Al-Adab Al-Mufrad

Book 55, Hadith 13

Arabic hadith text

حَدَّثَنَا عَبْدُ الْعَزِيزِ قَالَ‏:‏ حَدَّثَنِي مَالِكٌ، عَنْ سَعِيدِ بْنِ أَبِي سَعِيدٍ الْمَقْبُرِيِّ، عَنْ أَبِيهِ، عَنْ أَبِي هُرَيْرَةَ‏:‏ خَمْسٌ مِنَ الْفِطْرَةِ‏:‏ تَقْلِيمُ الأَظْفَارِ، وَقَصُّ الشَّارِبِ، وَنَتْفُ الإِبْطِ، وَحَلْقُ الْعَانَةِ، وَالْخِتَانُ‏.‏

Translation

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

‘Abd al-‘Aziz related to us: Malik related to me, from Sa‘id ibn Abi Sa‘id al-Maqburi, from his father, from Abu Hurayrah: ‘Five practices belong to the fitrah: clipping the nails, trimming the moustache, plucking the armpit hair, shaving the pubic hair, and circumcision.’

Notes and open questions — unreviewed
  • The report gives the five practices in a different order from the preceding variants.