What is the ruling on a man and a woman dyeing their hair before it turns gray?

The questioner : If you permit me: Is it prescribed to dye hair other than gray hair?

The Shaykh : How?

The questioner : Dyeing hair before it turns gray?

The Shaykh : No.

The questioner : Nor for women, Shaykh?

The Shaykh : Nor for women.

The questioner : And what about the hadith: Does it not apply to this?

The Shaykh : No, except if she has gray hair.

The questioner : And what about henna?

The Shaykh : She dyes her hair if she has gray hair, but as for her hands and feet, that is from the Sunnah.

The questioner : And what is your opinion, Shaykh, regarding the prohibition?

The Shaykh : What did you say?

The questioner : What is the basis of your prohibition, meaning the evidence for the prohibition?

The Shaykh : First: Do you know that this falls under altering creation, and there is no text with us that exempts a woman from dyeing her hair when she does not have gray hair. I think we have reached the point, is that right?

The questioner : Yes, Shaykh.

Another questioner : Shaykh, and some say: This is adornment for her husband, and it is not exposed to non-mahram men, , meaning henna in her hair, and they used to use henna previously for adorning the hands and feet, so there is no objection to adorning her hair with henna for her husband, therefore it seems the brother Abu Hammam and the brothers asked about the ruling.

The questioner : Some of the brothers entrusted me with the question, and yesterday Shaykh Ibn Uthaymeen mentioned the same words as you.

The Shaykh : He mentioned our words.

The questioner : Yesterday, that is what reminded me to ask, he says it is permissible for women.

The Shaykh : Yes.