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35 What is the Sunnah way to trim nails and on which days should nails be trimmed?
The Sunnah way of trimming nails is to start trimming nails from the index finger (Shahadat) of the right hand and work your way down to the pinkie finger.
Then proceed to the left hand starting from pinkie finger and finishing up at thumb. Finally the thumb of right hand should be trimmed. There is no sequence has been mentioned for trimming feet nail though it is better to use the same sequence used as above. This is mentioned in Bahare Shariat (part 16, page 196) and Fatawae Alamgeri (part 5, page 358).

There is no prohibition regarding the days to avoid trimming nails. Whichever day the nails are trimmed is fine because there is no Hadith about prescribed days.

However in some Zaeef (weak) Hadith Wednesdays is prohibited for trimming nails.

Therefore if Wednesday is the day of Wajoob (Wajib to perform nail trimming).

For example if a person has not trimmed nails for 39 days and 40th day is on Wednesday and if he/she does not trim nails on Wednesday than 40 days would be completed. Then it will be Wajib on him/her to trim nails on Wednesday because it is prohibited and Makrooh-e-Tehreemi to exceed 40 days without trimming nails.
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