about a hadith concerning the mukhannath, who is the mukhannath, and what are his rulings?
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The Shaykh : What is the authenticity of this hadith? As for the hadith, it is valid. The mukhannath is the man who imitates women in his clothing, his gait, and his coquetry, as I mentioned earlier. This mukhannath who imitates women and has no manliness is cursed, as came in the hadith of al-Bukhari with the wordingMishkat al-Masabih 4429. As for the mutarajjilat, they are those who imitate, meaning they imitate men. Women imitating men is also in their gait, their swagger, their walking in the middle of the roads, their mixing with men, and their sitting with men. So any action that men do, if they imitate this specific action of men, it is tarajjul, and it is the woman imitating men, and that is not permissible.
And the ugliest imitation is for a woman to wear a man's clothing. For example, if a man's clothing is short, she wears the short clothing. If the man uncovers his head, his face, and part of his chest, she also imitates him in that. Therefore, this is among the worst imitations a woman commits, and she thereby deserves the curse of Allah and being far from the Paradise of Allah, Blessed and Exalted is He, as came in the valid hadith. And it came in some other hadiths that the scent of Paradise is found from a distance of a hundred miles. So men should strive not to allow themselves to imitate anything related to women, and not to allow the women who cling to them to imitate men, preserving for them that they be near to Allah, Blessed and Exalted is He, and not far from His mercy, Mighty and Majestic.
The Shaykh : What is the authenticity of this hadith? As for the hadith, it is valid. The mukhannath is the man who imitates women in his clothing, his gait, and his coquetry, as I mentioned earlier. This mukhannath who imitates women and has no manliness is cursed, as came in the hadith of al-Bukhari with the wording
God has cursed men who imitate women and women who imitate men
لعن الله المتشبهين من الرجال بالنساء والمتشبهات من النساء بالرجالAnd the ugliest imitation is for a woman to wear a man's clothing. For example, if a man's clothing is short, she wears the short clothing. If the man uncovers his head, his face, and part of his chest, she also imitates him in that. Therefore, this is among the worst imitations a woman commits, and she thereby deserves the curse of Allah and being far from the Paradise of Allah, Blessed and Exalted is He, as came in the valid hadith
