77. Dress

٧٧۔ كتاب اللباس

77.63 To cut short the mustaches

٧٧۔٦٣ باب قَصِّ الشَّارِبِ

[Machine] Ibn Umar used to grow his beard until the whiteness of his skin could be seen, and he would let it grow between his mustache and his beard.

وَكَانَ ابْنُ عُمَرَ يُحْفِي شَارِبَهُ حَتَّى يُنْظَرَ إِلَى بَيَاضِ الْجِلْدِ، وَيَأْخُذُ هَذَيْنِ، يَعْنِي بَيْنَ الشَّارِبِ وَاللِّحْيَةِ.

bukhari:5888al-Makkī b. Ibrāhīm > Ḥanẓalah > Nāfiʿ > Aṣḥābunā > al-Makkī > Ibn ʿUmar

The Prophet ﷺ said, "To get the moustaches cut 'short is characteristic of the Fitra."  

البخاري:٥٨٨٨حَدَّثَنَا الْمَكِّيُّ بْنُ إِبْرَاهِيمَ عَنْ حَنْظَلَةَ عَنْ نَافِعٍ قَالَ أَصْحَابُنَا عَنِ الْمَكِّيِّ عَنِ ابْنِ عُمَرَ ؓ

عَنِ النَّبِيِّ ﷺ قَالَ مِنَ الْفِطْرَةِ قَصُّ الشَّارِبِ  

Five human urges are from the fiṭrah (natural human instinct or disposition)

bukhari:5889ʿAlī > Sufyān > al-Zuhrī > Saʿīd b. al-Musayyab

Messenger of Allah ﷺ said, "Five practices are characteristics of the fiṭrah: (1) circumcision, (2) shaving the pubic region, (3) plucking the arm pits, (4) clipping the nails, and (5) cutting the mustaches."  

البخاري:٥٨٨٩حَدَّثَنَا عَلِيٌّ حَدَّثَنَا سُفْيَانُ قَالَ الزُّهْرِيُّ حَدَّثَنَا عَنْ سَعِيدِ بْنِ الْمُسَيَّبِ

عَنْ أَبِي هُرَيْرَةَ رِوَايَةً الْفِطْرَةُ: «خَمْسٌ» أَوْ «خَمْسٌ مِنَ الْفِطْرَةِ: (١) الْخِتَانُ (٢) وَالاِسْتِحْدَادُ (٣) وَنَتْفُ الإِبْطِ (٤) وَتَقْلِيمُ الأَظْفَارِ (٥) وَقَصُّ الشَّارِبِ۔»