al-Matalib al-'Aliyah 1528
✧ The Virtue of Shaving the Head
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- قَالَ الْحَارِثُ: حَدَّثَنَا مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ عُمَرَ، عَنْ عَبْدِ الرَّحْمَنِ بْنِ عَبْدِ اللهِ بْنِ أَبِي صَعْصَعَةَ، عَنِ الْحَارِثِ بْنِ عَبْدِ اللهِ بْنِ كَعْبٍ، عَنْ أُمِّ عُمَارَةَ نَسِيبَةَ بِنْتِ كَعْبٍ ؓ قَالَتْ:
أَنَا أَنْظُرُ إِلَى رَسُولِ اللهِ ﷺ وَهُوَ يَنْحَرُ بُدْنَهُ قِيَامًا، وَسَمِعْتُهُ ﷺ يَقُولُ - وَقَدْ حَلَقَ رَأْسَهُ، ثُمَّ دَخَلَ قُبَّةً لَهُ حَمْرَاءَ، فَرَأَيْتُهُ أَخْرَجَ رَأْسَهُ مِنْ قُبَّتِهِ، وَهُوَ يَقُولُ -: يَرْحَمُ اللهُ الْمُحَلِّقِينَ - ثَلَاثًا، ثُمَّ قَالَ: وَالْمُقَصِّرِينَ
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Chain of narrators
- al-Ḥārith
- Muḥammad b. ʿUmar
- ʿAbd al-Raḥman b. ʿAbdullāh b. Abū Ṣaʿṣaʿah
- al-Ḥārith b. ʿAbdullāh b. Kaʿb
- Um ʿUmārah Nasībah Bint Kaʿb
✧ I was looking at the Messenger of Allah ﷺ while he was slaughtering his camels standing, and I heard him ﷺ say – after he had shaved his head, then he entered a red tent of his, and I saw him bring his head out of his tent, saying: 'May Allah have mercy on those who shave their heads' – three times, then he said: 'And those who shorten.'
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- Ibn Ḥajar al-ʿAsqalānī
في سنده الواقدي
in المطالب العالية, p. 1528
Other narrations of this report
Sahih al-Bukhari 1713Musnad Ahmad 6236Sahih Ibn Khuzaymah 3173Musannaf Ibn Abi Shaybah 13737al-Sunan al-Kubra (al-Bayhaqi) 10329al-Sunan al-Kubra (al-Nasa'i) 4123
Narrators
- well-known Companion (female)نُسَيْبَةُ بِنْتُ كَعْبٍ الْأَنْصَارِيَّةُصحابية مشهورةعن
- الحارث بن عبد الله بن كعبعن
- trustworthy (thiqah)d. during the caliphate of Abū Jaʿfarعَبْدِ الرَّحْمَنِ بْنِ عَبْدِ اللهِ بْنِ أَبِي صَعْصَعَةَثقةعن
- Abandoned (matrūk), despite his vast knowledged. 207 AH, or shortly after itمُحَمَّدُ بْنُ عُمَرَمتروك مع سعة علمهحدثنا
- d. 279 AH or 282 AHالْحَارِثُ
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