Hadith 111

Al Kafi – The number, from Ibn Isa, from Al Bazanty, from Haroun Bin Al Jahm, from Muhammad Bin Muslim, ‘From Abu Abdullah-asws having said: ‘‘When the women emigrated to Rasool-Allah-saww, a woman called Umm Habeeb emigrated along with them, and she was a female circumciser, circumcising the girls. 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’. 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. Umm Atiyya came over to the Prophet-saww and informed him-saww with what her sister had said to her. 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’’. [113]