Recordings › On Women Wearing Perfume: Debunking Weak and Blasphemous Hadith -Mufti Abu Layth · 4 May 2018 › Segment 4 of 6
Doesn't the hadith of Zaynab forbid women from wearing perfume to the mosque?
salah salat salaah namaz salaat namaaz as-salah al-salah salawat hadeeth ahadith ahaadeeth hadis hadees ahaadith saheeh sahih hadith saheeh hadith sound hadith authentic esha ishaa salat al-isha isha prayer masjid masjed masaajid masajid muftis hukm ahkam hukum hukam ahkaam haraam forbidden dalil daleel adillah adilla evidence saheeh muslim imam muslim muslim ibn al-hajjaj ulama ulema ulamaa as-salamu alaykum assalamu alaikum assalamualaikum salaam salaams salam alaykum wa alaykum as-salam peace greetingZaynab al-Thaqafiyya's report: no perfume at the late Isha, a specific instruction
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machinesummary, machine-writtenThe report only tells women not to wear perfume to the late Isha, sometimes Zaynab alone, so Mufti Abu Layth reads it as a specific instruction, not a general ban.
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Mufti Abu Layth turns to the report of Zaynab al-Thaqafiyya, the wife of Abdullah ibn Mas'ud, transmitted in Sahih Muslim and other books through one student, Busr ibn Sa'id [?], in which the Prophet says that if a woman attends the late Isha she should not wear perfume. He notes that in some narrations, such as al-Nasa'i's, the instruction is to her alone and in others to women in the plural. He asks why every version mentions only the late Isha, rejects the suggestion that only then did women go out, since women went to markets and about their business by day, and says that if perfume outside were haram in general the Prophet would have said so to all women. In his understanding it was an isolated, specific matter, perhaps a particular perfume or overuse, whose reason the hadith does not give, and it does not make perfume haram for all women.
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Mufti Abu Layth says Zaynab's report, which mentions only the late Isha and in some versions addresses her alone, was a specific instruction for an unstated reason and not a general prohibition of perfume for women.
“in my understanding this was just an isolated incident that may whatever it was it was not a general ruling because if it was a general ruling the Prophet”
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so there's two other kinds one is from zeyneb hasta Coffea now this hadith from zainabou sokovia is transmitted in books right it's transmitted you've got this in a few different books like in it does come in in the Muslim life more than and quite a few others as well this is all one narration it's all too with the eshop ray she was the wife of
Abdul Edna mr. hood and her companion from her her friend sorry a student if not a friend her student is transmitting it from her the students name is boo sleepness I eats a booster booster rip NEBOSH yep so possibly Saeed is transmitting it and she says that I went to the mosque and the Prophet said now he said that if you're coming to Asia l aquila that's mentioned in all the narrations if you're coming to the final
Asia then don't wear perfume now this has this a few perspectives at this now in one of the narrations you'll find so for example insulin SAE when this is mentioned Boozer is saying the Prophet said to her specifically Allah tomasa that she doesn't touch perfume so some of the narrations are just her and some of the narrations are general so they're saying that oh that you shouldn't you
lot shouldn't as in the plural thing but my question is first of all how is this a prohibition in general because it could be that make why do all of these narrations mention only YCJA a lockira the final a sharp ray of night so some scholars have tried to say old but that's when only women would come out that's not true women would go to the marketplace women would go out for their daily business they would do things why is the Prophet only mentioning it here and if it was Haram in general why not
say by the way perfume is haram outside why say to her as in some of the narrations just to her don't you wear this at this time was this a specific thing that they were wearing that was upsetting who was this something very isolated in my understanding this was just an isolated incident that may whatever it was it was not a general ruling because if it was a general ruling the Prophet would have said that here mash are Anissa women do not go out in proof wearing perfume but why is he saying to her and only to her she's the only person transmitting this and in some
narrations exclusively to her in some day saying to her as in you lot who attend only a shuttle Arcana the final night pray don't wear your perfume so whatever the reason for that was maybe there was a particular type of perfume that was upsetting people maybe it was just it wasn't maybe they were overdoing it maybe whatever the reason the hadith doesn't say but what it does not say is that it was haram for all women because more deservingly comment being honest you've got the night prayer okay but what is more of an issue would be women
going out during the day outside in the marketplaces doing things I'm sure if they're all wearing perfume that would be more of an issue to address but yet the Prophet this is not transmitted through any sigh sorry changed back to the prophet of God salallahu alaihe salam the final hadith right now this is this hadith is from Abu Huraira now this is transmitted in Abu Dawood and in the most of the Batman and and these books mainly the Abu Huraira saw a woman going and he said to
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Mufti Abu Layth. (2018, May 4). Doesn't the hadith of Zaynab forbid women from wearing perfume to the mosque? [Video, segment 2018-05-04b-S04, auto-transcribed, may contain errors]. Mufti Abu Layth Archive. Retrieved November 1, 2026, from https://muftiabulayth.org/r/bo72u9thuk8/s/4/
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@misc{abulayth-2018-05-04b-S04, author = {Mufti Abu Layth}, title = {{Doesn't the hadith of Zaynab forbid women from wearing perfume to the mosque?}}, year = {2018}, month = {5}, date = {2018-05-04}, howpublished = {\url{https://muftiabulayth.org/r/bo72u9thuk8/s/4/}}, url = {https://muftiabulayth.org/r/bo72u9thuk8/s/4/}, organization = {Mufti Abu Layth Archive}, urldate = {2026-11-01}, note = {Segment 2018-05-04b-S04, auto-transcribed, may contain errors} }
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