Recordings › Holistic Overview: Can Men Wear Earrings? -Mufti Abu Layth · 24 Jul 2019 › Segment 4 of 10
Did Hasan and Husayn wear earrings?
hadeeth ahadith ahaadeeth hadis hadees ahaadith malik ibn anas malik bin anas imam maalik imam malik ibn anas imaam prayer leader shari'ah shariat sharee'ah muftis sunnat sunan prophetic practice hasan hadith hasan li-ghayrihi hasan li-dhatihi hasan sahih madina al-madinah madeenah yathrib sunni ahl al-sunnah ahl as-sunnah ahlus sunnah ahl al-sunna shiah shiite shi'i twelver ithna ashari ulama ulema ulamaaThe seven sunnahs for a newborn boy, and the earrings of Hasan and Husayn
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machinesummary, machine-writtenIbn Abbas lists piercing the ear among seven sunnahs for a newborn boy, and Hasan and Husayn had their ears pierced and wore earrings, Husayn wearing two. The reports come through Imam Jafar al-Sadiq's chain and an eyewitness account from Karbala.
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Mufti Abu Layth reads the hadith of Ibn Abbas that seven things are from the sunnah for the boy on the seventh day: he is formally named, circumcised, his ear is pierced, and the aqiqah is given, among other things. He then says that the Prophet's grandsons Hasan and Husayn both had their ears pierced and wore earrings, and that Husayn wore two, one of the kind the Arabs called a qurt on the lobe and one called a shanf on the upper ear. He says the Shia traditions continue to narrate this: Imam Jafar al-Sadiq, the teacher of Abu Hanifa and of Imam Malik in Madinah, transmits through his father Muhammad al-Baqir and Zayn al-Abidin from Husayn a report in which the Prophet told Fatima to pierce the ears of Hasan and Husayn [?], and there are several narrations that the two wore earrings; these, he stresses, are the grandsons of the Prophet and among the greatest people in Islam, and the Imams in the chain are accepted by Sunnis too. He adds narrations that Husayn's ear was pierced at his birth, and a vivid account by one of the men involved in killing Husayn at Karbala, Hani ibn Thubayt al-Hadrami [?], who said he was among the ten standing when Husayn fell and watched him look left and right with both his earrings shaking.
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Mufti Abu Layth says that the Prophet's grandsons Hasan and Husayn had their ears pierced and wore earrings, Husayn wearing two, as Shia traditions through Imam Jafar al-Sadiq and accounts of Karbala relate.
“the prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam scranton both of his grandsons Hasan and Husayn radi allahu anhu man had the ears pierced and they both wore earrings”
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Sun and this is in the the marginal all sort of tehrani and it's been declared by several scholars including the recent legend Maya - Sharia of al-azhar asahi even Abbas says seven seven or from the Sunna for the boy fist he says fasabi regarding the boy Yoma survey on the seventh day as a ceremony he will formally be named so he goes through all of these things that he will be circumcised and he's talking about the boy and it goes on to mention that what to Scott or
the new HOH and his ear will be pierced okay this is the boy now you may think well man that's even our bus for the Elan and he says what your up go and when you will give the Atika and things like this now you may say well I don't really know now let me tell you something people the prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam scranton both of his grandsons Hasan and Husayn radi allahu anhu man had the ears pierced and they both wore earrings that's correct
hassan radi allahu on and Hussein rodeo on imam husain bull earrings in fact imam hussain had two earrings he would wear one it's described generally the Arabs described this to be a court which is in the lower on the lobe and they described that on top to be a shelf and they say Hussein had both he had a court and a shelf right so that's Imam Hussein you and you will see that the sheer traditions continue to narrate this Imam Jaffa imam ja'far the teacher of abu
hanifa the teacher of imam ali who lived in medina transmits he transmits from going through his father muhammad al-baqir through Zine El Abidine through her saying from he transmits this hadith that the Prophet said yeah Fatima earth will be other mail Hassan will have seen that pierce the ears of Hasan and Husayn in another narration and you've got several iterations that Hasan and Husayn wore earrings right then these are the grandsons of the Prophet these are some
of the the greatest people in Islam they will earrings now you will have even even the narration now check this out people so you have later Shia kept this alive by continuously truck and I say the amount but these were the amounts that even soomi's accept so you will have narrations where they described that when Hussein was born that they talked about ozone hole that they pierced his ear and so on and he wore an earring now what's interesting is her knee Allah dorami who is one of
the people that was who describes the events of Karbala and he was one of the people that killed is involved in martyring hussain ali allah whan he describes that when we attacked him he says when he felt in fact the wording is he says in nila walkathon are shiroyasha I was from the ten that was standing when Husain fell he says l'm sorry I he says lemasurier Al Hussein what was the rule and he says that when Hussein fell and he was dazed here a toughy - you mean awashima and he was looking left and right left and right he says
what kora Tahu Yetta that the ban and his both earrings were shaking and he describes the events of when they he was on I mean he was obviously one of the people that Martin and killed Hussein really long but he describes the events quite vividly and other people do as well that during his final time Imam Hussain really Allah on had two earrings in another narration they say were fiorini he do return in both of his ears he wore earrings now you may think well no that doesn't sound quite right and I'll come back to this point just hold
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@misc{abulayth-2019-07-24b-S04, author = {Mufti Abu Layth}, title = {{Did Hasan and Husayn wear earrings?}}, year = {2019}, month = {7}, date = {2019-07-24}, howpublished = {\url{https://muftiabulayth.org/r/pkjtq8axgre/s/4/}}, url = {https://muftiabulayth.org/r/pkjtq8axgre/s/4/}, organization = {Mufti Abu Layth Archive}, urldate = {2026-11-01}, note = {Segment 2019-07-24b-S04, auto-transcribed, may contain errors} }
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