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abudawud:1985 – Abū Yaʿqūb al-Baghdādī Thiqah > Hishām b. Yūsuf > Ibn Jurayj > ʿAbd al-Ḥamīd b. Jubayr b. Shaybah > Ṣafiyyah b. Shaybah > Um ʿUthmān b. Abū Sufyān > Ibn ʿAbbās

The Prophet ﷺ said: Shaving is not a duty laid on women; only clipping the hair is incumbent on them.  

أبو داود:١٩٨٥ – حَدَّثَنَا أَبُو يَعْقُوبَ الْبَغْدَادِيُّ ثِقَةٌ حَدَّثَنَا هِشَامُ بْنُ يُوسُفَ عَنِ ابْنِ جُرَيْجٍ عَنْ عَبْدِ الْحَمِيدِ بْنِ جُبَيْرِ بْنِ شَيْبَةَ عَنْ صَفِيَّةَ بِنْتِ شَيْبَةَ قَالَتْ

أَخْبَرَتْنِي أُمُّ عُثْمَانَ بِنْتُ أَبِي سُفْيَانَ أَنَّ ابْنَ عَبَّاسٍ قَالَ قَالَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ ﷺ لَيْسَ عَلَى النِّسَاءِ الْحَلْقُ إِنَّمَا عَلَى النِّسَاءِ التَّقْصِيرُ  

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abudawud:1984 – Muḥammad b. al-Ḥasan al-ʿAtakī > Muḥammad b. Bakr > Ibn Jurayj > Balaghanī > Ṣafiyyah b. Shaybah b. ʿUthmān > Um ʿUthmān b. Abū Sufyān > Ibn ʿAbbās

The Prophet ﷺ said: Shaving is not a duty laid on women; only clipping the hair is incumbent on them.  

أبو داود:١٩٨٤ – حَدَّثَنَا مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ الْحَسَنِ الْعَتَكِيُّ حَدَّثَنَا مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ بَكْرٍ حَدَّثَنَا ابْنُ جُرَيْجٍ قَالَ بَلَغَنِي عَنْ صَفِيَّةَ بِنْتِ شَيْبَةَ بْنِ عُثْمَانَ قَالَتْ

أَخْبَرَتْنِي أُمُّ عُثْمَانَ بِنْتُ أَبِي سُفْيَانَ أَنَّ ابْنَ عَبَّاسٍ قَالَ قَالَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ ﷺ لَيْسَ عَلَى النِّسَاءِ حَلْقٌ إِنَّمَا عَلَى النِّسَاءِ التَّقْصِيرُ  

darimi:1946 – ʿAlī b. ʿAbdullāh al-Madīnī > Hishām b. Yūsuf > Ibn Jurayj > ʿAbd al-Ḥamīd b. Jubayr > Ṣafiyyah b. Shaybah > Um ʿUthmān b. Abū Sufyān > Ibn ʿAbbās

The Prophet ﷺ said: Shaving is not a duty laid on women; only clipping the hair is incumbent on them. (Using translation from Abū Dāʾūd 1984)  

الدارمي:١٩٤٦ – أَخْبَرَنَا عَلِيُّ بْنُ عَبْدِ اللَّهِ الْمَدِينِيُّ حَدَّثَنَا هِشَامُ بْنُ يُوسُفَ حَدَّثَنَا ابْنُ جُرَيْجٍ أَخْبَرَنِي عَبْدُ الْحَمِيدِ بْنُ جُبَيْرٍ عَنْ صَفِيَّةَ بِنْتِ شَيْبَةَ قَالَتْ

أَخْبَرَتْنِي أُمُّ عُثْمَانَ بِنْتُ أَبِي سُفْيَانَ أَنَّ ابْنَ عَبَّاسٍ قَالَ قَالَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ ﷺ «لَيْسَ عَلَى النِّسَاءِ حَلْقٌ إِنَّمَا عَلَى النِّسَاءِ التَّقْصِيرُ»