Are Brushes That Are Made of Horse Bristles Permissible? – Mawlana Ilyas Patel
Hanafi Fiqh
Answered by Mawlana Ilyas Patel
Question
I recently purchased a horse bristle beard brush to avoid impermissible boar bristle brushes. Still, now I wonder if the horse bristles are also impermissible. Also, what is the ruling on other animal bristles and leather products?
Answer
In the Name of Allah, the Most Merciful and Compassionate
I pray you are in good faith and health. Thank you for your question.
Yes, using brushes from animal hair other than a pig is permitted. This reasoning is because the hair, bones, claws, nails, and horns of dead animals (other than pigs) are pure (Tahir) in the Hanafi school.
The hair of dead animals other than the pig, according to the position of our school and their bones, ligaments, claws, and horns – when these are free of the fat on their ends – and likewise everything from them through which blood doesn’t flow is pure.” [Ibn ʿAbidin, Radd al-Muhtar]
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[Mawlana] Ilyas Patel
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Mawlana Ilyas Patel is a traditionally-trained scholar who has studied within UK, India, Pakistan, Syria, Jordan and Turkey.
He started his early education in UK. He went onto complete hifz of Qur’an in India, then enrolled into an Islamic seminary in UK where he studied the secular and Alimiyyah sciences. He then travelled to Karachi, Pakistan.
He has been an Imam in Rep of Ireland for a number of years. He has taught hifz of the Qur’an, Tajwid, Fiqh and many other Islamic sciences to both children and adults onsite and online extensively in UK and Ireland. He was teaching at a local Islamic seminary for 12 years in the UK where he was a librarian and a teacher of Islamic sciences.
He currently resides in UK with his wife. His personal interest is love of books and gardening.
