We ask you to clarify the limit of the grip (clarifying the error in the common saying, "So-and-so shaves his chin")

The questioner : My Shaykh, regarding the beard, may Allah bless you, the taking or the grip, the place of the grip, it seems to you that there is a detail in this, so if you would clarify it.

The Shaykh : The grip below the chin, is there not a misunderstanding from the Arabic perspective? They say, "So-and-so shaves his chin." If he shaves his chin, he would be dead, because the chin is not a specific attribute of men; every person, whether male or female, has a chin. The chin is this lower part of the face where the hair grows, which is called the beard. A woman has a chin, but she does not have a beard. The grip is at the bottom of the chin, and whatever exceeds that slightly, you should cut it, following the righteous predecessors. As for going deeper and deeper until the beard becomes, as they say in our region of Sham, "the best of chins," a sign that...

The questioner : ... .

The Shaykh : No, this man is, of course, expressing the beard by the chin, meaning this is not permissible, of course...

Another questioner : O our Shaykh, does what exceeds the grip here apply to all sides?

The Shaykh : Yes, yes, yes, yes.