Gardens of the Righteous — Page 279
RIYADH AS-SALIHIN 279 1645. Abdullah ibn Ja'far relates that the Holy Prophet permitted the family of Ja'far to mourn for him for three days. Then he came to them and said: Do not weep for my brother after today. Then he said: Bring my brother's sons to me. We were brought to him feeling like bereft chicks. He then asked: Call me a barber; and when he came he directed him to shave our heads, which he did (Abu Daud). 1646. Ali relates that the Holy Prophet forbade a woman shaving her head (Nisai). 294. . On Prohibition of Wigs, Tattooing and Filing of Teeth. Allah, the Exalted, has said: 401. They invoke beside Him none but lifeless objects; and they invoke none but Satan, the rebellious one, whom. Allah has cast away. He said to Allah: I will assuredly beguile a fixed portion from Thy servants, and will lead them astray, and will excite in them vain desires, and will incite them to cut off the ears of cattle to alter Allah's creation (4. 118-121). 1647. Asma' relates that a woman asked the Holy Prophet: Messenger of Allah, my daughter suffered from smallpox and her hair fell off. Now I have celebrated her marriage. Can I get her a wig? He answered: Allah has cursed the maker and the wearer of a wig (Bokhari and Muslim). Another version is:. The maker of a wig and she who desires a wig. 1648. Ayesha relates about the same (Bokhari and Muslim). 1649. Humaid ibn Abdur Rahman relates that he heard Mu'awiah say from the pulpit the year he was on Pilgrimage, taking hold of a bunch of hair from the hands of a guard: O people of Medina, where are your divines? I heard the Holy Prophet forbid this and say: The Bani Israel were ruined when their women took to this kind of thing (Bokhari and Muslim). 1650. Ibn Umar relates that the Holy Prophet cursed the maker and wearer of a wig and the tattooer and the one who is tattooed (Bokhari and. Muslim). 1651. Ibn Mas'ud said: Allah has cursed tattooers and those who are tattooed, and those women who have their teeth filed for beauty and those who have their hair plucked and thus alter Allah's creation. A woman asked him:. What is all this? He answered: Why should I not curse those whom the Holy. Prophet cursed? Allah, the Exalted, has said in His Book: Whatever the. Messenger gives you that take, and whatsoever he forbids you from that abstain (59. 8) (Bokhari and Muslim).