Recordings › On Women Wearing Perfume: Debunking Weak and Blasphemous Hadith -Mufti Abu Layth · 4 May 2018 › Segment 2 of 6
Is the hadith about women wearing perfume being zaniya authentic?
hadeeth ahadith ahaadeeth hadis hadees ahaadith saheeh sahih hadith saheeh hadith sound hadith imam bukhari sahih al-bukhari sahih bukhari saheeh al-bukhari saheeh bukhari imam al-bukhari imaam prayer leader muftis rawi raawi ruwat rijal asharis ashaira asha'irah ashariyyah ash'arite sahabah sahaba sahabiyyah sahabiyat 'alim aalim amanah amana amaanah amanatOne chain through Ghunaym ibn Qays and Thabit ibn Umara: why the report is not sahih
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machinesummary, machine-writtenMufti Abu Layth says the report is not authentic: every version comes through one weak narrator, Thabit ibn Umara, from the obscure Ghunaym ibn Qays, and some early authorities stopped it at the companion.
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Mufti Abu Layth says the report is widely preached from pulpits, that it is not sahih and is a lie attributed to the Prophet. He says every version rests on Abu Musa al-Ash'ari, from him only Ghunaym ibn Qays, and from him only Thabit ibn Umara, and he cites al-Darimi's teacher Abu Asim [?] of Basra as saying that some companions raised it to the Prophet while others stopped it at the companion. On Ghunaym he says some claimed he was a companion, while al-Bukhari, Ibn Abi Hatim and others said he lived in the Prophet's time but never met him; he notes that through the same chain Imam Ahmad records Abu Musa telling his companions they were the same number as the army of Talut against Goliath, which he gives as an example of the strange things transmitted this way, and that Ghunaym transmits very little. On Thabit ibn Umara he cites Abu Hatim al-Razi, Ibn Hajar, al-Dhahabi and others [?] as calling him not strong. He concludes that an isolated chain through a weak narrator from an almost unknown transmitter, which some early authorities did not attribute to the Prophet, is not a hadith.
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Mufti Abu Layth says the perfume report is not sahih and is a lie attributed to the Prophet, because it rests on a single chain through the weak Thabit ibn Umara from the little-known Ghunaym ibn Qays, and some early authorities did not attribute it to the Prophet.
“this hadith is not sorry okay it is not sorry this hadith is life life people and this is a lie attributed to the messenger of allah sallallahu alayhi wasallam”
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that looks at it every eye that looks at her sari is zania is is is also an fornicating eye and she is a fornicating woman so this is the hadith and this is quite commonly preached okay so a lot of people will sometimes under a lot of Imams and movies on their member will often teach this saying any woman that goes out wearing perfume she's an adulteress she's a fornicating woman I would like to tell you that people write this hadith that we've just
quoted here right this hadith is not sorry okay it is not sorry this hadith is life life people and this is a lie attributed to the messenger of allah sallallahu alayhi wasallam and let me go into this hadith let me go into this so first of all what I would like to highlight first of all is that this narration lets us take a look at this
narration this narration only rests on one companion this so as many of these hadith saying any woman who is perfume goes out she's an fornicating woman she is a zania any woman who wears perfume goes past people so they can smell her she's a zania any woman with perfume goes outside and any eye that looks at her she's a zania and the eyes a zania so this is all these a hadith they are all transmitted just they come through one companion just through one his name is abu musa al-ashari from him from him
just one person is meeting okay who named Ignotus from her name abilities just one person is transmitting this and his name is Thor bit ofnot Amara okay so just to remember that so these three so it's resting allegedly on abu musa al-ashari and then you've got who named abilities right who some people have claimed is a companion others said he was not a companion and we'll come to that in a moment and then from him Sabbath even Amara so it comes
through these and then there's some variation who is transmitting it there is one narration endure me now that means a book of hadith as well soon enough dar me their armies teacher whose name is Abu awesome who is known as maja asked him at the hawkish a Bernie from Basra who dies in 211 injury he's from the teachers of under me another great nada Fein he highlights this hadith why your father who borrow a subpoena
