Sunan Abu Dawud - Book 33 - Combing The Hair (Kitab Tarajjul
Sunan Abu Dawud - Book 33 - Combing The Hair (Kitab Tarajjul
Sunan Abu Dawud - Book 33 - Combing The Hair (Kitab Tarajjul
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SUNAN ABU DAWUD BOOK 33: COMBING THE HAIR (KITAB AL-TARAJJUL)
The Apostle of Allah (peace be upon him) forbade combing the hair except every second day.
Abdullah ibn Buraydah said: A man from the companions of the Prophet (peace be upon him)
travelled to Fudalah ibn Ubayd when he was in Egypt.
He came to him and said: I have not come to you to visit you. But you and I heard a tradition from
the Apostle of Allah (peace be upon him). I hope you may have some knowledge of it.
He asked: What is it? He replied: So and so. He said: Why do I see you dishevelled when you are
the ruler of this land?
He said: The Apostle of Allah (peace be upon him) has forbidden us to indulge much in luxury.
He said: Why do I see you unshod? He replied: The Prophet (peace be upon him) used to command
us to go barefoot at times.
The Companions of the Apostle of Allah (peace be upon him) mentioned this word before him. The
Apostle of Allah (peace be upon him) said: Listen, listen! Wearing old clothes is a part of faith,
wearing old clothes is a part of faith.
The Prophet (peace be upon him) had sikkah with which he perfumed himself.
The Prophet (peace be upon him) said: He who has hair should honour it.
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SUNAN ABU DAWUD BOOK 33: COMBING THE HAIR (KITAB AL-TARAJJUL)
Karimah, daughter of Hammam, told that a woman came to Aisha (Allah be pleased with her) and
asked her about dyeing with henna. She replied: There is no harm, but I do not like it. My beloved,
the Apostle of Allah (peace be upon him), disliked its odour.
When Hind, daughter of Utbah, said: Prophet of Allah, accept my allegiance, he replied; I shall not
accept your allegiance till you make a difference to the palms of your hands; for they look like the
paws of a beast of prey.
A woman made a sign from behind a curtain to indicate that she had a letter for the Apostle of
Allah (peace be upon him). The Prophet (peace be upon him) closed his hand, saying: I do not know
this is a man's or a woman's hand. She said: No, a woman. He said: If you were a woman, you would
make a difference to your nails, meaning with henna.
The Prophet (peace be upon him) said: If a woman uses perfume and passes the people so that they
may get its odour, she is so-and-so, meaning severe remarks.
A woman met him and he found the odour of perfume in her. Her clothes were fluttering in the
air. He said: O maid-servant of the Almighty, are you coming from the mosque? She replied: Yes. He
said: For it did you use perfume? She replied: Yes. He said: I heard my beloved AbulQasim (peace be
upon him) say: The prayer of a woman who uses perfume for this mosque is not accepted until she
returns and takes a bath like that of sexual defilement (perfectly).
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SUNAN ABU DAWUD BOOK 33: COMBING THE HAIR (KITAB AL-TARAJJUL)
The Prophet (peace be upon him) said: If a woman fumigates herself with perfume, she must not
attend the night prayer with us. Ibn Nufayl said: Isha' means night prayer.
I came to my family at night (after a journey) with my hands chapped and they perfumed me with
saffron. In the morning I went to the Prophet (peace be upon him) and gave him a greeting, but he
did not respond to me nor did he welcome me.
He said: Go away and wash this off yourself. I then went away and washed it off me. I came to him
but there remained a spot of it on me. I give him a greeting, but he did not respond to me nor did he
welcome me.
He said: Go away and wash it off yourself. I then went away and washed it off me. I then came and
gave him a greeting.
He responded to me and welcomed me, saying: The angels do not attend the funeral of an
unbeliever bringing good to it, nor a man who smears himself with saffron, nor a man who is
sexually defiled. He said: He permitted the man who was sexually defiled to perform ablution when
he slept, ate or drank.
The tradition mentioned above (No. 4164) has also been transmitted by Ammar ibn Yasir through
a different chain of narrators.
