Al-Adab Al-Mufrad

Book 53, Hadith 14

Arabic hadith text

حَدَّثَنَا سَعِيدُ بْنُ مُحَمَّدٍ الْجِرْمِيُّ، قَالَ‏:‏ حَدَّثَنَا يَعْقُوبُ بْنُ إِبْرَاهِيمَ، قَالَ‏:‏ حَدَّثَنَا أَبِي، عَنِ ابْنِ إِسْحَاقَ، عَنْ مُحَمَّدِ بْنِ إِبْرَاهِيمَ بْنِ الْحَارِثِ التَّيْمِيِّ، عَنْ أَبِي سَلَمَةَ بْنِ عَبْدِ الرَّحْمَنِ، عَنْ أَبِي هُرَيْرَةَ قَالَ‏:‏ قَالَ رَسُولُ اللهِ صلى الله عليه وسلم‏:‏ خَمْسٌ مِنَ الْفِطْرَةِ‏:‏ قَصُّ الشَّارِبِ، وَتَقْلِيمُ الأَظْفَارِ، وَحَلْقُ الْعَانَةِ، وَنَتْفُ الإِبْطِ، وَالسِّوَاكُ‏.‏

Translation

Unreviewed translation. All hadiths in this collection are available in five languages. Titles and introductions may remain in Arabic.

Sa‘id ibn Muhammad al-Jarmi related to us: Ya‘qub ibn Ibrahim related to us: My father related to us, from Ibn Ishaq, from Muhammad ibn Ibrahim ibn al-Harith al-Taymi, from Abu Salamah ibn ‘Abd al-Rahman, from Abu Hurayrah, who said: The Messenger of Allah, Allah bless him and grant him peace, said: ‘Five practices belong to the fitrah: trimming the moustache, clipping the nails, shaving the pubic hair, plucking the armpit hair, and using the siwak.’

Notes and open questions — unreviewed
  • Fitrah is retained as the religious term for the natural way/disposition. Siwak is a tooth-cleaning stick.