Recordings › Holistic Overview: Can Men Wear Earrings? -Mufti Abu Layth · 24 Jul 2019 › Segment 10 of 10
Is it haram for a man to wear an earring?
malik ibn anas malik bin anas imam maalik imam malik ibn anas imaam prayer leader muftis haraam forbidden mubah mubaah dalil daleel adillah adilla proof hasan hadith hasan li-ghayrihi hasan li-dhatihi hasan sahih jahannam jahanam jahannum as-salaf salaf al-salih salaf us-salih al-salaf early generations shiah shiite shi'i twelver ithna ashari ulema ulamaa scholarsThe pious man with an earring in Ibn Qudama's Tawwabin, and the holistic conclusion
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machinesummary, machine-writtenNo: men's earrings are permissible, with the precedent of Hasan, Husayn, Imam Malik and Sufyan ibn Uyayna, and the later scholars who opposed them were likely influenced by outside traditions. Mufti Abu Layth accepts that others may call it haram but says the evidence speaks for itself.
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Mufti Abu Layth cites a statement he believes is in Ibn Qudama's [?] Kitab al-Tawwabin, where the author describes the most God-fearing man he met in his life and mentions that he wore an earring. He then sums up the overview: wearing earrings is permissible for men; for thousands of years men have worn them, soldiers, Assyrians, pirates and others, sometimes to show defiance of authorities such as the European church; in the Prophet's time men and certainly children wore them; among the Salaf the Prophet's grandsons Hasan and Husayn, Imam Malik and Sufyan ibn Uyayna wore them; and only hundreds of years later did the ulama turn against the practice, perhaps under the influence of the Christian church or other traditions, which they are entitled to think. He says anyone who chooses to wear an earring has a great precedent and is in great company, that calling it imitation of women is ridiculous when kohl would be a stronger case and men wear eyeliner without objection, so such statements are arbitrary. He accepts that people may still say it is haram, but says the evidence speaks for itself, and moves on to the next topic.
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Mufti Abu Layth concludes that wearing earrings is permissible for men, with the precedent of Hasan, Husayn, Imam Malik and Sufyan ibn Uyayna, that the later ulama's opposition may reflect the influence of the Christian church or other traditions, and that calling it imitation of women is an arbitrary claim.
“so this is a kind of an overview a holistic overview that yes wearing earrings is permissible for men”
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can take from him but we can't take from imam ja'far or any of the Shia Imams if it's in a Shia book when they're describing that Hussein used to wear earrings why oh because it's coming from that's just stupid let's just be honest I'm trying to be fitted so and then the fact that many of these ingrate Mohideen Imam wore these earrings like a bloomin heart sufyani be Narayana in mom Miley called and there's a very interesting statement in a book by it's by evening Adama I believe in his tawa being where he states one of the most pious people he
ever met in his lifetime he describes this man he says he was the most God fear not pious re he says he was the most god-fearing man I met in my life and he said and he describes him and he says he wore an earring so this is this so this is a kind of an overview a holistic overview that yes wearing earrings is permissible for men yes it is always for thousands of years being something that men have worn often in times of to show that they don't follow things like the Christian Church in Europe or they defy those things but many soldiers the Assyrians and other
people pirates and all these people I spoke of at the beginning of this discussion all wore earrings in the prophets time men wore earrings it's evident the children definitely wore earrings many of the cell of the prophets on grunts grandsons Hasan and Husayn wore earrings and imam malik warren earrings of Jannik Norina worn earring but yes in the generations and hundreds of years later orlimar started to turn against this practice and they seem to perhaps they were influenced by the Christian Church of Europe perhaps by other traditions but they seem to think this is no good but that's fine
they can think that but you if you do decide to choose it you have a great precedent people like Imam Husayn Imam Malik all these people who you know you're in great company so that's what I would say and to say that this is imitating women is ridiculous because things like go hell would be more identifying with imitating women yet people seem to be fine with wearing eyeliner for men so these are very arbitrary statements so I hope that's a good kind of holistic overview to demonstrate the permissibility and I accept people can say whatever they want they can say it's
Haram are going to them but the evidence is speak for themselves right okay people let's whoa let's move on right so I think we've kinda
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@misc{abulayth-2019-07-24b-S10, author = {Mufti Abu Layth}, title = {{Is it haram for a man to wear an earring?}}, year = {2019}, month = {7}, date = {2019-07-24}, howpublished = {\url{https://muftiabulayth.org/r/pkjtq8axgre/s/10/}}, url = {https://muftiabulayth.org/r/pkjtq8axgre/s/10/}, organization = {Mufti Abu Layth Archive}, urldate = {2026-11-01}, note = {Segment 2019-07-24b-S10, auto-transcribed, may contain errors} }
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