What is the ruling on growing the nails long, even though they are clean, and is cutting them a recommended practice or an obligation? Please inform us of this.
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The questioner : What is the ruling on growing the nails long, knowing that they are clean, and is cutting them a recommended practice or an obligation? Please inform us of this?
The Shaykh : Praise be to Allah, Lord of the worlds, and I send prayers and peace upon our Prophet Muhammad, the Seal of the Prophets, and upon his family and all his Companions. Trimming the nails or cutting them is among the sunnah (recommended practices) of the fitrah (innate natural disposition) upon which Allah created the creation, finding it pleasing by His decree and legislating it for them as a sunnah (recommended practice). The Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) set a time limit for this, as well as for trimming the mustache, shaving the pubic hair, and plucking the armpit hair, that they should not be left for more than forty days. Accordingly, the nails should not be left uncut for more than forty days, whether they are clean or dirty, because the best of guidance is the guidance of Muhammad (peace and blessings be upon him). Not cutting them is contrary to the fitrah (innate natural disposition) upon which Allah created people. If the reason for keeping them and leaving them uncut for more than forty days is imitating the disbelievers whose fitrah (innate natural disposition) has deviated from soundness, then that is forbidden (haram), because the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) said:Sunan Abi Dawud 4031Hasan Sahih (Al-Albani) It was narrated by Imam Ahmad with a good chain of narration. Shaykh al-Islam Ibn Taymiyyah said: "The minimum status of this hadith is that it indicates prohibition, even though its apparent meaning implies that the one who imitates them is a disbeliever". However, if the reason for keeping them and leaving them uncut for more than forty days is merely a whim in the person's soul, then that is contrary to the fitrah (innate natural disposition) and contrary to what the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) set as a time limit for his Ummah (Muslim community). Yes.
The questioner : This is a message we received from Riyadh from one of the brother listeners, who has coded his name as a student of knowledge. He says:
The Shaykh : Praise be to Allah, Lord of the worlds, and I send prayers and peace upon our Prophet Muhammad, the Seal of the Prophets, and upon his family and all his Companions. Trimming the nails or cutting them is among the sunnah (recommended practices) of the fitrah (innate natural disposition) upon which Allah created the creation, finding it pleasing by His decree and legislating it for them as a sunnah (recommended practice). The Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) set a time limit for this, as well as for trimming the mustache, shaving the pubic hair, and plucking the armpit hair, that they should not be left for more than forty days. Accordingly, the nails should not be left uncut for more than forty days, whether they are clean or dirty, because the best of guidance is the guidance of Muhammad (peace and blessings be upon him). Not cutting them is contrary to the fitrah (innate natural disposition) upon which Allah created people. If the reason for keeping them and leaving them uncut for more than forty days is imitating the disbelievers whose fitrah (innate natural disposition) has deviated from soundness, then that is forbidden (haram), because the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) said:
He who copies any people is one of them.
من تشبّه بقوم فهو منهمThe questioner : This is a message we received from Riyadh from one of the brother listeners, who has coded his name as a student of knowledge. He says: