Sunnah Hairstyle | The Hair Of The Head | Hair Style In Islam

1. The Zulfayn of the Peace of our heart and mind, the Most Generous and Kind, the Prophet of mankind صَلَّی اللہُ تَعَالٰی عَلَیْہِ وَاٰلِہِ وَسَلَّم would at times be the length of halfway down the blessed ears.
2. At times, to the level of the earlobe,
3. And sometimes, would extend to kiss the blessed shoulders. (Ash-Shamail al-Mu7ammadiya lil-Tirmizi, pp. 18 & 34-35)
4. From time to time, we should act upon each of these three Sunnahs. So sometimes, we should keep our Zulfayn to the level of halfway down the ear, sometimes to the level of the earlobe, and at times up to the shoulders.
5. The Sunnah of keeping the Zulfayn up to the shoulders is often more difficult for our Nafs, nevertheless everybody should act upon this Sunnah at least once in his life. However, care should be taken to ensure that hair does not go below the shoulders. The length of hair can be correctly seen when the hair is wet, so in the days when the hair is grown to practice this Sunnah, properly comb the hair after having a bath/shower and check that the hair is not going below the shoulders.
6. A’la-Hazrat Imam Ahmad Raza Khan عَلَیْہِ رَحمَۃُ الرَّحْمٰن has stated, ‘Keeping hair below the shoulders [i.e. lower than the shoulder level] like women is Haram for men.’ (Fatawa Razawiyyah, Vol. 21, p. 600)
7. Sadr-ush-Shari’ah Maulana Amjad ‘Ali رَحْمَۃُ اللہِ تَعَالٰی عَلَیْہ has stated, ‘It is not permissible for a man to have long hair like women. Some people who call themselves Sufis (Ascetic) bear extremely long hair which runs over their chest like a snake and some of them even make their hair into ponytails or buns similar to women. This is all impermissible and against the Shari’ah (Bahar-e Shari’at, Vol. 16, p. 230)
8. It is Haram for a woman to shave the head. (Fatawa Razawiyyah, Vol. 22, p. 664)
9. It is impermissible and a sin for women to cut their hair short like Christian women of these times, and this act has been cursed. Even if the husband says to do this, the ruling still applies that the woman who does so will be sinful, because the order of the mother, father, husband, etc. will not be followed if it is contrary to the Shari’ah. (Bahar -e Shari’at, Vol. 16, p. 231)
10. Some people make a side parting in the hair either on the left or on the right; this is against the Sunnah.
11. The Sunnah is to part the hair in the center. (Bahar-e Shari’at, Vol. 16, p. 231)
12. Except for at Hajj, it is not proven that the Holy Prophet صَلَّی اللہُ تَعَالٰی عَلَیْہِ وَاٰلِہِ وَسَلَّم ever shaved his blessed head. (Fatawa Razawiyyah, Vol. 22, p. 690)
13. Keeping the hair in some of the modern styles of today in which the hair is cut using scissors or machines where part of the hair is long and part of it is short, is not Sunnah.
14. The Beloved Prophet صَلَّی اللہُ تَعَالٰی عَلَیْہِ وَاٰلِہِ وَسَلَّم has stated, ‘Whoever has hair, he should take regard of it. (Sunan Abi Dawud, Vol. 4, p. 103, Eadiš 4163) i.e. he should wash it, oil it and comb it.
15. Sayyiduna Ibrahim Khalilullah عَلَیْھِمْ السَّلَام was the first to organise a feast for guests, the first to do circumcision, the first to trim the moustache, and the first to see a white hair. He said, ‘O Lord! What is this?’ Allah عَزَّوَجَلَّ replied, ‘O Ibrahim! This is your grandeur,’ He then said, ‘O my Lord! Increase my grandeur.’ (Mu’aa Imam Malik, Vol. 2, p. 415, Hadis 1756)
16. On page 224 of part 16 of Bahar-e-Shari’at, [the 312-page publication of Maktaba-tul-Madinah, the publishing house of Dawat-e-Islami] it is stated: The Merciful Prophet صَلَّی اللہُ تَعَالٰی عَلَیْہِ وَاٰلِہِ وَسَلَّم has stated, ‘Whoever intentionally plucks a white hair, it will become a spear on the Day of Judgment, with which he will be stabbed.’ (Kanz-ul-‘Ummal, Vol. 6, p. 281, Hadis 17276)
17. It is a Bid’ah [Innovation] to shave or pluck hair around Bacchic (the few hairs which are on sides of the hair lying between the bottom lip and the chin). (Fatawa Alamgiri, Vol. 5, p. 358)
18. It is Makruh [Disliked] to shave the hair on the neck. (Fatawa Alamgiri, Vol. 5, p. 357) But it applies when the head is not shaved and the hair on the neck are shaved (many people do so when they have their beard neatened) but if the entire head is shaved, then along with this, the hair on the neck should also be shaved. (Bahar-e Shari’at, Vol. 16, p. 230)
19. There are four things about which there is a ruling that these should be buried; hair, nails, the cloth used by a woman to clean the blood of menses, and blood. (Bahar-e Shari’at, Vol. 16, p. 231; Fatawa Alamgiri, Vol. 5, p. 358)
20. It is Mustahab for men to turn the white hairs of the beard and head reddish or yellowish in colour; for this purpose Mehndi [Henna] can be used.
21. One should not sleep with henna pasted in the beard or hair. According to a Hakim, sleeping with henna pasted in hair causes the heat of the head to descend into the eyes, and this can be detrimental to the eyesight. This advice of the Hakim was verified in such a way that a blind person once came to Sag-e-Madinah [the author, Amir-e-Ahl-e- Sunnat]. He said that he was not born blind, but regrettably he once applied henna to his hair and then went to sleep. When he awoke, the light of his eyes had lost.
22. The whiteness of the hairs of the mustache, the bottom lip, and the edges of the beard of those people who apply henna can become apparent after only a few days and this is not nice to look at. Therefore, if you cannot repeatedly colour the entire beard then at least try to apply a small amount of henna on these places where the whiteness becomes apparent.