This version has: Ammar said: I used khaluq. The first version is more perfect; it mentioned "taking
a bath". Ibn Jurayj said: I said to Umar (a transmitter): They might be wearing ihram (robe of
pilgrim)? He replied: No, they were residents.
The Apostle of Allah (peace be upon him) said: Allah does not accept the prayer of a man who has
any khaluq (perfume composed of saffron) on his body.
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SUNAN ABU DAWUD BOOK 33: COMBING THE HAIR (KITAB AL-TARAJJUL)
The Prophet (peace be upon him) said: The angels do not come near three: the dead body of the
unbeliever, one who smears himself with khaluq, and the one who is sexually defiled except that he
performs ablution.
When the Prophet of Allah (peace be upon him) conquered Makkah. The people of Makkah began
to bring their boys and he would invoke a blessing on them and rub their heads. I was brought, but
as I had been perfumed with khaluq, he did not touch me because of the khaluq.
A man came to the Apostle of Allah (peace be upon him) and he had the mark of yellowness (of
saffron). The Prophet (peace be upon him rarely mentioned a thing which he disliked before a man.
When he went away, he said: Would that you tell this man that he should wash this off him.
The hair of the Apostle of Allah (peace be upon him) were up to the lobes of his ears.
The hair of the Apostle of Allah (peace be upon him) were above wafrah and below jummah.
When I parted the hair of the Apostle of Allah (peace be upon him) I made a parting from the
crow of his head and let his forelock hang between his eyes.
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SUNAN ABU DAWUD BOOK 33: COMBING THE HAIR (KITAB AL-TARAJJUL)
I came to the Prophet (peace be upon him) and I had long hair. When the Apostle of Allah (peace
be upon him) saw me, he said: Evil, evil! He said: I then returned and cut them off. I then came to
him in the morning. He said (to me): I did not intend to do evil to you. This is much better.
The Prophet (peace be upon him) came to Mecca and he had four plaits of hair.
The Prophet (peace be upon him) gave the children of Ja'far three day' time to visit them. He then
came to visit them, and said: Do not weep over my brother after this day. He said: Call to me the
children of my brother. We were brought to him as if we were chicken. He said: Call a barber to me.
He then ordered and our heads were shaved.
the Prophet (peace be upon him) forbade qaza' which means that the head of a boy is shaved and a
lock is left.
The Prophet (peace be upon him) 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.
I had a hanging lock of hair. My mother said to me: I shall not cut it, for the Apostle of Allah
(peace be upon him) used to stretch it our and hold it.
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SUNAN ABU DAWUD BOOK 33: COMBING THE HAIR (KITAB AL-TARAJJUL)
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 Jews.
The Apostle of Allah (peace be upon him) said: 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.
The Prophet (peace be upon him) said: The best things with which grey hair are changed are
henna and katam.
I went with my father to the Prophet (peace be upon him). He had locks hanging down as far as
the lobes of the ears stained with henna, and he was wearing two green garments.
This version adds (to the previous hadith No 4194): 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 credit it.
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SUNAN ABU DAWUD BOOK 33: COMBING THE HAIR (KITAB AL-TARAJJUL)
I and my father came to the Prophet (peace be upon him). 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 beard
with henna.
The Prophet (peace be upon him) used to wear tanned leather sandals and dye his beard yellow
with wars and saffron.
When a man who had dyed himself with henna passed by the Prophet (peace be upon him), 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. Then another man who had dyed himself with yellow dye, passed by,
he said: This is better than all that.
The Prophet (peace be upon him) 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.
When the Apostle of Allah (peace be upon him) 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 up a hair-cloth, or a curtain, at her door, and adorned al-Hasan and al-
Husayn with silver bracelets. So when he arrived, he did not enter. Thinking that he had been
prevented from entering by what he had seen, she tore down the curtain, unfastened the bracelets
from the boys and cut them off.
They went weeping to the Apostle of Allah (peace be upon him), and when he had taken them
from them, he said: Take this to so and so's family. Thawban. In Medina, these are my family, and I
did not like them to enjoy their good things in the present life. Buy Fatimah a necklace or asb,
Thawban, and two ivory bracelets.
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