لَمَّا هَاجَرْنَ النِّسَاءُ إِلَى رَسُولِ اللَّهِ ( صلى الله عليه وآله ) هَاجَرَتْ فِيهِنَّ امْرَأَةٌ يُقَالُ لَهَا أُمُّ حَبِيبٍ وَ كَانَتْ خَافِضَةً تَخْفِضُ الْجَوَارِيَ فَلَمَّا رَآهَا رَسُولُ اللَّهِ ( صلى الله عليه وآله ) قَالَ لَهَا يَا أُمَّ حَبِيبٍ الْعَمَلُ الَّذِي كَانَ فِي يَدِكِ هُوَ فِي يَدِكِ الْيَوْمَ قَالَتْ نَعَمْ يَا رَسُولَ اللَّهِ إِلَّا أَنْ يَكُونَ حَرَاماً فَتَنْهَانِي عَنْهُ قَالَ لَا بَلْ حَلَالٌ فَادْنِي مِنِّي حَتَّى أُعَلِّمَكِ قَالَتْ فَدَنَوْتُ مِنْهُ فَقَالَ يَا أُمَّ حَبِيبٍ إِذَا أَنْتِ فَعَلْتِ فَلَا تَنْهَكِي أَيْ لَا تَسْتَأْصِلِي وَ أَشِمِّي فَإِنَّهُ أَشْرَقُ لِلْوَجْهِ وَ أَحْظَى عِنْدَ الزَّوْجِ .
Translation
A number of our companions, from Ahmad Bin Muhammad Bin Isa, from Ahmad Bin Muhammad Bin Abu Nasr, from Haroun Bin Al Jahm, from Muhammad Bin Muslim, (It has been narrated) from Abu Abdullah<sup>asws</sup> having said: ‘When the women emigrated to Rasool-Allah<sup>saww</sup>, there emigrated among them a woman called Umm Habeeb, and she used to cut (the genitals) of the girls. So when Rasool-Allah<sup>saww</sup> saw her, said to her: ‘O Umm Habeeb! The work which was in your hands, it is in your hands today’. She said, ‘Yes, O Rasool-Allah<sup>saww</sup>, except if it happens to be Prohibited, so forbid me from it’. He<sup>saww</sup> said: ‘No, but it is Permissible. So come closer until I<sup>saww</sup> teach you’. So she went closer to him<sup>saww</sup>. So he<sup>saww</sup> said: ‘O Umm Habbeb! When you do it, so do not overdo it, i.e. do not amputate it, and (only) snip it, for it is shinier for the face, and more pleasurable in the presence of the husband’.
Compiled by Shaykh Muhammad ibn Ya'qub al-Kulayni
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