Clip your nails

The practice: Clip fingernails and toenails.
When: Weekly grooming
In daily life: Give it a weekly slot, like Thursday evening or Friday morning, and keep the clippers in the same drawer every time. Do the kids' nails in the same sitting and the whole family is done at once.

The source

الْفِطْرَةُ خَمْسٌ ـ أَوْ خَمْسٌ مِنَ الْفِطْرَةِ ـ الْخِتَانُ، وَالاِسْتِحْدَادُ، وَنَتْفُ الإِبْطِ، وَتَقْلِيمُ الأَظْفَارِ، وَقَصُّ الشَّارِبِ ‏"‏‏.

“Allah's Messenger ﷺ said, "Five practices are characteristics of the Fitra: circumcision, shaving the pubic region, clipping the nails and cutting the moustaches short”

Narrated by Abu HurairaSahih al-Bukhari 5889

The full hadith, with its chain and grading →

Arabic: ara-bukhari · Translation: Muhsin Khan (eng-bukhari), from the eng-bukhari edition of hadith-api (public domain), sunnah.com numbering.

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Sources: Sahih al-Bukhari, Sahih Muslim, and narrations of Jami at-Tirmidhi graded sahih or hasan sahih by al-Albani.