The beard

Question

A certain person says: if you grow a beard, there is no harm, and if you do not grow it, no harm occurs either; and growing a beard is a sunna.

Answer

That person is wrong. Growing the beard is wajib and shaving it is haram; cutting it before it reaches one fistful (qabda) is impermissible by consensus. In the noble hadith the Messenger of Allah ﷺ clearly commanded growing the beard and letting it grow long. يحرم على الرجل قطع لحيته “It is haram for a man to cut off his beard.” End of quote (al-Durr al-Mukhtar, vol. 5, p.

Source: Fatawa Mahmudiyya

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