The Ruling on the Qazaʿ Haircut
Shaykh Muḥammad ibn Ṣāliḥ al-ʿUthaymīn (d. 1421 AH) said:
Al-Qazaʿ which is to shave some of the head and leave the rest is disliked [makrūh].
This [action] is of different types:
To shave indiscriminately: from the right and left sides, from the back and from the forehead [while still leaving some hair].
To shave the top of the head and leave the sides.
To shave the sides and leave the top. Imām Ibn al-Qayyim (raḥimahullāh) said [concerning this act]: “As is the practice of many of the bottom-feeders (and riffraff).”1
To shave [the hair closest] to the forehead and leave the rest.
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