawud 24709

Abu Quhafah was brought on the day of the conquest of Mecca with head and beard while like hyssop. The Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) said: Change this something, but avoid black.

Sunan Abi Dawud 24710

The Prophet (ﷺ) said: The best things with which grey hair are changed are henna and katam.

Sunan Abi Dawud 24704

The Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) commanded to clip the moustaches and grow the beard long.

Sunan Abi Dawud 24705

The Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) fixed forty days to shave the pubes, paring the nails, clipping the moustaches, and plucking the hair under the armpit. Abu Dawud said: Ja’far b. Sulaiman transmitted it from Abu ‘Imran on the authority of Anas. In this version he did not mention the Prophet (ﷺ). He said: Forty days […]

Sunan Abi Dawud 24706

We used to grow beard long except during the Hajj or ‘Umrah. Abu Dawud said: Istihdad means to shave the pubes.

Sunan Abi Dawud 24707

Do not pluck out grey hair. If any believer grows a grey hair in Islam, he will have light on the Day of Resurrection. (This is Sufyan’s version). Yahya’s version says: Allah will record on his behalf a good deed for it, and will blot out a sin for it.

Sunan Abi Dawud 24708

The Prophet (ﷺ) as saying: Jews and Christians do not dye (their beards), so act differently from them.

Sunan Abi Dawud 24700

The Prophet (ﷺ) saw a boy with part of his head shaved and part left unshaven. He forbade them to do that, saying: Shave it all or leave it all.

Sunan Abi Dawud 24701

I had a hanging lock of hair. My mother said to me: I shall not cut it, for the Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) used to stretch it our and hold it.

Sunan Abi Dawud 24702

Al-Hajjaj ibn Hassan said: We entered upon Anas ibn Malik. My sister al-Mughirah said: You were a boy in those days and you had two locks of hair. He (Anas) rubbed your head and invoked blessing on you. He said: Shave them (i.e. the locks) or clip them, for this is the fashion of the […]