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Plucking White Hair A Sin?
Assalamualaikum. Please explain this hadees. Is it really a sin to pluck the white hair. I’m 34 years old and sometimes I pluck white hairs. Is it a. Sin?
- Reference Number: Sunan Abi Dawud 4202 (Book 35, Chapter 17: “Plucking Grey Hairs”) [1]
- Arabic Text: عَنْ عَمْرِو بْنِ شُعَيْبٍ عَنْ أَبِيهِ عَنْ جَدِّهِ قَالَ قَالَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ صلى الله عليه وسلم ” لاَ تَنْتِفُوا الشَّيْبَ مَا مِنْ مُسْلِمٍ يَشِيبُ شَيْبَةً فِي الإِسْلاَمِ إِلاَّ كَانَتْ لَهُ نُورًا يَوْمَ الْقِيَامَةِ ”
- English Translation: Narrated ‘Amr ibn Shu’ayb, from his father, from his grandfather: The Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) said: “Do not pluck out grey hair. If any believer grows a grey hair in Islam, he will have light on the Day of Resurrection.” [1]
- Grading: Hasan (Sound) according to Al-Albani and Al-Tirmidhi. [1, 2]
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Plucking White Hair A Sin?
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Such instructions should be understood in the category of admonition, moral guidance, and good conduct. The practices encouraged in such hadiths concerning manners and behavior are not necessarily obligatory or compulsory; rather, they are to be adopted as part of good conduct.
At times, the underlying purpose of religious instructions is to emphasize refinement, dignity, and respect for old age, rather than to prescribe explicit punishments or express a severe prohibition. In religion, only those matters that are definitively established through the Quran or Sunnah are obligatory.
If some general moral or social principle can be derived from specific instructions found in the hadiths—such as the instruction not to pluck out grey hairs—it should be understood and practiced at that level, rather than insisting upon it as though it were an obligation or prohibition of Shariah.
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