Al-Kafi 8536

Translation

A number of our companions, from Ahmad Bin Muhammad Bin Isa, from Ahmad Bin Muhammad Bin Abu Nasr, from Haroun Bin Al Jaham, from Muhammad Bini Muslim, (It has been narrated) from Abu Abdullah^asws having said: ‘When the women emigrated to Rasool-Allah^saww, a woman called Umm Habbeb emigrated along with them, and she was a female circumciser, circumcising the girls. So when Rasool-Allah^saww saw her, said to her: ‘O Umm Habeeb! The work which has been in your hands, is it in your hands today (as well)?’ She said, ‘Yes, O Rasool-Allah^saww, unless it happens to be Prohibited, so forbid me from it’. So he^saww said: ‘No, but (it is) Permissible, so approach me^saww until I^saww teach you’. She said, ‘So I approached him^saww, so he^saww said: ‘O Umm Habeeb! Whenever you perform it, so do not overdo it, i.e., do not uproot it (entirely) but to rather scrape it, for it is brightening for the surface and more pleasurable in the presence of the husband’. He^asws said: ‘And there was a sister for Umm Habeeb called Umm Atiyya, and she was a ladies maid, meaning a hairdresser. So when Umm Habeeb left to go to her sister, she informed her with what Rasool-Allah^saww had said to her. So Umm Atiyya came over to the Prophet^saww and informed him^saww with what her sister had said to her. So Rasool-Allah^saww said to her: ‘Approach me^saww, O Umm Atiyya! Whenever you attend to the girl, so do not wash her face with a rag, for the rag absorbs the water of the face’.

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