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Subject: Re: shaving the beard

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Moustafa Morsy

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Date Posted: 18:59:23 10/13/02 Sun
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In reply to: mohammed 's message, "shaving the beard" on 06:26:51 10/13/02 Sun

ALHAMDLILLAH.It was narrated in al-Saheehayn that the Prophet (peace and blessings of Allaah be upon him) said: �Cut the moustache and let the beard grow; be different from the mushrikeen.� (al-Bukhaari, al-Libaas, 5442; Muslim, al-Tahaarah, 382.

The Shafi'i scholar Imam Nawawi in his commentary on Sahih Muslim says of the above hadith:
As for trimming the mustache, it is also a sunna. It is praiseworthy to begin from the right side . . . . As for how much should be trimmed, the soundest position is that one trims it until the edge of the lip appears, not trimming it down to the roots. As for the versions of the hadith containing the words crop mustaches, (ihfu al-shawarib) they mean "crop that which grows over the lips," and
Imam Baghawi records that "Malik has said, 'Shaving the mustache is an innovation (bid'a) that has appeared among people'" (Sharh al-sunna. 16 vols. Damascus: al-Maktab al-Islami.
Allah Knows Best.
Moustafa Morsy

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