Is the hair on the neck part of the beard?

Question:
May Allah reward you, Your Eminence, father. The questioner says: I am a bearded man, praise and thanks be to Allah, but I plucked the hair on the neck below the chin. What is the ruling on that? And is it considered part of the beard?

Answer:
The beard is what grows on the cheeks and the jaw. As for what grows on the throat, that is not part of the beard, but leaving it is better. Because if you shave it, it grows thicker and increases, then you need to shave it every time, and then you get annoyed by it, so leaving it is better. That is from one aspect. The second aspect is that you may gradually go from shaving the hair on your throat to shaving your beard, so this would be a means to that. Therefore, leaving this thing is undoubtedly better.