Muslim brothers and sisters. Sometimes you see a video by a certain so-called Islamic scholar and you become sad this is one of those. The beard question always comes up. Huh? Your beard was long many years ago.
Now it is shorter. Don’t take me as a role model. Follow whomever you want. And without a doubt, the prophet pbuh had a full beard. So whoever wants to keep that may do so. And if some Sahaba took a fistful and trimmed, good for them. But to say that that is wajid because Ibn ‘Umar would do this, Ibn ’Umar would take his beard and he would hold it and cut it after that.
To say that Ibn ‘Umar’s action is legislative upon the rest of the Ummah is an extrapolation. So if you ask me Allah did not intend these very minute issues to become codified. The Prophet’s pbuh told us the meaning of the Hadith is the best of the people of my generation. Then those who come after them, and then those who come after them, the entire Ummah is agreed upon.
The interpretation of the first three generations and the Sahaba are telling you how much to trim the beard.
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