Authentic. It was narrated by al-Bukhārī (4/102), as well as Muslim (6/168), al-Nasā’ī (2/293), and Ahmad (4/101), from Saīd ibn al-Musayyib. The other narration, however, is not from Saīd; rather, it is the hadith of Humayd ibn Abd al-Rahmān ibn Awf, who reported that, in the year Muāwiya ibn Abī Sufyān performed Hajj, he heard him speaking from the pulpit. Taking a lock of hair that was in the hand of one of his guards, he said: “Where are your scholars?…” It was narrated by al-Bukhārī (4/101), Muslim, al-Nasā’ī, and Ahmad (4/95, 97–98). In another of Ahmad’s narrations (4/93), through Qatāda from Saīd ibn al-Musayyib, Muāwiya said one day: “You have introduced an evil fashion, and the Prophet of Allah—may Allah bless him and grant him peace—forbade falsehood.” He said: “A man then came carrying a staff with a rag at its top.” Muāwiya said: “Indeed, this is falsehood.” Qatāda said: “He meant the rags women use to make their hair appear fuller.” Muslim also narrated it (6/168), and this is his wording.

I say: This narration explicitly establishes that attaching to the hair something other than hair, such as a rag or the like, falls under the prohibition—contrary to the position adopted by the author, may Allah preserve him. Perhaps he was unaware of this narration. This is also supported by a hadith from Jābir ibn Abd Allah, as I shall mention two hadiths later.

(Note) In al-Jāmi, al-Suyūtī attributed the hadith, “He forbade falsehood,” solely to al-Nasā’ī, from Muāwiya. The shortcoming in this is evident!

101 — (The hadith: “Whoever deceives us is not one of us.”) p. 89

Authentic. It was narrated from a number of the Companions by Muslim and other compilers of the Sunan collections