مسند امام احمد بن حنبل · Hadith 4129

It was narrated that 'Abdullah said: May Allah curse the women who do tattoos and the women who have tattoos done, the women who pluck facial hair, the women who file teeth for the purpose of beautification, who change the creation of Allah. News of that reached a woman in the house who was called Umm Ya'qoob. She came to him and said: I heard that you said such and such. He said: What should I not curse those whom the Messenger of Allah (PBUH) cursed in the Book of Allah? She said: I have read what is between the covers (of the Mushaj) and I did not find it. He said: If you had read it, you would have found it. Have you not read (the words) "And whatsoever the Messenger (Muhammad (PBUH)) gives you, take it; and whatsoever he forbids you, abstain (from it)" [al-Hashr 59:7]? She said: Yes indeed. He said: The Prophet (PBUH) forbade that. She said: I think your family do that. He said: Go and look. So she looked, but she did not see anything, so she came and said: I did not see anything. He said: If that were the case, she would not stay with us. He said: I heard it from 'Abdur- Rahman bin 'Abis, who narrated from Umm Ya'qoob, from whom he heard it, but I chose the hadeeth of Mansoor.