manifests to us by means of him , and because of that it is obligatory for us to follow in his footsteps”. 60 7). A woman came to ʿAbdullāh bin Masʿūd and she said, “I have heard news that you forbid women from attaching wigs?” ʿAbdullāh bin Masʿūd answered, “Yes!” The woman asked, “Is that prohibition in the Book of Allāh (Al Qurʾān) or did you hear it (directly) from the Messenger ?” ʿAbdullāh bin Masʿūd answered, “I found (that prohibition) within the Book of Allāh and from the sayings of the Messenger of Allāh ”. The woman said again, “By Allāh, I have read the pages of Al Qurʾān from the beginning to the end, and yet I was unable to find that prohibition”. Ibnu Masʿūd said, “Is there not in it an ayāh (that states)” ‘And whatever the Messenger gives you, take it, and whatsoever he forbids you, abstain (from it)’”. “Yes”, answered the woman. After that Ibnu Masʿūd said, “Indeed I heard the Messenger of Allāh prohibit the plucking of hairs from the eyebrows, sharpening of the teeth, wearing of wigs, and piercing unless sick”.61 8). Muʿāwiyah once gave a khuṭbah (speech, lecture) on the minbar (rostrum), and after praising Allāh and lauding Him, he said, “O Arabs, by Allāh, were it to be that you did not implement the Sunnah of the Prophet , then other than you there will be no one to carry it out”. 62 9). Abu Naḍrah narrated from the companion ʿImrān bin Ḥusain , a person came to him and asked him about something, then ʿImrān bin Ḥusain answered him from the Sunnah of the Prophet . Then the person who had asked said, “Answer from the Book of Allāh, and don’t you answer from anything other than it!” ʿImrān bin Ḥusain said, “You are a fool…Do you find in the Qurʾān that the Ẓuhr (noon) prayer consists of four rakaʿāt (bending of the torso from an upright position, bowing) and that it is not read aloud, or about the rakaʿāt in ṣalāt, or how to calculate zakat?”, and then he said further, “Do you find all of that explained within Al Qurʾān? Know that Al Qurʾān commands, and it is As Sunnah that explains or clarifies it”. 63
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