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Permissible or Not?
It has become a common thing for Muslim women to fix extensions to their hair during occasions for beautification and adornment, or sometimes, for no reason at all.
It was narrated that the Prophet (ﷺ) forbade women to attach anything to their head.
(Muslim 2126)
This is general in meaning and applies to anything that may be attached to the head or worn on it. Some of the scholars are of the view that it is haraam to attach string, fabric and the like to the hair; others are of the opinion that what is haraam is attaching hair to it. The general and most acceptable view is that women are forbidden to add extensions to their hair, whether they are made of hair or anything else, if they could be mistaken for hair.
The Prophet (ﷺ) also said: “The one who pretends that he has been given what he has not been given is just like the false one who wear two garments of falsehood.”
(Saheeh Bukhārī, 9/317.)
It was also narrated that the Prophet (ﷺ) has cursed such a lady that artificially lengthens (her or someone else’s) hair or gets her hair lengthened.
(Bukhari, Vol. 7, Book 72, Hadith 819)
The one who fixes hair extensions is the one who joins the other hair to the woman’s hair. The one who has that done is the woman who asks someone else to do that for her. The above hadeeth issues a stern warning to the one who does these.
What is meant by being cursed is being excluded and banished far away from the mercy of Allaah. The scholars have stated that every sin for which Allaah, may He be exalted, has decreed the punishment of being cursed is a major sin.
Based on this, it is prohibited to attach anything to any hair on the body to extend it. This includes the hair on the head and also the eyelashes. Also, by the second Hadeeth, it is also prohibited to put on wigs, as a person that does that pretends to have something he/she hasn’t been given.
The Muslim woman should note that paying too much attention to such matters may be a kind of over-indulgence in leisure and luxury, and a waste of time and money which she could have used for something more beneficial to herself and other Muslims.
May Allaah (ﷻ) open our hearts to accepting the truth. May Allaah make falsehood appear as falsehood and grant us the strength to avoid it.
آمِيْن يَارَبَّ الْعَالَمِينْ
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