Hair transplant.
Mu' meneen Brothers and Sisters,
As Salaam Aleikum wa Rahmatullahi wa Barakatuh.
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"Is
hair transplant permissible in Islam?"
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Answer:
Hair transplant
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. And Allah Alone Knows Best.
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