Editing Beard (section)

==== Sunni ====
[[File:Elderly Man with Hennaed Beard - Old City - Dhaka - Bangladesh (12850630365).jpg|thumb|upright|An elderly [[Bengalis|Bengali]] man with a beard dyed in [[henna]].]]

In [[Sunni Islam|Sunnī]] [[Islamic jurisprudence]], there are three scholarly opinions on the beard according to the [[Sunnah|Islamic tradition]] (''sunnah'').

The first one is that growing the beard is obligatory and that shaving it is ''[[haram]]'' (forbidden) with the main source for this position being this narration: ''[[Sahih Bukhari]]'', Book 72, Hadith #781 ([[USC-MSA]]), narrated by [[Abd Allah ibn Umar ibn al-Khattab|Ibn ʿUmar]]: Allah's Apostle said, "Cut the moustaches short and leave the beard (as it is)."<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.usc.edu/org/cmje/religious-texts/hadith/bukhari/072-sbt.php |title=Center for Muslim-Jewish Engagement |access-date=2019-01-10 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160417050422/http://www.usc.edu/org/cmje/religious-texts/hadith/bukhari/072-sbt.php |archive-date=2016-04-17 |url-status=dead }}</ref>

The second one, which is the official position of the [[Shafiʽi school|Shāfiʿī]] school of Islamic jurisprudence, asserts that the beard is only ''[[mustahabb]]'' (recommended), and shaving the beard is only ''[[makruh]]'' (disliked), but not ''[[haram]]'' (forbidden).<ref>{{Cite web |date=2022-06-09 |title=Fatawa - The ruling of keeping the beard? |url=https://www.dar-alifta.org/Foreign/ViewFatwa.aspx?ID=5968 |access-date=2022-06-09 |website= |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220609111918/https://www.dar-alifta.org/Foreign/ViewFatwa.aspx?ID=5968 |archive-date=9 June 2022 |url-status=dead}}</ref>

The third one among some contemporary [[Ulama|Sunnī Muslim scholars]], such as the [[Grand Mufti of Egypt]] [[Shawki Allam]], is that keeping the beard is permissible and that shaving it is also permissible.<ref>{{cite news |date=24 October 2018 |url=https://egyptindependent.com/beard-is-just-an-appearance-grand-mufti/ |title=Beard is just an appearance: Grand Mufti |work=[[Egypt Independent]] |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220609113747/https://egyptindependent.com/beard-is-just-an-appearance-grand-mufti/ |archive-date=9 June 2022 |url-status=dead |access-date=7 June 2024}}</ref>