Sunan Abi Dawud
Combing the Hair (Kitab Al-Tarajjul)
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...
Sunan Abi Dawud
Combing the Hair (Kitab Al-Tarajjul)
We used to grow beard long except during the Hajj or 'Umrah. Abu Dawud said: Istihdad means to shave the pubes.
Sunan Abi Dawud
Combing the Hair (Kitab Al-Tarajjul)
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...
Sunan Abi Dawud
Combing the Hair (Kitab Al-Tarajjul)
The Prophet (ﷺ) as saying: Jews and Christians do not dye (their beards), so act differently from them.
Sunan Abi Dawud
Combing the Hair (Kitab Al-Tarajjul)
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
Combing the Hair (Kitab Al-Tarajjul)
The Prophet (ﷺ) said: The best things with which grey hair are changed are henna and katam.
Sunan Abi Dawud
Combing the Hair (Kitab Al-Tarajjul)
I went with my father to the Prophet (ﷺ). He had locks hanging down as far as the lobes of the ears stained with henna, and he was wearing two green garments.
Sunan Abi Dawud
Combing the Hair (Kitab Al-Tarajjul)
My father said to him (the Prophet): Show me what is on your back, for I am a physician. He (the Prophet) said: You are only a soother. Its physician is He Who has created it.
Sunan Abi Dawud
Combing the Hair (Kitab Al-Tarajjul)
I and my father came to the Prophet (ﷺ). He said to a man or to my father: Who is this? He replied: He is my son. He said: Do not commit a crime on him. He had stained his...
Sunan Abi Dawud
Combing the Hair (Kitab Al-Tarajjul)
He did not dye his hair, but Abu Bakr and 'Umar dyed their hair.
Sunan Abi Dawud
Combing the Hair (Kitab Al-Tarajjul)
The Prophet (ﷺ) used to wear tanned leather sandals and dye his beard yellow with wars and saffron, and Ibn 'Umar used to do that too.
Sunan Abi Dawud
Combing the Hair (Kitab Al-Tarajjul)
When a man who had dyed himself with henna passed by the Prophet (ﷺ), he said: How fine this is! When another man who had dyed himself with henna and katam passed by, he said: This is better than that....
Sunan Abi Dawud
Combing the Hair (Kitab Al-Tarajjul)
The Prophet (ﷺ) said: At the end of time there will be people who will use this black dye like the crops of doves who will not experience the fragrance of Paradise.
Sunan Abi Dawud
Combing the Hair (Kitab Al-Tarajjul)
When the Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) went on a journey, the last member of his family he saw was Fatimah, and the first he visited on his return was Fatimah. Once when he returned from an expedition she had hung...
Sunan Abi Dawud
Signet-Rings (Kitab Al-Khatam)
The Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) wanted to write to some persian rulers. He was told that they would not read a letter without a seal in the form of a silver ring on which he engraved "Muhammad the Messenger of...
Sunan Abi Dawud
Signet-Rings (Kitab Al-Khatam)
It remained in his hand until he died, in the hand of 'Abu Bakr until he died, in the hand of 'Umar until he died, and in the hand of 'Uthman. When he was near a well, it fell down...
Sunan Abi Dawud
Signet-Rings (Kitab Al-Khatam)
The signet-ring of the Prophet (ﷺ) was of silver with an Abyssinian stone.
Sunan Abi Dawud
Signet-Rings (Kitab Al-Khatam)
The signet-ring of the Prophet (ﷺ) was all of silver as was also its stone.
Sunan Abi Dawud
Signet-Rings (Kitab Al-Khatam)
The Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) took a signet-ring of gold, and put the stone next the palm of his hand. He engraved on it "Muhammad, the Messenger of Allah". The people then took signet-rings of gold. When he saw that...
Sunan Abi Dawud
Signet-Rings (Kitab Al-Khatam)
He engraved on it "Muhammad, the Messenger of Allah." and said: "No one must engrave anything in the manner of this signet-ring of mine. He then transmitted the rest of the tradition.