1. Hair transplant (from the back of the head is transplanted to the top and around) 2. Using a wig to hide the current hair status. 3. Hair grafting (placing and fixing artificial material that looks like hair).

Mu' meneen Brothers and Sisters,

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Salam alaikkum wr wb

Dear Burhan Bhai

 

My next question is about hair loss. If a person has hair loss and cannot stop it with oils or medication but due to his young age or any other reason wants his hair back just like before or doesn`t want to get embarassed in front of people, there are a few methods below which i ASK you .. are they haram or not ??

 

1. Hair transplant (from the back of the head is transplanted to the top and around)

2. Using a wig to hide the current hair status.

3. Hair grafting (placing and fixing artificial material that looks like hair).

 

Salam

 

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Answer:

 

Hair loss treatments

In the name of Allah, We praise Him, seek His help and ask for His forgiveness. Whoever Allah guides none can misguide, and whoever He allows to fall astray, none can guide them aright. We bear witness that there is none worthy of worship but Allah Alone, and we bear witness that Muhammad (saws) is His slave-servant and the seal of His Messengers.

 

Sahih Al-Bukhari Hadith 7.817         Narrated by Aisha

An Ansari girl was married and she became sick and all her hair fell out. Intending to provide her with false hair, they asked the Prophet (saws) who said, "Allah has cursed the lady who artificially lengthens (her or someone else's) hair,  and also the one who gets her hair lengthened."

 

Sahih Al-Bukhari Hadith 7.133         Narrated by Aisha

An Ansari woman gave her daughter in marriage and the hair of the latter started falling out. The Ansari women came to the Prophet (saws) and mentioned that to him and said, "Her (my daughter's) husband suggested that I should let her wear false hair." The Prophet (saws)  said, "No, (don't do that) for Allah sends His curses upon such ladies who lengthen their hair artificially."

 

Although the prohibition towards the lengthening of one’s hair artificially is specified only for the believing woman in the above quoted guidance, the absolute majority of the scholars and the jurists in Islam are of the opinion that the prohibition applies to both, the believing males as well as the females. 

 

The scholars and jurists in Islam are of the opinion that any medication or treatment which allows one’s own hair to re-grow naturally would be permissible; but to place or graft or transplant any other type of hair (real or artificial), which neither forms root nor grows naturally, would be absolutely impermissible.

 

Q-1: Hair transplant (from the back of the head is transplanted to the top and around)

Provided this transplant is from one’s own hair, and the grafting takes root and is expected to grow naturally thereafter….it would be deemed permissible.

 

Q-2:  Using a wig to hide the current hair status.

Absolutely and totally impermissible for both, the believing men and the believing women.

 

Q-3: Hair grafting (placing and fixing artificial material that looks like hair).

Absolutely and totally impermissible for both, the believing men and the believing women.

 

Whatever written of Truth and benefit is only due to Allah’s Assistance and Guidance, and whatever of error is of me alone.  Allah Alone Knows Best and He is the Only Source of Strength.

 

Your brother and well wisher in Islam,

 

 

Burhan

 

 
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