Narrated Ka'b bin 'Ujara: The Prophet passed by me while I was kindling a fire under a (cooking) pot. He said, "Do the lice of your head trouble you?" I said, "Yes." So he called a barber to shave my head and ordered me to make expiation for that."
— Sahih Bukhari, Volume 7, Book 70: Patients, Hadith #569
Narrated Ka'b bin 'Ujara: The Prophet passed by me while I was kindling a fire under a (cooking) pot. He said, "Do the lice of your head trouble you?" I said, "Yes." So he called a barber to shave my head and ordered me to make expiation for that."
This hadith is from the book of Patients in Sahih Bukhari, compiled by Imam al-Bukhari. It is hadith number 569 in book 70 of volume 7.
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