Sayyiduna ‘Umar bin ‘Absah (may Allah be pleased with him) narrates that the Noble Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) said: Whoever grows old in the way of Allah, then this whiteness of old age will become light for him on the Day of Resurrection.

Sayyiduna Zubair bin Al-Awwam (may Allah be pleased with him) narrates that the Noble Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) said: Change the whiteness of your hair and do not imitate the Jews.

Sayyiduna Abu Hurairah (may Allah be pleased with him) narrates that the Noble Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) said: Change the white hairs and do not imitate the Jews and Christians.

Sayyiduna Abu Hurairah (may Allah be pleased with him) narrates that the Noble Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "The Jews and Christians do not dye their hair, so you should oppose them." Imam Zuhri said: "The Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) commanded the use of dye, and the color I like most is deep black." Imam Zuhri himself used to apply black dye.

Sayyiduna Abu Rimthah (may Allah be pleased with him) narrates that the Noble Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) used to dye his hair with henna and katam (a plant), and his hair would reach his shoulders.

It is narrated from Sayyiduna Abu Rimtha (may Allah be pleased with him) that I performed Hajj and saw a man in the shade of the Ka'bah. My father said to me: Do you know who this man is? This is the Noble Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him). When we reached him, we saw that the hair of the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) was up to his ears and there were traces of henna on his hair, and the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) was wearing two green sheets. I saw that his white hair appeared red due to the henna.

Usman bin Abdullah says: I went to Umm al-Mu'mineen Sayyida Umm Salamah (may Allah be pleased with her), and she brought out some hair of the Noble Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him); it was dyed with henna and katam.

Sayyiduna Abu Dharr (may Allah be pleased with him) narrates that the Noble Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) said: The best thing with which you can change these white hairs is henna and katam.

It is narrated from Sayyiduna Hakam bin Amr Ghafari, may Allah be pleased with him, who says: My brother Rafi’ bin Amr and I went to the Commander of the Faithful, Sayyiduna Umar bin Khattab, may Allah be pleased with him. I had dyed my hair with henna and my brother had dyed his hair with a yellow color. Sayyiduna Umar, may Allah be pleased with him, said to me: This is the Islamic color, and to my brother Rafi’, he said: This is the color of faith.

Humaid says that it was asked from Sayyiduna Anas (may Allah be pleased with him) whether the Prophet Muhammad (peace and blessings be upon him) used to dye his hair. He said: In the beginning of his blessed beard, not more than seventeen or twenty white hairs could be seen; the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) remained free from the defect of old age’s white hair. Someone asked Sayyiduna Anas (may Allah be pleased with him) whether white hair of old age is a defect. He said: You simply do not like it, however, Sayyiduna Abu Bakr (may Allah be pleased with him) used to dye his hair with henna and katam, and Sayyiduna Umar (may Allah be pleased with him) used to dye his hair with henna.