"Allah has cursed the women who tattoo and those who have themselves tattooed, those who pluck hair from their faces, and those who file their teeth for beauty, altering what Allah has created."A woman in the house called Umm Yaqub heard about this. She came to him and said, "I have been told that you said such and such."He replied, "Why should I not curse those whom the Messenger of Allah ﷺ cursed, and who are cursed in the Book of Allah?"She said, "I have read what is between its two covers and I have not found it there."He answered, "If you had truly read it, you would have found it. Have you not read 'Whatever the Messenger gives you, take it, and whatever he forbids you, refrain from it' [Hashr 59:7]?"She said, "Of course."He said, "The Prophet ﷺ forbade it."She said, "I suspect your own wife does these things."He said, "Go and look."So she went and inspected, but found nothing of what she was looking for. She came back and said, "I saw nothing."He said, "If she were like that, she would not be living with us."The narrator said, I also heard it from Abdul-Rahman bin Abis, who narrated it from Umm Yaqub, having heard it from her directly, but I chose the narration of Mansur.
حدثنا عبد الرحمن حدثنا سفيان عن منصور عن إبراهيم عن علقمة
لعن الله الواشمات والمتوشمات والمتنمصات والمتفلجات للحسن المغيرات خلق الله قال فبلغ امرأة في البيت يقال لها أم يعقوب فجاءت إليه فقالت بلغني أنك قلت كيت وكيت فقال ما لي لا ألعن من لعن رسول الله ﷺ في كتاب الله عز وجل فقالت إني لأقرأ ما بين لوحيه فما وجدته فقال إن كنت قرأتيه فقد وجدتيه أما قرأت {ما آتاكم الرسول فخذوه وما نهاكم عنه فانتهوا} قالت بلى قال فإن النبي ﷺ نهى عنه قالت إني لأظن أهلك يفعلون قال اذهبي فانظري فنظرت فلم تر من حاجتها شيئا فجاءت فقالت ما رأيت شيئا قال لو كانت كذلك لم تجامعنا قال وسمعته من عبد الرحمن بن عابس يحدثه عن أم يعقوب سمعه منها فاخترت حديث منصور
Its two chains are sahih. Bukhari related it via the route of Mansur, 8:483–484, from Muhammad bin Yusuf, from Sufyan, from Mansur. He then related the route of Abdul-Rahman bin Aabis after it, from Ibn Madini, from Abdul-Rahman bin Mahdi, from Sufyan, who said, "I mentioned to Abdul-Rahman bin Aabis the hadith of Mansur, from Ibrahim, from Alqama, from Abdullah." He said, "I heard it from a woman called Umm Yaqub, from Abdullah, similar to the hadith of Mansur."This Umm Yaqub, her name is not known. Hafiz said in Taqrib, "It seems she was a companion." He said in Fath al-Bari, 10:314, "A note of caution, the Umm Yaqub mentioned in this hadith, her name is not known. She was from Banu Assad bin Khuzayma, and I have not come across a biography for her. Her consulting Ibn Masud indicates that she had some awareness, and in any case she is trustworthy, since she was either a companion or an early successor, and no criticism has been recorded against her. Bukhari cited her narration in his Sahih, and that alone is sufficient as a validation of her reliability."The hadith via the route of Mansur was related by Bukhari repeatedly in the Book of Clothing, including the place we referred to. Muslim related it, 2:166, and Nasai related part of it, 2:281. See also 3881, 3945, 3956, 4230.