Is it permissible to use brushes that are made of animal hair other than pig?

Walaikum assalam wa rahmatullah,

I pray that this finds you well, and in the best of health and spirits. May Allah grant you all good and success in this life and the next.

Yes, it is permitted to use brushes from animal hair, other than pig. This is because the hair, bones, claws, nails, and horns of dead animals (other than pig) are pure (tahir) in the Hanafi school.

Imam Tumurtashi states in Tanwir al-Absar, "The hair of dead animals [H: other than pig, according to the position of our school], and their bones, ligaments, claws, and horns--when these are free of the fat on their ends--and likewise everything from them through which blood doesn't flow... is pure." [Tumurtashi, Tanwir al-Absar; with comment (H) from Haskafi, al-Durr al-Mukhtar; Ibn Abidin concurred in his supercommentary, Radd al-Muhtar]

And Allah alone gives success.

Faraz Rabbani

 

( وشعر الميتة ) غير الخنزير على المذهب ( وعظمها وعصبها ) على المشهور ( وحافرها وقرنها ) الخالية عن الدسومة وكذا كل ما لا تحله الحياة حتى الإنفحة واللبن على الراجح

( وشعر الإنسان ) غير المنتوف ( وعظمه ) وسنه مطلقا على المذهب . واختلف في أذنه , ففي البدائع نجسة , وفي الخانية لا , وفي الأشباه : المنفصل من الحي كميتته إلا في حق صاحبه فطاهر وإن كثر . ويفسد الماء بوقوع قدر الظفر من جلده لا بالظفر ( ودم سمك طاهر )