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Sunan Abu DawudCombing the Hair (Kitab Al-Tarajjul)

Sunan Abu Dawud 4170

Chapter: Hair Extensions

Differing grades 3 scholars’ grades Sunan Abu Dawud 4170

Narrator:Ibn ‘Abbās

حَدَّثَنَا ابْنُ السَّرْحِ، حَدَّثَنَا ابْنُ وَهْبٍ، عَنْ أُسَامَةَ، عَنْ أَبَانَ بْنِ صَالِحٍ، عَنْ مُجَاهِدِ بْنِ جَبْرٍ، عَنِ ابْنِ عَبَّاسٍ، قَالَ

لُعِنَتِ الْوَاصِلَةُ وَالْمُسْتَوْصِلَةُ وَالنَّامِصَةُ وَالْمُتَنَمِّصَةُ وَالْوَاشِمَةُ وَالْمُسْتَوْشِمَةُ مِنْ غَيْرِ دَاءٍ ‏.‏

Narrated Ibn 'Abbas:

The woman who supplies fake hair and the one who asks for it, the woman who pulls out hair for other people and the woman who depilates herself, the woman who tattoos and the one who has it done when there is no disease to justify it have been cursed.

Abu Dawud said: Wasilah means the woman who adds false hair to the hair of women. Mustawsilah means the one who asks for adding the hair to her hair. namisah means a woman who plucks hair from the brow until she makes it thin; mutanammisah means the woman who depilates herself ; washimah is a woman who tattoos in the face with antimony or ink ; mustawshimah is a woman with whom it is done.

Reported by Abu Dawud (No. 4170).

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Classical commentary

Al-Azimabadi — Awn al-Ma'bud

( لُعِنَتْ ) : بِصِيغَةِ الْمَجْهُول ( مِنْ غَيْر دَاء ) : قَالَ الْقَارِي : مُتَعَلِّق بِالْوَشْمِ. قَالَ الْمُظْهِر إِنْ اِحْتَاجَتْ إِلَى الْوَشْم لِلْمُدَاوَاةِ جَازَ وَإِنْ بَقِيَ مِنْهُ أَثَر , وَقِيلَ مُتَعَلِّق بِكُلِّ مَا تَقَدَّمَ أَيْ لَوْ كَانَ بِهَا عِلَّة فَاحْتَاجَتْ إِلَى أَحَدهَا لَجَازَ اِنْتَهَى. وَالْحَدِيث سَكَتَ عَنْهُ الْمُنْذِرِيُّ. ( الَّتِي تَنْقُش الْحَاجِب ) : أَيْ تُخْرِج شَعْره بِالْمِنْقَاشِ. قَالَ فِي الْمِصْبَاح : النَّقْش النَّتْف بِالْمِنْقَاشِ اِنْتَهَى وَالْمِنْقَاش هُوَ الْمِنْتَاف أَيْ آلَة النَّتْف ( حَتَّى تُرِقّهُ ) : مِنْ الْإِرْقَاق ( وَالْوَاشِمَة الَّتِي تَجْعَل الْخِيلَان ) : جَمْع خَال ( فِي وَجْههَا بِكُحْلٍ أَوْ مِدَاد ) : بِكَسْرِ الْمِيم مَ…

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Scholars’ grades

The 3 scholars cited do not give the same grade: each one is shown below.

ScholarGradeApplies toWork
Al-Albanid. 1420 AH AuthenticSahih صحيح The hadith No. 4170
Zubair Ali Zaid. 1435 AH WeakDaif The hadith No. 4170
Muhammad Muhyi al-Din Abd al-Hamidd. 1392 AH AuthenticSahih The hadith No. 4170

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Ibn ‘Abbas said the woman who supplies false hair and the one who asks for it, the woman who pulls out hair for other people and the woman who depilates herself, the woman who tattoos and the one who has it done when there was no disease to justify it were cursed. Abu Dawud transmitted it.

وَعَن ابنِ عبَّاسٍ قَالَ: لُعِنَتِ الْوَاصِلَةُ وَالْمُسْتَوْصِلَةُ وَالنَّامِصَةُ وَالْمُتَنَمِّصَةُ وَالْوَاشِمَةُ والمشتوشمة من غير دَاء. رَوَاهُ أَبُو دَاوُد

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