Is it permissible to pluck grey hair?

In the Name of Allah, the Most Gracious, the Most Merciful.

As-salāmu ‘alaykum wa-rahmatullāhi wa-barakātuh.

It is disliked to pluck one’s grey or white hair.[1] Nabī Sallallāhu Alaihi Wa Sallam has stated:

لَا تَنْتِفُوا الشَّيْبَ، مَا مِنْ مُسْلِمٍ يَشِيبُ شَيْبَةً فِي الْإِسْلَامِ - قَالَ عَنْ سُفْيَانَ: «إِلَّا كَانَتْ لَهُ نُورًا يَوْمَ الْقِيَامَةِ» (سنن أبي داود، باب: في نتف الشيب)

Do not pluck white hair. Whichever Muslim grows white hair in Islām, it will be Nūr (celestial light) for him on the Day of Judgment. (Sunan Abī Dāwūd)

However, if a young person has grey or white hair, it is permissible to pluck such hair as white and grey hair before its time is a defect. It is permissible to remove a defect.[2]

And Allah Ta’āla Knows Best

Abdul Azīm bin Abdur Rahman,
Student Darul Iftaa
U.S.A.

Checked and Approved by,
Mufti Ebrahim Desai.

(2020-06-14)