Brother I`m a 18 yr old boy n would like to know if hair dyeing or colouring is permitted according to Holy Qur`an n Hadith... Please answer my question...
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I`m a 18 yr old boy n would like to know if hair dyeing or colouring is
permitted according to Holy Qur`an n Hadith... Please answer my question...
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would also like to know if it is permitted for unmarried girls or not???
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Answer:
Hair color
In the name of Allah, We praise Him, seek His help and ask
for His forgiveness. Whoever Allah guides none can misguide, and whoever
He allows to fall astray, none can guide them aright. We bear witness that
there is none worthy of worship but Allah Alone, and we bear witness that
Muhammad (saws) is His slave-servant and the seal of His Messengers.
The Messenger of Allah
(saws) himself, and some of his closest companions used to dye their hair with
henna and/or ‘katam’ (dye of plants used as hair-color).
Sahih Al-Bukhari
Hadith 1.167 Narrated by Ubaid Ibn
Juraij
‘And about the
dyeing of hair with Hinna; no doubt I
saw the Messenger of Allah (saws) dyeing his hair with it and that is why I
like to dye (my hair with it).’
Al-Muwatta Hadith
51.8
Yahya related that
Abd ar-Rahman ibn al-Aswad ibn Abdal-Yaghuth used to sit with us and he had a
white beard and hair. One day he came to
us and he had dyed them red, and the people said to him, 'This is better.' He said, 'Aisha, the wife of the Prophet
(saws) sent her slave girl Nukhayla to me yesterday. She informed me that Abu Bakr as-Siddiq used
to dye his hair.'
Sahih Al-Bukhari
Hadith 5.257 Narrated by Anas (the
servant of the Prophet)
When the Prophet
arrived (at Medina), there was not a single companion of the Prophet who had
grey and black hair except Abu Bakr, and
he dyed his hair with Hinna and Katam (i.e. plants used for dying hair). Through another group of narrators, Anas bin
Malik said,. "When the Prophet arrived at
Dyeing of the hair is
permissible in Islam for both, the believing men and the believing women. And if Allah has blessed one with old age, it
is preferable that one does not dye their hair jet-black, but rather dye it brown,
dark red, or with henna or katam as was the practice of the Messenger of Allah
(saws) and his noble companions.
To the best of our knowledge
there is nothing in the Quran or the Sunnah which prohibits the believers from
changing the color of their hair, if they wish to do so.
Whatever written of Truth and benefit is only due to
Allah’s Assistance and Guidance, and whatever of error is of me alone. Allah Alone Knows Best and He is the Only
Source of Strength.
Your brother and
well wisher in Islam,
Burhan