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Recordings › Fatwa: Can men wear earrings? - Mufti Abu Layth al-Maliki · 5 Mar 2018 › Segment 1 of 1

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Is it haram for men to wear earrings?

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Can men wear earrings? Not haram, though not the general custom

QuestionSource not recorded · questioner not identifiedAnswered 5 Mar 2018Quick Fiqh!Segment 1 of 1 in the recording2018-03-05c-S01

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It is not haram for men to wear earrings, though it is not the general custom. Boys wore them in the early period, and Imam Malik objected only to gold, not to the earring.

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In a clip from a live session Mufti Abu Layth says he does not believe it is haram for men to wear earrings and asks why it would be. He notes that the general custom in the medieval period was that men did not wear earrings but boys did, and that some narrations [?] describe a newborn boy being given an earring to wear on the seventh day, which is why many boys wore them. He cites Imam Malik being asked whether a boy may wear a gold earring and answering that boys should not wear gold, without condemning the earring itself, and adds that some transmit that Imam Malik's son wore an earring. He concludes that it is not the general culture, which he recognises, but that it is not haram.

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Can men wear earrings?

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Mufti Abu Layth holds that it is not haram for men to wear earrings, although it is not the general custom, noting that boys wore them in the medieval period and that Imam Malik objected only to a boy wearing gold, not to the earring itself.

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“I don't believe it's Haram for men to wear earrings why would it be Haram although the custom generally in the medieval ages was that men did not generally wear earrings but boys did”

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I don't believe it's Haram for men to wear earrings why would it be Haram although the custom generally in the medieval ages was that men did not generally wear earrings but boys did and to the extent that it was even transmitted that even in the hadith the that when a child is born when the boy is born on the seventh day in some of the rewire he says well you hell up and he's given an earring to wear and and this is why a lot of the boys wore earrings and even when Imam Malik is

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asked that wash if a boy is wearing an earring out of gold is that right or wrong and he says that they shouldn't wear gold but he doesn't condemn them for wearing the earring and to the extent that some of the people transmit the imam malik son used to have an earring so hey but i guess it's not the general culture i recognize that but it's not haram

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Mufti Abu Layth Archive, segment 2018-03-05c-S01, auto-transcribed, may contain errors. https://muftiabulayth.org/r/uvrr1jjbles/s/1/ (accessed 1 November 2026)

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Mufti Abu Layth. (2018, March 5). Is it haram for men to wear earrings? [Video, segment 2018-03-05c-S01, auto-transcribed, may contain errors]. Mufti Abu Layth Archive. Retrieved November 1, 2026, from https://muftiabulayth.org/r/uvrr1jjbles/s/1/
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Mufti Abu Layth. 2018. "Is it haram for men to wear earrings?" Video, segment 2018-03-05c-S01, auto-transcribed, may contain errors. Mufti Abu Layth Archive. Recorded March 5, 2018. Accessed November 1, 2026. https://muftiabulayth.org/r/uvrr1jjbles/s/1/
BibTeX 
@misc{abulayth-2018-03-05c-S01,
  author = {Mufti Abu Layth},
  title = {{Is it haram for men to wear earrings?}},
  year = {2018},
  month = {3},
  date = {2018-03-05},
  howpublished = {\url{https://muftiabulayth.org/r/uvrr1jjbles/s/1/}},
  url = {https://muftiabulayth.org/r/uvrr1jjbles/s/1/},
  organization = {Mufti Abu Layth Archive},
  urldate = {2026-11-01},
  note = {Segment 2018-03-05c-S01, auto-transcribed, may contain errors}
}
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