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|Title=Hufaad
|Text='''e4.3''' Circumcision is obligatory (for every male and female) by cutting off the piece of [[skin ]] on the glans of the penis of the male, but circumcision of the female is by cutting out the [[clitoris]] (this is called Hufaad)
|Author=Ahmad ibn Naqib al-Misri
|Source=
Al-Haafiz ibn Hajar (may Allaah have mercy on him) said: What is meant by this metaphor is the circumcised parts of the man and the woman.
Female circumcision is done by cutting a small part of the [[skin ]] that looks like a rooster’s comb, above the exit of the [[urethra]]. The Sunnah is not to cut all of it, but rather a part of it. Al-Mawsoo’ah al-Fiqhiyyah (19/28).
The Shaafa’is, the Hanbalis according to the well-known view of their madhhab, and others are of the view that '''circumcising women is obligatory'''. Many scholars are of the view that it is not obligatory in the case of women; rather '''it is Sunnah and is an honour for them'''.