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﴿ فَاسْأَلُوا أَهْلَ الذِّكْرِ إِن كُنتُمْ لَا تَعْلَمُونَ ﴾

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The ruling on letting the nails grow for more than forty days

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Question:
Honorable Shaykh, may Allah grant you success, a questioner asks: What is the ruling on letting the nails grow for more than forty days?

Answer:
This is disliked. It is disliked because it is imitating wild beasts. Letting the nails grow is imitating wild beasts. So one should trim them, and the limit is forty days. Yes.
Source شرح كتاب المنتقى من أخبار المصطفى صلى الله عليه وسلم، بداية من باب نهي المسافر أن يطرق أهله بقدومه ليلا — islamhouse.com (1:10:51)

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