No. 5295

Asma', daughter of Abu Bakr, reported that a woman came to Allaah's Prophet (sallAllaahu alayhi wa sallam) and said: I have a daughter who has been newly wedded. She had an attack of smallpox and thus her hair had fallen; should I add false hair to her head? Thereupon Allaah's Messenger (sallAllaahu alayhi wa sallam) said: Allaah has cursed the woman who adds some false hair and the woman who asks for it.

No. 5296

This hadith has been transmitted on the authority of Shu'ba with a slight variation of wording.

No. 5297

Asma', daughter of Abu Bakr, reported that a woman came to Allaah's Prophet (sallAllaahu alayhi wa sallam) and said: I have married my daughter (whose) hair of head have fallen. Her spouse likes them (the long hair). Allaah's Messenger (may add false hair to her head? He forbade her to do this.

No. 5298

A'isha reported that a girl of the Ansar who had fallen ill and had lost the hair was married. They (her relatives) thought of adding false hair (to her head). so they asked Allaah's Messenger (sallAllaahu alayhi wa sallam) about it, whereupon he cursed the woman who adds false hair and the woman who asks for it.

No. 5299

A'isha reported that a woman from the Ansar married her daughter who had lost her hair because of illness. She came to Allaah's Prophet (sallAllaahu alayhi wa sallam) and said: Her husband wants that false hair should be aaded to her head. Thereupon Allaah's Messenger (sallAllaahu alayhi wa sallam) said: The woman who adds false hair has been cursed. This hadith has been narrated on the authority of Nafi' with the same chain of transmitters but with a slight variation of wording.

No. 5300

Ibn Umar reported Allaah's Messenger (sallAllaahu alayhi wa sallam) cursing the woman who added false hair and the woman who asked for tattoos. This hadith has been reported on the authority of Abdullah through another chain of transmitters.

No. 5301

'Abdullah reported that Allaah had cursed those women who tattooed and who have themselves tattooed, those who pluck hair from their faces and those who make spaces between their teeth for beautification changing what God has created. This news reached a woman of the tribe of Asad who was called Umm Ya'qub and she used to recite the Holy Qur'an. She came to him and said: What is this news that has reached me from you that you curse those women who tattooed and those women who have themselves tattooed, the women who pluck hair from their faces and who make spaces between their teeth for beautification changing what God has created? Thereupon 'Abdullah said: Should I not curse one upon whom Allaah's Messenger (sallAllaahu alayhi wa sallam) has invoked curse and that is in the Book also. Thereupon that woman said: I read the Qur'an from cover to cover, but I did not find that in it. whereupon he said: If you had read (thoroughly) you would have definitely found this in that (as) Allaah, the Exalted and Glorious, has said:" What Allaah's Messenger brings for you accept that. and what he has forbidden you. refrain from that." That woman said: I find this thing in your wife even now. Thereupon he said: Go and see her. She reported: I went to the wife of 'Abdullah but found nothing of this sort in her. She came back to him and said: I have not seen anything. whereupon he said: Had there been anything like it in her, I would have never slept with her in the bed.

No. 5302

This hadith has been reported on the authority of Mansur with the same chain of transmitters but with a slight variation of wording.

No. 5303

This hadith has been narrated on the authority of Mansur without the story pertaining to Umm Ya'qub.

No. 5304

This hadith has been transmitted on the authority of Abdullah.

No. 5305

Jabir b. Abdullah reported that Allaah's Prophet (sallAllaahu alayhi wa sallam) reprimanded that a woman should add anything to her head (in the form of artificial hair).

No. 5306

Abd al-Rahman b. 'Auf said that he heard Mu'awiya b Sufyin during the season of Hajj. (saying) as he sat upon the pulpit holding a bunch of hair in his hand which was (previously) in the hand of his sentinel: O people of Medina, where are your scholars? I heard Allaah's Messenger (sallAllaahu alayhi wa sallam) forbidding this and saying: That the people of Bani Isra'il were ruined at the time when their women wore shuch hair.

No. 5307

This hadith has been transmitted on the authority of Zuhri but with a slight variation of wording.

No. 5308

Sa'id b. Musayyib reported: Mu'awiya came to Medina and he addressed us and he took out a bunch of hair and said: What do I see that one of you does but that what the Jews did? (I can well recall) that when this act (adding of artificial hair) reached Allaah's Messenger (sallAllaahu alayhi wa sallam), he named it as cheating.

No. 5309

Sa, id b. Musayyib reported that Mu'awiya said one day: Should I narrate to you the evil make-up. Allaah's Prophet (sallAllaahu alayhi wa sallam) forbade cheating. It was during that time that a person came with a staff and there was a cloth on its head, whereupon Mu, awiya said: Behold, that is cheating. Qatada said: This implies how women artificially increase their hair with the help of rags.