He ﷺ likewise said, “Clip the moustaches, let the beards grow, and differ from the Magians.” [Muslim]
Abū Shāmah—may Allah have mercy on him—remarked, “A people have now appeared who actually shave off their beards, and that is worse than what is reported of the Magians, for they merely used to trim them.”
Note:
Know—may Allah have mercy on you—that the fact some of today’s idolaters keep their beards does not invalidate the reasoning behind this ruling, for two reasons:
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Shaving the beard is the regular practice of most of them, and this innovation reached us only through them.
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As for those among them who do grow their beards, whether considering it a mark of manliness and vigor or in imitation of their prophets, their natural disposition on this point has remained sound, and in this aspect they coincide with our law.