Abdullah bin Masud said, "Allah has cursed women who tattoo and those who have themselves tattooed, those who pluck their facial hair, and those who file their teeth for beauty, altering Allah's creation."Word of this reached a woman of Bani Asad called Umm Yaqub, so she came to him and said, "I have heard that you cursed such and such."He replied, "Why should I not curse those whom the Messenger of Allah ﷺ cursed, and who are mentioned in the Book of Allah?"She said, "I have read everything between the two covers, and I found nothing in it of what you say."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, "Yes, I have."He said, "Then he has indeed forbidden it."She said, "But I see your own wife doing it."He said, "Go and look for yourself."So she went and looked, and she found nothing of what she was after.He then said, "Had she been like that, I would not have remained with her."
لعن الله الواشمات والموتشمات والمتنمصات والمتفلجات للحسن المغيرات خلق الله فبلغ ذلك امرأة من بني أسد يقال لها: أم يعقوب، فجاءت فقالت: إنه بلغني أنك لعنت كيت وكيت، فقال: وما لي لا ألعن من لعن رسول الله ﷺ، ومن هو في كتاب الله، فقالت: لقد قرأت ما بين اللوحتين، فما وجدت فيه ما تقول. قال: لئن كنت قرأتيه لقد وجدتيه، أما قرأت: {وما ءاتىكم الرسول فخذوه وما نهاكم عنه فانتهوا} قالت: بلى. قال: فإنه قد نهى عنه، قالت: فإني أرى أهلك يفعلونه. قال: فاذهبي فانظري، فذهبت فنظرت، فلم تر من حاجتها شيئا، فقال: لو كانت كذلك ما جامعتها.
Bukhari narrated it in the Tafsir (4886) and Muslim in the Book of Clothing and Adornment (2125), both through the route of Mansur, from Ibrahim, from Alqama, from Abdullah bin Masud, who said, then he related it. The wording given is Bukhari's, and Muslim's wording is similar. Muslim added, "and those who pluck eyebrows." Bukhari added (4887), from another route through Mansur, "The Messenger of Allah ﷺ cursed the woman who attaches false hair."