Zaid b. Arqam reported God’s messenger as saying, “He who does not take something off his moustache is not one of us.”
Ahmad, Tirmidhi and Nasa'i transmitted it.
Ibn ‘Abbas said the Prophet used to clip or take something off his moustache, and Abraham the friend of the Compassionate One used to do it.
Tirmidhi transmitted it.
‘Amr b. Shu'aib; on his father's authority, said his grandfather told that the Prophet used to take something off the side and the bottom of his beard.
Tirmidhi transmitted it, saying this is a gharib tradition.
Nafi' said that when Ibn ‘Umar perfumed himself he used aloes-wood mixed with no other perfume, and also used camphor which he mixed in with the aloes-wood. Then he said that God’s messenger had perfumed himself thus.
Muslim transmitted it.
