Short answer
No. A man may trim a few long or stray hairs and clear a unibrow, but plucking, threading or waxing his eyebrows into a shape is not allowed. It falls under the hadith on namas, and it copies a women's beauty practice.
Shaping the eyebrows is haram for men as it is for women, with the added sin of imitating women (tashabbuh). Trimming overlong hairs back to a normal look and removing the hair between the brows are permissible.
The four schools agree on this.
Explanation
The hadith on namas names women because shaping the brows was a women's practice. The scholars apply it to men too, for two reasons. The reason the hadith gives, changing the creation of Allah for beauty, applies to anyone. And Ibn Abbas reported that the Prophet ﷺ cursed men who imitate women, which makes it worse for a man.
The Hanafi texts set the line clearly: there is no harm in a man taking from his eyebrows and the hair of his face, as long as he does not end up looking like the effeminate. So tidying is fine, while a groomed, arched or thinned look is not.
- Fine: trimming long hairs that stick out or fall into the eyes, and removing a unibrow.
- Not fine: plucking or threading the underside or top of the brow to shape it, waxing an arch, or cutting slits into it.
- At the barber: many barbers thread or wax brows as part of a cut. Ask them to clear only the middle and trim long hairs, or skip it.
If you have had your brows shaped, simply let them grow back and repent; it does not affect your wudu or prayer. See also removing a unibrow, trimming eyebrows and can Muslim men wear makeup.
The evidence
Quran, Surah An-Nisaa 4:119
وَلَأُضِلَّنَّهُمْ وَلَأُمَنِّيَنَّهُمْ وَلَءَامُرَنَّهُمْ فَلَيُبَتِّكُنَّ ءَاذَانَ ٱلْأَنْعَٰمِ وَلَءَامُرَنَّهُمْ فَلَيُغَيِّرُنَّ خَلْقَ ٱللَّهِ ۚ وَمَن يَتَّخِذِ ٱلشَّيْطَٰنَ وَلِيًّۭا مِّن دُونِ ٱللَّهِ فَقَدْ خَسِرَ خُسْرَانًۭا مُّبِينًۭا ﴿١١٩﴾
And I will mislead them, and I will arouse in them [sinful] desires, and I will command them so they will slit the ears of cattle, and I will command them so they will change the creation of Allah." And whoever takes Satan as an ally instead of Allah has certainly sustained a clear loss.
Satan's promise to make people change Allah's creation, the reason the scholars give for the ruling on namas.
Sahih al-Bukhari 4886
Sahih... والمتنمصات والمتفلجات للحسن المغيرات خلق الله ...
"Allah has cursed the women who tattoo and have tattoos done, who pluck their eyebrows, and who file gaps in their teeth for beauty, changing the creation of Allah."
Ibn Mas'ud's report of the curse on namas (plucking or reshaping the eyebrows), which he said the Prophet ﷺ had cursed.
Sahih al-Bukhari 5885
Sahih... المتشبهين من الرجال بالنساء والمتشبهات من النساء بالرجال ...
"The Messenger of Allah cursed men who imitate women and women who imitate men."
Ibn Abbas's report that imitating the other sex in dress and grooming is a major sin.
Where the ruling is recorded
- al-Fatawa al-Hindiyya, Kitab al-Karahiyya, chapter on circumcision, hair and nails. A man may take from his eyebrows and face hair as long as he does not resemble the effeminate.
- al-Durr al-Mukhtar with Radd al-Muhtar, Kitab al-Hazr wa al-Ibaha, section on looking and touching. On namas and the reason behind its prohibition.
Checked by our team. For a more accurate answer to your own situation, consult a scholar. Quran translation by Sahih International. Hadith Arabic from the standard editions of the six books and the Muwatta, with gradings as recorded there; the English is our own rendering. Spotted a mistake? Tell us.