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.
Notes
وَلَمْ يَقُلْ وَكِيعٌ فِي حَجَّةِ الْوَدَاعِ
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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
Other narrations of this report
Sunan Ibn Majah 3045Musnad Ahmad 11149Musnad Ahmad 11847Musannaf Ibn Abi Shaybah 13790Musnad Abi Ya'la 2718
Narrators
- Female Companion (ṣaḥābiyyah)أُمُّ الْحُصَيْنِ بِنْتُ إِسْحَاقَ الْأَحْمَسِيَّةُصحابيةعن
- trustworthy (thiqah)d. between 111 and 120 AHيَحْيَى بْنِ الْحُصَيْنِثقةعن
- Trustworthy (thiqah), a retentive memorizer (ḥāfiẓ), meticulous (mutqin)d. 160 AHشُعْبَةَثقة حافظ , متقنعن
- trustworthy (thiqah), a retentive memorizer (ḥāfiẓ), who erred in some hadithsd. 203 AH, or 204 AHوَأَبُو دَاوُدَ الطَّيَالِسِيُّثقة حافظ , غلط في أحاديثحدثنا
- trustworthy (thiqah), a memorizer (ḥāfiẓ), author of works (ṣāḥib taṣānīf)d. 235 AH, or 234 AHأَبُو بَكْرِ بْنُ أَبِي شَيْبَةَثقة حافظ ، صاحب تصانيفحدثنا
- Trustworthy (thiqah), a retentive memorizer (ḥāfiẓ), an imam, an author of compilations, knowledgeable in jurisprudence (fiqh)d. Muḥammad b. Yaʿqūb said: 261 AH, Makkī b. ʿAbdān said: 259 AHمُسْلِمٌثقة حافظ ، إمام ، مصنف ، عالم بالفقه
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Commentaries
Mirqāt al-Mafātīḥ (al-Mullā ʿAlī Qārī)
Mirʿāt al-Mafātīḥ (al-Mubārakfūrī)
Lamaʿāt al-Tanqīḥ (ʿAbd al-Ḥaqq al-Dihlawī)
al-Minhāj (Nawawī)
al-Mufham (Abū al-ʿAbbās)
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