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prohibition explained by resemblance to a non-Muslim religious practice

Cited in 2 segments across 2 recordings · 2014 to 2015 · principle/principle:resemblance-to-non-muslim-religious-practice

Citing segments

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5 May 2015video Is a short back and sides or faded haircut haram? A short back and sides, or hair of unequal lengths, is permissible and does not fall under the hadith forbidding qaza'. Shaving patches and leaving others (qaza') is at most disliked, not haram, in the view he presents, unless done to disfigure or to imitate a religious practice. Question raised by Mufti Abu Laythposition checkedqaza'report: the prophet forbade qaza (unresolved; Ibn Umar, Sahih Muslim and Sahih al-Bukhari, number not stated)report: shave all of it or leave all of it (unresolved; the child with a patch of hair, al-Nasa'i and Abu Dawud)report: i will not cut it for i saw the prophet hold you by it (unresolved; the braid of Anas ibn Malik, Abu Dawud) machine15 min 52 s1:20on YouTube
12 Apr 2014video What do the sound hadith about the beard actually say? Only three hadith on the beard have undisputed chains, and each pairs trimming the moustache with the beard and gives the reason of differing from the Jews and Christians, the Majus or the mushrikin. Many read this as an obligatory command, but Mufti Abu Layth says other hadith show otherwise. Lessonposition checkedSahih MuslimMusnad AhmadAbu Hurayra [?]report: be different to the mushrikin trim the moustaches and let the beards grow machine4 min 02 s9:16on YouTube