Weak Hadith About Beards

Hadith: “My Lord commanded me to grow my beard”

This narration is weak: ضعيف

It is narrated by Ibn Bushran:
وقال ابن بشران في ” أماليه ” (128) :
أَخْبَرَنَا أَبُو عَبْدِ اللَّهِ مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ يَزِيدَ بْنِ عَلِيِّ بْنِ مَرْوَانَ الْأَنْصَارِيُّ الْأَبْزَارِيُّ بِالْكُوفَةِ ، قَالَ : ثنا مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ عَبْدِ اللَّهِ الْأَنْصَارِيُّ الْأُبَيْسِيُّ ، ثنا أَحْمَدُ بْنُ مُحَمَّدٍ الْأَنْصَارِيُّ ، ثنا مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ يَحْيَى ، ثنا عِصْمَةُ بْنُ مُحَمَّدٍ ، عَنْ يَحْيَى بْنِ سَعِيدٍ ، عَنْ سَعِيدِ بْنِ الْمُسَيِّبِ ، عَنْ أَبِي هُرَيْرَةَ ، قَالَ : ” دَخَلَ عَلَى رَسُولِ اللَّهِ صَلَّى اللَّهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ مَجُوسِيُّ قَدْ حَلَقَ لِحْيَتَهُ وَأَعْفَى شَارِبَهُ ، فَقَالَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ صَلَّى اللَّهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ: ( وَيْحَكَ ، مَنْ أَمَرَكَ بِهَذَا ؟ ) ، قَالَ: أَمَرَنِي بِهِ كِسْرَى ، فَقَالَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ صَلَّى اللَّهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ : ( لَكِنِّي أَمَرَنِي رَبِّي عَزَّ وَجَلَّ أَنْ أُعْفِيَ لِحْيَتِي، وَأَنْ أُحْفِيَ شَارِبِي ) .
“A person from the Zoroastrians [from Persia] came to the Prophet. He had shaved his beard but kept his moustache. The Prophet said to him: Woe to you ! Who commands you to do so?” He replied: “Thus our Lord commands us – Kisra.” The Prophet then said: “But my Lord commanded me to grow a beard and to cut mustache”
[‘Al-Amali’, 128].

This is the marfu’ version, which goes via Abu Hurairah to the Prophet, but it is weak, because of the narrator: ‘Isma bin Mohammad

About him, the scholars said:

Abu Haatim said that he is not strong: ليس بقوي

Al-Daraqutni said that he is rejected: متروك

Ibn ‘Uday said all his narrations are odd and he is rejected in Hadith: كل حديثه غير محفوظ وهو منكر الحديث

Al-‘Uqayli said that he narrates false narrations attributing them to reliable narrations and that his Ahadith should not be relied upon: يحدث بالبواطيل عن الثقات، ليس ممن يكتب حديثه إلا على جهة الاعتبار

Dhahabi accused him of narrating false Ahadith: الذهبي : ذكر له حديثين، وقال: من باطله

Ibn Sa’d said he’s weak: ضعيف عندهم في الحديث

Yahya Ibn Ma’een said he is a liar and fabricates Ahadith: كان كذابا يروى أحاديث كذبا من أكذب الناس ومرة كذاب يضع الحديث

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It has been narrated via some Mursal chains, some of which are authentic and others weak, but they don’t reach to the Prophet.

There are other authentic narrations in which the Prophet tells the believers to keep their beards, but the jurists disagree about whether it is an obligation or an encouragement, see here: https://www.facebook.com/mohmand.laghmani/posts/10160325405683496

Allaahu A’alam