Narrated Abdullah ibn Mughaffal:

The Apostle of Allah forbade combing the hair except every second day.

Narrated Fudalah ibn Ubayd:

Abdullah ibn Buraydah said: A man from the companions of the Prophet travelled to Fudalah ibn Ubayd when he was in Egypt.

He came to him and said: I have not come to you to visit you. But you and I heard a tradition from the Apostle of Allah . I hope you may have some knowledge of it.

He asked: What is it? He replied: So and so. He said: Why do I see you dishevelled when you are the ruler of this land?

He said: The Apostle of Allah has forbidden us to indulge much in luxury.

He said: Why do I see you unshod? He replied: The Prophet used to command us to go barefoot at times.

Narrated AbuUmamah Ilyas ibn Tha'labah:

The Companions of the Apostle of Allah mentioned this word before him. The Apostle of Allah said: Listen, listen! Wearing old clothes is a part of faith, wearing old clothes is a part of faith.

Narrated Anas ibn Malik:

The Prophet had sikkah with which he perfumed himself.

Narrated AbuHurayrah:

The Prophet said: He who has hair should honour it.

Narrated Aisha, Ummul Mu'minin:

Karimah, daughter of Hammam, told that a woman came to Aisha (Allah be pleased with her) and asked her about dyeing with henna. She replied: There is no harm, but I do not like it. My beloved, the Apostle of Allah , disliked its odour.

Narrated Aisha, Ummul Mu'minin:

When Hind, daughter of Utbah, said: Prophet of Allah, accept my allegiance, he replied; I shall not accept your allegiance till you make a difference to the palms of your hands; for they look like the paws of a beast of prey.

Narrated Aisha, Ummul Mu'minin:

A woman made a sign from behind a curtain to indicate that she had a letter for the Apostle of Allah . The Prophet closed his hand, saying: I do not know this is a man's or a woman's hand. She said: No, a woman. He said: If you were a woman, you would make a difference to your nails, meaning with henna.

Narrated AbuMusa:

The Prophet said: If a woman uses perfume and passes the people so that they may get its odour, she is so-and-so, meaning severe remarks.

Narrated AbuHurayrah:

A woman met him and he found the odour of perfume in her. Her clothes were fluttering in the air. He said: O maid-servant of the Almighty, are you coming from the mosque? She replied: Yes. He said: For it did you use perfume? She replied: Yes. He said: I heard my beloved AbulQasim say: The prayer of a woman who uses perfume for this mosque is not accepted until she returns and takes a bath like that of sexual defilement (perfectly).

Narrated AbuHurayrah:

The Prophet said: If a woman fumigates herself with perfume, she must not attend the night prayer with us. Ibn Nufayl said: Isha' means night prayer.

Narrated Ammar ibn Yasir:

I came to my family at night (after a journey) with my hands chapped and they perfumed me with saffron. In the morning I went to the Prophet and gave him a greeting, but he did not respond to me nor did he welcome me.

He said: Go away and wash this off yourself. I then went away and washed it off me. I came to him but there remained a spot of it on me. I give him a greeting, but he did not respond to me nor did he welcome me.

He said: Go away and wash it off yourself. I then went away and washed it off me. I then came and gave him a greeting.

He responded to me and welcomed me, saying: The angels do not attend the funeral of an unbeliever bringing good to it, nor a man who smears himself with saffron, nor a man who is sexually defiled. He said: He permitted the man who was sexually defiled to perform ablution when he slept, ate or drank.

Narrated Ammar ibn Yasir:

The tradition mentioned above (No. 4164) has also been transmitted by Ammar ibn Yasir through a different chain of narrators.

This version has: Ammar said: I used khaluq. The first version is more perfect; it mentioned "taking a bath". Ibn Jurayj said: I said to Umar (a transmitter): They might be wearing ihram (robe of pilgrim)? He replied: No, they were residents.

Narrated AbuMusa:

The Apostle of Allah said: Allah does not accept the prayer of a man who has any khaluq (perfume composed of saffron) on his body.

Narrated Ammar ibn Yasir:

The Prophet said: The angels do not come near three: the dead body of the unbeliever, one who smears himself with khaluq, and the one who is sexually defiled except that he performs ablution.

Narrated Al-Walid ibn Uqbah:

When the Prophet of Allah conquered Makkah. The people of Makkah began to bring their boys and he would invoke a blessing on them and rub their heads. I was brought, but as I had been perfumed with khaluq, he did not touch me because of the khaluq.

