Sahih al-Bukhari 4886

Translation

“Allah has cursed women who tattoo, women who have themselves tattooed, women who pluck facial hair, and women who file gaps between their teeth for beauty, thereby changing Allah’s creation.” This reached a woman from Banu Asad called Umm Yaqub. She came and said, “I have been told that you cursed such-and-such women.” He said, “Why should I not curse those whom the Messenger of Allah ﷺ cursed and who are mentioned in the Book of Allah?” She said, “I have read everything between its two covers, but I did not find in it what you say.” He said, “If you had truly read it, you would have found it. Have you not read, ‘Whatever the Messenger gives you, take it, and whatever he forbids you from, refrain from it’?” ([al-Hashr 59:7](https://quran.islamunlocked.com/quran:59:7)) She said, “Yes.” He said, “He did indeed forbid it.” She said, “I think your wife does it.” He said, “Go and look.” She went and looked but did not see any of what she was looking for. He then said, “Had she been like that, I would not have had marital relations with her.”

Notes

• فَبَلَغَ ذَلِكَ امْرَأَةً مِنْ بَنِي أَسَدٍ يُقَالُ لَهَا أُمُّ يَعْقُوبَ، فَجَاءَتْ فَقَالَتْ إِنَّهُ بَلَغَنِي أَنَّكَ لَعَنْتَ كَيْتَ وَكَيْتَ. فَقَالَ وَمَا لِي لاَ أَلْعَنُ مَنْ لَعَنَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ صلى الله عليه وسلم وَمَنْ هُوَ فِي كِتَابِ اللَّهِ فَقَالَتْ لَقَدْ قَرَأْتُ مَا بَيْنَ اللَّوْحَيْنِ فَمَا وَجَدْتُ فِيهِ مَا تَقُولُ. قَالَ لَئِنْ كُنْتِ قَرَأْتِيهِ لَقَدْ وَجَدْتِيهِ، أَمَا قَرَأْتِ [quran sura="59" aya_start="7" aya_end="7"]{وَمَا آتَاكُمُ الرَّسُولُ فَخُذُوهُ وَمَا نَهَاكُمْ عَنْهُ فَانْتَهُوا}[/quran]. قَالَتْ بَلَى. قَالَ فَإِنَّهُ قَدْ نَهَى عَنْهُ. قَالَتْ فَإِنِّي أَرَى أَهْلَكَ يَفْعَلُونَهُ. قَالَ فَاذْهَبِي فَانْظُرِي. فَذَهَبَتْ فَنَظَرَتْ فَلَمْ تَرَ مِنْ حَاجَتِهَا شَيْئًا، فَقَالَ لَوْ كَانَتْ كَذَلِكَ مَا جَامَعْتُها

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Same hadith, other wordings

• Misykatul Mashabih 4431وَعَنْ عَبْدِ اللَّهِ بْنِ مَسْعُودٍ قَالَ: لَعَنَ اللَّهُ الْوَاشِمَاتِ وَالْمُسْتَوْشِمَاتِ وَالْمُتَنَمِّصَاتِ وَالْمُتَفَلِّجَاتِ لِلْحُسْنِ الْمُغَيِّرَاتِ خَلْقَ اللَّهِ فَجَاءَتْهُ امْرَأَةٌ فَقَالَتْ: إِنَّهُ بَلَغَنِي أَنَّكَ لَعَن
• Shahih al-Bukhari 5943لَعَنَ اللَّهُ الْوَاشِمَاتِ وَالْمُسْتَوْشِمَاتِ وَالْمُتَنَمِّصَاتِ وَالْمُتَفَلِّجَاتِ لِلْحُسْنِ الْمُغَيِّرَاتِ خَلْقَ اللَّهِ مَا لِي لاَ أَلْعَنُ مَنْ لَعَنَهُ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ ﷺ وَهْوَ فِي كِتَابِ اللَّهِ
• Shahih al-Bukhari 5948لَعَنَ اللَّهُ الْوَاشِمَاتِ وَالْمُسْتَوْشِمَاتِ وَالْمُتَنَمِّصَاتِ وَالْمُتَفَلِّجَاتِ لِلْحُسْنِ الْمُغَيِّرَاتِ خَلْقَ اللَّهِ مَا لِي لاَ أَلْعَنُ مَنْ لَعَنَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ ﷺ وَهْوَ فِي كِتَابِ اللَّهِ

Other narrations of this report

Sahih Muslim 2125dMusnad Ahmad 3945Sahih Ibn Hibban 5504Musannaf Ibn Abi Shaybah 25729Musnad al-Bazzar 1534Musnad al-Bazzar 2055

Narrators

1. 1
   ʿAbdullāh b. Masʿūd

   One of the earliest and foremost (al-sābiqūn al-awwalūn), and one of the leading scholars among the Companions; his virtues are manyd. 28 AH, or 32 AH, 33 AH
   عَبْدُ اللهِ بْنُ مَسْعُودٍمن السابقين الأولين ، ومن كبار العلماء من الصحابة ، مناقبه جمة
   عن
2. 2
   ʿAlqamah b. Qays al-Nakhaʿī

   Trustworthy (thiqah), firm (thabt), jurist, devout worshipperd. 61 AH, or 62 AH, or 65 AH, or 72 AH, or 73 AH, also said: 63 AH
   عَلْقَمَةَثقة ثبت فقيه عابد
   عن
3. 3
   Ibrāhīm al-Nakhaʿī

   Trustworthy (thiqah), except that he often narrates with omission of the Companion (irsāl).d. 94 AH, or 95 AH, or 96 AH
   إِبْرَاهِيمَثقة إلا أنه يرسل كثيرا
   عن
4. 4
   Manṣūr b. al-Muʿtamir

   Trustworthy (thiqah), reliable (thabt), and he did not commit tadlīs (lā yudallis)d. 132 AH, or 133 AH
   مَنْصُورٍثقة ثبت ، وكان لا يدلس
   عن
5. 5
   Sufyān al-Thawrī

   trustworthy (thiqah), a memorizer (ḥāfiẓ), a jurist (faqīh), devout (ʿābid), an imam and authority (ḥujjah)d. 159 AH or 160 AH or 161 AH or 162 AH
   سُفْيَانُثقة حافظ , فقيه عابد ، إمام حجة
   حدثنا
6. 6
   Muḥammad b. Yūsuf

   trustworthy (thiqah), virtuous, it is said: he erred in some of the hadith of Sufyān, despite that, he is given precedence in it by them over ʿAbd al-Razzāqd. 212 AH
   مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ يُوسُفَثقة فاضل ، يقال : أخطأ في شيء من حديث سفيان ، وهو مقدم فيه مع ذلك عندهم على عبد الرزاق
   حدثنا
7. 7
   al-Bukhārī

   a mountain of memorization and the leader of the world in the comprehension of hadith (jabal al-ḥifẓ wa-imām al-dunyā fī fiqh al-ḥadīth)d. 256 AH
   الْبُخَارِيُّجبل الحفظ وإمام الدنيا في فقه الحديث

Who each narrator was and how reliable, from hdith.com

Latin names and English verdicts with a dotted underline are machine translations, not reviewed.

Also in

riyad 1645aMishkat al-Masabih 4431lulu-marjan 1377