Sayyiduna Ibn Mas'ud (may Allah be pleased with him) used to say that Allah's curse is upon the woman who plucks hair and the one who gets it plucked, the one who tattoos and the one who files her teeth for beauty. When a woman named Umm Ya'qub came to know of this, she came to him and said, "I have heard that you say this?" He replied, "Why should I not curse those whom the Prophet (peace be upon him) has cursed in the light of the Book of Allah?" The woman said, "By Allah! I have thoroughly examined the Mushaf between the two covers, and I have not found this command anywhere in it." Sayyiduna Ibn Mas'ud (may Allah be pleased with him) asked, "Did you find this verse in it: «﴿وَمَا آتَاكُمُ الرَّسُولُ فَخُذُوهُ وَمَا نَهَاكُمْ عَنْهُ فَانْتَهُوا﴾» [الحشر: 7] 'Whatever the Messenger gives you, take it, and whatever he forbids you from, abstain from it'?" She said, "Yes!" He said, "Then the Prophet (peace be upon him) has forbidden these things." The woman said, "What if the women of your household do this?" Sayyiduna Ibn Mas'ud (may Allah be pleased with him) replied, "Go and see." The woman went to his house, then came back and said, "I did not find anything objectionable there." He said, "If it were so, my wife could not remain with me."