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Hadith 35601
Yahya related to me from Malik from Zayd ibn Aslam that Ata ibn
Yasar told him that the Messenger of Allah, may Allah bless him and
grant him peace, was in the mosque when a man came in with dishevelled
hair and beard. The Messenger of Allah. may Allah bless him and grant
him peace, motioned with his hand that he should be sent out to groom
his hair and beard. The man did so and then returned. The Messenger of
Allah, may Allah bless him and grant him peace, said, "Isn't this
better than that one of you should come with his head dishevelled, as
if he were a shaytan?"
Muwatta Malik Book 51, Hadith 7
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Yahya related to me from Malik from Yahya ibn Said that Abu
Qatada al-Ansari said to the Messenger of Allah, may Allah bless him
and grant him peace, "I have a lot of hair which comes down to my
shoulders, shall I comb it?'' The Messenger of Allah. may Allah bless
him and grant him peace, said, "Yes, and honour it." Sometimes Abu
Qatada oiled it twice in one day because the Messenger of Allah, may
Allah bless him and grant him peace, said to him. "Honour it." Muwatta Malik Book 51, Hadith 6
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Yahya related to me from Malik that Yahya ibn Said said that
Muhammad ibn Ibrahim at-Taymi had informed him that Abu Salama ibn Abd
ar-Rahman said "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. 'A'isha the wife of the Prophet, may Allah bless him
and grant him peace, sent her slave girl Nukhayla to me yesterday. She
swore that my hair would be dyed and she informed me that Abu Bakr as-
Siddiq used to dye his hair.' "
Yahya said that he heard
Malik say about dyeing the hair black, 'I have not heard anything
certain on that, and other colours than that are preferable to me."
Yahya said, "Not to dye at all is permitted, Allah willing,
and there is no constraint on people concerning it."
Yahya
said that he had heard Malik say, "There is no clear indication in
this hadith that the Messenger of Allah, may Allah bless him and grant
him peace, did not dye his hair. Had the Messenger of Allah, may Allah
bless him and grant him peace, dyed his hair, A'isha would have sent a
message to that effect to Abd ar-Rahman ibn al-Aswad." Muwatta Malik Book 51, Hadith 8