Is it from the Sunnah to shave the hair of a female child on the seventh day like a male child? Or is it specific to the male child?

The questioner : May Allah reward you. He says: Is it from the Sunnah to shave the hair of a female child on the seventh day like a male child, or is shaving specific to the male child only?

The Shaykh : We do not find in the Sunnah anything that excludes the female slave, and we do not say "female slave" because "female slave" is specific to one who is not a free woman, and the intended meaning is the female child. We do not find anything that distinguishes between the female child and the male child regarding shaving the head on the seventh day. I say this even though there is no explicit hadith that the female child is like the male child, but we take that from the generality of his statement (peace and blessings be upon him): So if no specific ruling comes for women, they are included with men in this hadith, even though in some rulings they are separated from men, but that requires a text indicating the specificity of the woman in that ruling, and the matter here is not like that. So we say in that case, the hair of the female child is shaved just as the hair of the male child is shaved on the seventh day. Yes.

The questioner : May Allah reward you with good.