The adhan of a clean-shaven man: textual evidence

Question

Just as you wrote, with reference to Sharh ‘Uqud, on the issue of collective Qur’an recitation, so that those who objected have now fallen silent — in the same way [please confirm]: the adhan of one who shaves his beard, or keeps it contrary to the Sunna, is makruh and must be repeated. If you would write down the reference for this, it would silence the objector of little knowledge.

Answer

[ar]يحرم على الرجل قطع لحيته (الدر المختار).[/ar] “It is forbidden (haram) for a man to cut off his beard” (al-Durr al-Mukhtar). [ar]وأما الأخذ منها وهي دون ذلك — أي دون القبضة — كما يفعله بعض المغاربة ومخنثة الرجال فلم يبحه أحد، وأخذ كلها كما يفعل يهود الهند ومجوس الأعاجم قبيح (الدر المختار).[/ar] “As for trimming it while it is less than that — i.e.

Source: Fatawa Mahmudiyya

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