# Is it haram for men to wear earrings?

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

- URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/uvrr1jjbles/s/1/
- Date: 2018-03-05 · Kind: question · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Fatwa: Can men wear earrings? - Mufti Abu Layth al-Maliki (0:00–1:06)
- Status: general teaching
- Watch from the start of the segment: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uVRr1jjbLEs&t=0s
- Recording page: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/uvrr1jjbles/

**Topics:** Jewellery, gold and silk for men; Dress and appearance

**Question as asked:** Can men wear earrings?

**Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked):** 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.

**Checked position (checked by two independent reviews, not by the channel):** 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.

**Evidence, his words at 0:00:** “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” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uVRr1jjbLEs&t=0s)

## Longer summary

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.

## Sources and names cited

- Imam Malik
- report: when a boy is born on the seventh day he is given an earring to wear
- haram

## Transcript (machine tier, 0:00–1:06)

[0:00] 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

[0:37] 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

## Cite

Mufti Abu Layth Archive, segment uVRr1jjbLEs/s/1. https://muftiabulayth.org/r/uvrr1jjbles/s/1/

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