Rihanna is facing a backlash for using an Islamic Hadith in her Savage x Fenty show

Rihanna has faced backlash for using an Islamic hadith during her Savage x Fenty fashion show.

The 32-year-old singer, full name Robyn Rihanna Fenty, has shifted attention away from her music in more recent years to focus on her ever-expanding beauty and lingerie businesses.

However, while the star has been widely praised for using a diverse range of models of all sizes and nationalities, Rihanna has been criticized for including sacred Muslim phrases in a remix that played during part of the show.

Hadiths are traditional Muslim phrases from the Prophet Muhammed that are used as guidance for those of the Islamic faith.

The song, titled "Doom," was created by London producer CouCou Chloe and uses samples of the Hadith mixed into a house beat, which played as models performed on the catwalk, and debuted on Amazon Prime Video at the start of the month.

The use of Hadith led to a number of fans criticizing Rihanna on social media.

It’s not the first time the singer has faced accusations of cultural appropriation.

In July last year, the fashion mogul was criticised for her August 2019 cover of Harper’s Bazaar China, on which she can be seen wearing a vibrant blue gown that features pleated, billowing sleeves and a bright red sash tied at her waist.

Rihanna’s beauty look is equally as elaborate with her hair fashioned to emulate traditional Chinese styles, her brows blocked with a flash of red at the front and her lips painted in red just at the centre.

Harper's Bazaar China also shared a series of images from the photo shoot on its own Instagram account, where it revealed that the idea behind the cover was to show how a “Western style icon meets Eastern aesthetic”.

Despite the magazine sharing its intentions behind the images, many people on social media accused the publication and singer of cultural appropriation.