Is it allowed shaving the hair when a relative has passed away?

· 27 Jumada I 1421 AH1 min readFatwa 570English
PrayerFuneral

Question

The question text was not published separately; the title stands in for it.

Is it allowed shaving the hair when a relative has passed away?

Answer

To mourn the death of a person by shaving the hair was the practise of the pre-Islamic era. Rasulullah (Sallallaahu Alayhi Wasallam) prohibited the practise.

and Allah Ta'ala Knows Best

Mufti Ebrahim Desai

Answered by
Mufti Ebrahim Desai
Ask AskImam

Fatawa SA is an independent, read-only index of fatawa already published by Darul Iftaa Mahmudiyyah (AskImam). It is not a fatwa service. For your own situation, ask the issuing Darul Ifta directly.