Incident from the life of Shaykh Ibn Uthaymeen(Rahimullah),respected, very knowledgeable and popular scholar of Saudia Arabia:
He refused chemotherapy for Beard
"Will I loose my beard?"
During the last months of Sheikh Ibn Uthaymeen's, rahimahullah, life he travelled to Rochester, Minnesota's Mayo clinic, to seek treatment for his cancer.
They told him that chemotherapy would prolong his life and informed him the side effect of losing his hair.
He asked: "Will I lose my beard?"
They said: "Yes."
He returned to Al-Qassim refusing the treatment because he could not see himself meeting Allah without a beard.