Al-Kafi 7151

Translation

One of our companions, from Ibn Jamhour, from Muhammad Bin Al Qasim, from Abdullah Bin Abu Yafour who said, ‘We were in Al-Medina, so Zurara disputed with me regarding plucking of the armpit and shaving it’. So I said, ‘Shaving it is better’, and Zurara said, plucking it is better’. So I sought permission for us to see Abu Abdullah^asws, so he^asws permitted us, and he^asws was in the bathhouse having waxed, and he^asws had waxed his^asws armpits. So I said to Zurara, ‘Does it suffice you?’ He said, ‘No, maybe this deed is for him^asws, and it may not be allowed for me that I should do it’. So he^asws said: ‘In what (discussion) are you two?’ So I said, ‘Zurara is disputing with me regarding plucking the armpit and shaving it. I said shaving is better, and Zurara said plucking is better’. So he^asws said: ‘You have hit the Sunnah and Zurara has erred. Shaving it is better than plucking it, and waxing it is better than shaving it’. Then he^asws said to us: ‘Get the waxing done’. So we said, ‘We did that three days ago’. So he^asws said: ‘Repeat it, for the waxing is cleanliness’.

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