Musannaf Ibn Abi Shaybah 1195 — Applying depilatory lime

Abdullah bin Shaddad said: (Allah Almighty says:) "But when she saw it, she thought it was a body of water and uncovered her shins" [al-Naml: 44]. There was a great deal of hair on Bilqis's shins. Sayyiduna Sulayman (peace be upon him) asked: How can this hair be removed? The people told him: With depilatory lime (nurah). From then on, nurah came to be used to remove hair.