Muwatta' Malik 51-8

Translation

Yahya related to me from Malik that Yahya ibn Said said that Muhammad ibn Ibrahim at-Taymi had informed him that Abu Salama ibn Abd ar-Rahman said "Abd ar-Rahman ibn al-Aswad ibn Abdal-Yaghuth used to sit with us and he had a white beard and hair. One day he came to us and he had dyed them red, and the people said to him, 'This is better.' He said. 'A'isha the wife of the Prophet ﷺ sent her slave girl Nukhayla to me yesterday. She swore that my hair would be dyed and she informed me that Abu Bakr as- Siddiq used to dye his hair.' " Yahya said that he heard Malik say about dyeing the hair black, 'I have not heard anything certain on that, and other colours than that are preferable to me." Yahya said, "Not to dye at all is permitted, Allah willing, and there is no constraint on people concerning it." Yahya said that he had heard Malik say, "There is no clear indication in this hadith that the Messenger of Allah ﷺ did not dye his hair. Had the Messenger of Allah ﷺ dyed his hair, A'isha would have sent a message to that effect to Abd ar-Rahman ibn al-Aswad."

Notes

• قَالَ يَحْيَى سَمِعْتُ مَالِكًا يَقُولُ فِي صَبْغِ الشَّعَرِ بِالسَّوَادِ لَمْ أَسْمَعْ فِي ذَلِكَ شَيْئًا مَعْلُومًا وَغَيْرُ ذَلِكَ مِنَ الصِّبْغِ أَحَبُّ إِلَىَّ قَالَ وَتَرْكُ الصَّبْغِ كُلِّهِ وَاسِعٌ إِنْ شَاءَ اللَّهُ لَيْسَ عَلَى النَّاسِ فِيهِ ضِيقٌ قَالَ وَسَمِعْتُ مَالِكًا يَقُولُ فِي هَذَا الْحَدِيثِ بَيَانُ أَنَّ رَسُولَ اللَّهِ ﷺ لَمْ يَصْبُغْ وَلَوْ صَبَغَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ ﷺ لأَرْسَلَتْ بِذَلِكَ عَائِشَةُ إِلَى عَبْدِ الرَّحْمَنِ بْنِ الأَسْوَدِ

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Sunan Abi Dawud 4204Sunan Ibn Majah 3624Musnad Ahmad 14455al-Mu'jam al-Awsat 5664al-Sunan al-Kubra (al-Bayhaqi) 14939

Narrators

1. 1
   Abū Bakr al-Ṣiddīq

   Successor (Caliph) of the Messenger of Allah ﷺ (khalīfat rasūl Allāh ﷺ)d. 13 AH
   أَبُو بَكْرٍ الصِّدِّيقُخليفة رسول الله صلى الله عليه وسلم
   قال
2. 2
   ʿĀʾishah bt. Abū Bakr al-Ṣiddīq

   Mother of the Believers, the most knowledgeable woman in jurisprudence absolutely (afqah al-nisāʾ muṭlaqan)d. 57 AH, or 58 AH
   عَائِشَةُ بِنْتُ أَبِي بَكْرٍ الصِّدِّيقِأم المؤمنين ، أفقه النساء مطلقا
   قال
3. 3
   ʿAbd al-Raḥman b. al-Aswad al-Zuhrī

   He was born in the time of the Prophet ﷺ, and his father died in that period; for that reason he is counted among the Companions. Al-ʿIjlī said: He is one of the senior Followers (kibār al-tābiʿīn).d. between 61 and 80 AH
   عبد الرحمن بن الأسود الزهريولد على عهد النبي صلى الله عليه وسلم ، ومات أبوه في ذلك الزمان ؛ فعد لذلك في الصحابة ، وقال العجلي : من كبار التابعين
   أن
4. 4
   Abū Salamah b. ʿAbd al-Raḥmān

   trustworthy (thiqah), a prolific narrator (mukthir)d. 94 AH, or 104 AH
   أَبِي سَلَمَةَ بْنِ عَبْدِ الرَّحْمَنِثقة ، مكثر
   عن
5. 5
   Muḥammad b. Ibrāhīm b. al-Ḥārith al-Taymī

   Trustworthy (thiqah), with some unique narrations (afrād)d. 119 AH, or 120 AH, or 121 AH
   مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ إِبْرَاهِيمَ التَّيْمِيُّثقة له أفراد
   أخبرني
6. 6
   Yaḥyá b. Saʿīd al-Anṣārī

   trustworthy, precise (thiqah thabt)d. 143 AH or 144 AH, also said 146 AH
   يَحْيَى بْنِ سَعِيدٍثقة ثبت
   عن
7. 7
   Mālik b. Anas

   The jurist (al-faqīh), the Imam of the Abode of Migration (Imām Dār al-Hijrah), the head of the proficient masters, and the foremost among the meticulous.d. 178 AH, or 179 AH
   مَالِكٌالفقيه ، إمام دار الهجرة ، رأس المتقنين ، وكبير المتثبتين

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