Shaving body hair and cutting nails while in a state of major ritual impurity

A question about shaving body hair and cutting nails while in a state of major ritual impurity, in which Jordan's General Iftaa Department answered that it is recommended for such a person not to remove anything from his body until after the ritual bath, citing Shafi'i works. ¹

The questioner asked: what is the ruling on shaving body hair and cutting nails for a person in a state of major ritual impurity (janaba)? ¹

The Department answered that it is recommended for a person in a state of janaba not to remove anything from his body until after the ritual bath, quoting Bushra al-Karim bi-Sharh Masa'il al-Ta'lim (p. 135) that this is recommended for such a person because the parts return to him in the hereafter and so return in a state of impurity as a rebuke to him, after which all but the original parts fall away from him, and that it is said every hair will demand its purification. ¹ It quoted al-Shibramallisi's gloss on Nihayat al-Muhtaj (2/341) that a person who wishes to combine shaving and bathing on Friday while in a state of impurity should delay the shaving until after the bath, so that the bath removes the trace of impurity from the hair. ¹

Jordan's General Iftaa Department published this fatwa on aliftaa.jo as no. 4526, dated 2 November 2026, in the category of the ritual bath, as a short fatwa. ¹ The museum records this text as a historical document attributed to the body or scholar that issued it; it issues no ruling of its own.