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Name of Questioner
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Marketa
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Women and Shaving Their Hair During Hajj
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07/Sep/2009
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Question
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Respected scholars, as-salamu `alaykum.
I have a question: Do women need to shave their hair during Hajj?
Respected scholars, as-salamu `alaykum.
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IOL Shari`ah Researchers |
| Topic | Shaving & Cutting the Hair |
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Wa`alykum as-salaamu wa rahmatullahi wa barakaatuh.
In the Name of Allah, Most Gracious, Most Merciful.
All praise and thanks are due to Allah, and peace and blessings be upon His Messenger.
Dear sister in Islam, we would like to thank you for showing keenness on knowing the teachings of Islam, and we appreciate the great confidence you have in us. We hope our efforts meet your expectations.
It is very important to note that during Hajj women do not have to shave their heads; they may only shorten their hair.
Elaborating more on this, we cite what Sheikh Sayyed Sabiq, stated in his well-known book Fiqh-us-Sunnah:
Abu Dawud and others reported on the authority Ibn `Abbas (may Allah be pleased with him) that the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) said: “Women (pilgrims) do not have to shave (their heads); they may only shorten their hair.”
Ibn Al-Mundhir points: "There is a scholarly consensus (ijma`) on this issue, because shaving a woman's head is in fact a sort of punishment for her."
As to how much of her hair a woman is to cut off, Ibn `Umar is reported to have said: "When a woman (pilgrim) wants to cut off her hair, she may hold her hair at the front and cut it off about the length of the tip of a finger."
According to `Ata', a woman should cut her hair off her sides, of the long hair as well as the short ones. This is reported by Sa`eed Ibn Mansur. Others hold that there is no limit as to how much a woman may cut off her hair. The Shafi`i school holds that cutting as much as three hairs is enough for a female pilgrim.
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