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**Esmeralfaf** · 03-26-2012, 07:17 AM

Rifai.
1) Actions of the Sahaba are a hujjah is our school.
2) This is where we have to disagree. Because we get nothing authentic from the Prophet about trimming the beard, yet we get it from Sahaba like Ibn `Umar, Abu Hurayra & Ibn 'Abbas as well as from many tabi'in. And practically everyone from the Khayr al Qur'oon talks about a fistful. Secondly the Hanafi school takes trimming to a fistful as the MAXIMUM that can be trimmed because we have nothing from the texts or the practice of the Salaf about a beard less than a fist.

Personally, the opinion that I convey to inquiring souls is always the mu´tamad, i.e. that it is makruh to take anything from the beard, even that which is above a fist length (except for on Hajj and Umrah). I was merely stating some arguments that the great Imams of this Ummah have employed when disagreeing with both "my" view and the standard Hanafi view. Imam Ghazali was a mujtahid and subsequent Fiqh works by various Imams of the school are basically based on his works.

wassalam

03-26-2012, 07:17 AM	#24
Esmeralfaf Join Date Oct 2005 Posts 441 Senior Member	Rifai. 1) Actions of the Sahaba are a hujjah is our school. 2) This is where we have to disagree. Because we get nothing authentic from the Prophet about trimming the beard, yet we get it from Sahaba like Ibn `Umar, Abu Hurayra & Ibn 'Abbas as well as from many tabi'in. And practically everyone from the Khayr al Qur'oon talks about a fistful. Secondly the Hanafi school takes trimming to a fistful as the MAXIMUM that can be trimmed because we have nothing from the texts or the practice of the Salaf about a beard less than a fist. Personally, the opinion that I convey to inquiring souls is always the mu´tamad, i.e. that it is makruh to take anything from the beard, even that which is above a fist length (except for on Hajj and Umrah). I was merely stating some arguments that the great Imams of this Ummah have employed when disagreeing with both "my" view and the standard Hanafi view. Imam Ghazali was a mujtahid and subsequent Fiqh works by various Imams of the school are basically based on his works. wassalam
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