Narrated Anas ibn Malik:

A man came to the Apostle of Allah and he had the mark of yellowness (of saffron). The Prophet (peace be upon him rarely mentioned a thing which he disliked before a man. When he went away, he said: Would that you tell this man that he should wash this off him.

Narrated Anas ibn Malik:

The hair of the Apostle of Allah were up to the lobes of his ears.

Narrated Aisha, Ummul Mu'minin:

The hair of the Apostle of Allah were above wafrah and below jummah.

Narrated Aisha, Ummul Mu'minin:

When I parted the hair of the Apostle of Allah I made a parting from the crow of his head and let his forelock hang between his eyes.

Narrated Wa'il ibn Hujr:

I came to the Prophet and I had long hair. When the Apostle of Allah saw me, he said: Evil, evil! He said: I then returned and cut them off. I then came to him in the morning. He said (to me): I did not intend to do evil to you. This is much better.

Narrated Umm Hani:

The Prophet came to Mecca and he had four plaits of hair.

Narrated Abdullah ibn Ja'far:

The Prophet gave the children of Ja'far three day' time to visit them. He then came to visit them, and said: Do not weep over my brother after this day. He said: Call to me the children of my brother. We were brought to him as if we were chicken. He said: Call a barber to me. He then ordered and our heads were shaved.

Narrated Abdullah ibn Umar:

the Prophet forbade qaza' which means that the head of a boy is shaved and a lock is left.

Narrated Abdullah ibn Umar:

The Prophet saw a boy with part of his head shaved and part left unshaven. He forbade them to do that, saying: Shave it all or leave it all.

Narrated Anas ibn Malik:

I had a hanging lock of hair. My mother said to me: I shall not cut it, for the Apostle of Allah used to stretch it our and hold it.

Narrated Anas ibn Malik:

Al-Hajjaj ibn Hassan said: We entered upon Anas ibn Malik. My sister al-Mughirah said: You were a boy in those days and you had two locks of hair. He (Anas) rubbed your head and invoked blessing on you. He said: Shave them (i.e. the locks) or clip them, for this is the fashion of the Jews.

Narrated Abdullah ibn Amr ibn al-'As:

The Apostle of Allah said: Do not pluck out grey hair. If any believer grows a grey hair in Islam, he will have light on the Day of Resurrection. (This is Sufyan's version). Yahya's version says: Allah will record on his behalf a good deed for it, and will blot out a sin for it.

Narrated AbuDharr:

The Prophet said: The best things with which grey hair are changed are henna and katam.

Narrated AbuRimthah:

I went with my father to the Prophet . He had locks hanging down as far as the lobes of the ears stained with henna, and he was wearing two green garments.

Narrated AbuRimthah:

This version adds (to the previous hadith No 4194): My father said to him (the Prophet): Show me what is on your back, for I am a physician. He (the Prophet) said: You are only a soother. Its physician is He Who has credit it.

Narrated AbuRimthah:

I and my father came to the Prophet . He said to a man or to my father: Who is this? He replied: He is my son. He said: Do not commit a crime on him. He had stained his beard with henna.

Narrated Abdullah ibn Umar:

The Prophet used to wear tanned leather sandals and dye his beard yellow with wars and saffron.

Narrated Abdullah ibn Abbas:

When a man who had dyed himself with henna passed by the Prophet , he said: How fine this is! When another man who had dyed himself with henna and katam passed by, he said: This is better than that. Then another man who had dyed himself with yellow dye, passed by, he said: This is better than all that.

Narrated Abdullah ibn Abbas:

The Prophet said: At the end of time there will be people who will use this black dye like the crops of doves who will not experience the fragrance of Paradise.

Narrated Thawban:

When the Apostle of Allah went on a journey, the last member of his family he saw was Fatimah, and the first he visited on his return was Fatimah. Once when he returned from an expedition she had hung up a hair-cloth, or a curtain, at her door, and adorned al-Hasan and al-Husayn with silver bracelets. So when he arrived, he did not enter. Thinking that he had been prevented from entering by what he had seen, she tore down the curtain, unfastened the bracelets from the boys and cut them off.

They went weeping to the Apostle of Allah , and when he had taken them from them, he said: Take this to so and so's family. Thawban. In Medina, these are my family, and I did not like them to enjoy their good things in the present life. Buy Fatimah a necklace or asb, Thawban, and two ivory bracelets.