Musnad Abi Ya'la 5141 — he said: May Allah curse the women who tattoo

It is narrated from Sayyiduna Abdullah bin Mas'ud (may Allah be pleased with him) that he said: "May Allah curse the women who tattoo and those who have themselves tattooed, those who remove hair from the face or eyebrows, and those who make artificial gaps between their teeth for beauty; they all alter the creation of Allah." The narrator says that this reached a woman of Banu Asad called Umm Ya'qub, who was a reciter of the Qur'an. She came to Sayyiduna Abdullah (may Allah be pleased with him) and said: I have been told that you have cursed the women who tattoo, those who have themselves tattooed, those who pluck their eyebrows, and those who make gaps between their teeth for beauty, who change the form created by Allah? He replied: "Why should I not curse the one whom the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) cursed, while this ruling is also in the Book of Allah?" The woman said: I have read the whole Qur'an, yet I did not find this anywhere in it. At this Sayyiduna Abdullah (may Allah be pleased with him) said: "If you had read it (carefully), you would certainly have found this ruling. Have you not read this verse: 'And whatever the Messenger gives you, take it; and whatever he forbids you, refrain from it'?" The woman said: I think that some traces of these (forbidden things) are present in your own wife. He said: "Go and see for yourself." So she went to his wife but saw no such thing there. When she came back and said that she had seen nothing there, Sayyiduna Abdullah (may Allah be pleased with him) said: "Listen! Had she been like that, she would not have remained with us (in marriage)."