CHAPTER: IT IS NOT PERMISSIBLE FOR ONE WHO INTENDS TO SACRIFICE THE ANIMAL TO GET ONE'S HAIR OR NAILS CUT AFTER THE BEGINNING OF DHU'L-HIJJA
No. 4869
Umm Salama reported Allaah's Messenger (sallAllaahu alayhi wa sallam) having said this: When any one of you intending to sacrifice the animal enters in the month (of Dhu'l-Hijja) he should not get his hair or nails touched (cut). It was said to Sufyan that some of the (scholars) did not deem this hadith to be Maffu'. He said: But I deem it as Marfu' (i. e. chain of narration traceable right up to the Prophet).
No. 4870
Umm Salama reported Allaah's Prophet (sallAllaahu alayhi wa sallam) as saying: If anyone of you intends to offer sacrifice he should not get his hair cut or nails trimmed.
No. 4871
Umm Salama reported (these words) directly from Allaah's Messenger (sallAllaahu alayhi wa sallam): If anyone has in his possession a sacrificial animal to offer as a sacrifice (on 'Id al-Adha), he should not get his hair cut and nails trimmed after he has entered the first days of Dhu'l Hijja
No. 4872
This hadith has been narrated on the authority of 'Amr b. Muslim with the same chain of transmitters.
No. 4873
Umm Salama, the wife of Allaah's Prophet (sallAllaahu alayhi wa sallam), reported Allaah's Messenger (sallAllaahu alayhi wa sallam) to have said: He who has a sacrificial animal with him whom (he intends) to offer as sacrifice, and he enters the month of Dhu'I-Hijja, he should not get his hair cut or nails trimmed until he has sacrificed the animal.
No. 4874
'Amr b. Muslim b. 'Ammar al-Laithi reported: While we were in a bathroom just before 'Id al-Adha some of the persons tried to remove the hair with the help of hair-removing chemicals. Thereupon some of the people owning the bath (or some of the people sitting therein) said that Sa'id b. Musayyib did not approve of it, or he prohibited it. Then I met Sa'id b. Musayyib and made a mention of that to him, whereupon he said: O my nephew, this is the hadith which has been forgotten, and abandoned. Umm Salama, the wife of Allaah's Prophet (sallAllaahu alayhi wa sallam), narrated to me Allaah's Messenger (sallAllaahu alayhi wa sallam) having said as narrated above.
No. 4875
Amr b. Muslim al-Jundani reported that Ibn Musayyib had told him that it was Umm Salama, the wife of Allaah's Prophet (sallAllaahu alayhi wa sallam), who had informed him of that as narrated above.