some of our companions have decided to make this have have raised this to the Prophet others did not others did not say this is the word of the Prophet okay they said that they stopped with the companion that this is the wording of maybe abu musa al-ashari or somebody but this was not the word of the prophet so our arson makes that very clear now just looking at this chain because this is the popular hadith that we've got going around everywhere so let's just take a
look first of all at who named in the face okay now who named him the face some people because he's transmitting from abu musa al-ashari some people said that he is a companion others like it nahin ban even assad Albahari it not be hard even Amanda Abu no I mean all these people said he is not a sahabi of the messenger of allah so there's a difference of opinion many of these people like Bihari and all these people if not be had him did not accept him as a companion they said he may have been alive at the time of the Prophet but he never
actually met or saw the Prophet despite what some people have claimed now he also this same chain from him or transmitted some strange things so one example that Imam Ahmed brings from his same students Herbet from him who named him saying that with the same companion abu musa al-ashari that one day we were with abu musa al-ashari and he said he said to us and to allah i dirtiest homage as habita Lutz
he said you who named you and you people here today are the same number as those who went to fight Goliath in the army of David David out aleihsalaam going back to that time so you guys are on the number so third bit says to her name and how many were you so he says I think we were 250 or I think we were 350 now this narration in itself goes to show the kind of stories being transmitted like obviously it's impossible to really know what was the number of the army of David
aleihsalaam so these things already give you an idea that whoa this this seems to be some mmm some problematic things transmitted by but but by these people the other thing is this person who named in the face hardly transmits anything else very few things come from him his students habited not murder people what have the scholar said about him abou her tomorrow Z the dawn of Jericho a deal said leasable Mateen he is not strong this on much
missile not strong in hadith even a Hodja although saying he is a good guy trust world likes speaks truth fee he leaned but he's not all that is a big week here and there right at the Hobby transmits a bow had him saying Lisa bill Kobe is not strong if Normandy knee says I asked yeah yeah if not yeah I'm no marina baths a vietnam-era for all aha you lie aqua min whom he says I asked him yeah he about him and he said these are the people are stronger than him much wrong
like as in he's got some problems so when we've got an isolated chain that's coming through just saboteur no matter who is not reliable naive the ieave people in hadith transmitting from almost an unknown person who hardly transmits and when he does transmit transmit something strange from a companion that some people Burmese teachers who transmit the same thing say was not a wording of the Prophet this is not a hadith but let me add further why
is this a problem people why is this a problem this hadith is not a problem simply because it's trying to just control women it's not a problem because of that per se that is a problem but that is not the shocking problem here because that is done in other places too the shocking thing is this is an attack on the messenger of allah sallallahu alayhi wa sallam why do I say that because to call somebody a zania to call
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Mufti Abu Layth. (2018, May 4). Is the hadith about women wearing perfume being zaniya authentic? [Video, segment 2018-05-04b-S02, auto-transcribed, may contain errors]. Mufti Abu Layth Archive. Retrieved November 1, 2026, from https://muftiabulayth.org/r/bo72u9thuk8/s/2/
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Mufti Abu Layth. 2018. "Is the hadith about women wearing perfume being zaniya authentic?" Video, segment 2018-05-04b-S02, auto-transcribed, may contain errors. Mufti Abu Layth Archive. Recorded May 4, 2018. Accessed November 1, 2026. https://muftiabulayth.org/r/bo72u9thuk8/s/2/
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@misc{abulayth-2018-05-04b-S02, author = {Mufti Abu Layth}, title = {{Is the hadith about women wearing perfume being zaniya authentic?}}, year = {2018}, month = {5}, date = {2018-05-04}, howpublished = {\url{https://muftiabulayth.org/r/bo72u9thuk8/s/2/}}, url = {https://muftiabulayth.org/r/bo72u9thuk8/s/2/}, organization = {Mufti Abu Layth Archive}, urldate = {2026-11-01}, note = {Segment 2018-05-04b-S02, auto-transcribed, may contain errors} }
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