Shaving and Trimming One’s Nails or Hair
Al-Kāfi|Volume 4|Book 3|Chapter 188
10ـ مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ يَحْيَى عَنْ أَحْمَدَ بْنِ مُحَمَّدٍ عَنْ مُحَمَّدِ بْنِ يَحْيَى عَنْ غِيَاثِ بْنِ إِبْرَاهِيمَ عَنْ جَعْفَرٍ عَنْ آبَائِهِ عَنْ عَلِيٍّ (عَلَيْهِم السَّلاَم) قَالَ السُّنَّةُ فِي الْحَلْقِ أَنْ يَبْلُغَ الْعَظْمَيْنِ.
10. Muhammad ibn Yahya has narrated from Ahmad ibn Muhammad from Ghiyath ibn Ibrahim who has said the following: “Ja‘far عليه السلام, has narrated from his ancestors, ‘Alayhim al-Salam, who have said, ‘The sunnah about shaving is that it must reach the two bones (down to both temple bones).”’
- Mirʾāt al-ʿUqūl fī Sharḥ Akhbār Āl al-Rasūl (18/188)
- Ṣaḥīḥ al-Kāfī, vol. 2, p. 243