Sahih Muslim 1303
Shaving the head is preferrable to cutting the hair, although cutting the hair is permissible
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حَدَّثَنَا أَبُو بَكْرِ بْنُ أَبِي شَيْبَةَ حَدَّثَنَا وَكِيعٌ وَأَبُو دَاوُدَ الطَّيَالِسِيُّ عَنْ شُعْبَةَ عَنْ يَحْيَى بْنِ الْحُصَيْنِ عَنْ جَدَّتِهِ
أَنَّهَا سَمِعَتِ النَّبِيَّ ﷺ فِي حَجَّةِ الْوَدَاعِ دَعَا لِلْمُحَلِّقِينَ ثَلاَثًا وَلِلْمُقَصِّرِينَ مَرَّةً
Translation
Chain of narrators
- Abū Bakr b. Abū Shaybah
- Wakīʿ Waʾabū Dāwud al-Ṭayālisī
- Shuʿbah
- Yaḥyá b. al-Ḥuṣayn
- Jaddatih
Yahya b. al-Husain reported on the authority of his grandfather that Allah's Apostle ﷺ invoked blessing on the occasion of the Farewell Pilgrimage three times for those who got their heads shaved and once for those who got their hair clipped. In the narration transmitted by Waki' there is no mention of the Farewell Pilgrimage.
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Same hadith, other wordings
- Misykatul Mashabih 2649وَعَن يحيى بن الْحصين عَن جدته أَنَّهَا سَمِعَتِ النَّبِيَّ صَلَّى اللَّهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ فِي حَجَّةِ الْوَدَاعِ دَعَا لِلْمُحَلِّقِينَ ثَلَاثًا وَلِلْمُقَصِّرِينَ مرّة وَاحِدَة. رَوَاهُ مُسلم