Recordings › On Women Wearing Perfume: Debunking Weak and Blasphemous Hadith -Mufti Abu Layth · 4 May 2018 › Segment 5 of 6
Is a woman's prayer rejected if she wears perfume to the mosque?
ghusal ghusul gusl salat salaah namaz salaat namaaz as-salah al-salah salawat hadeeth ahadith ahaadeeth hadis hadees ahaadith imam bukhari sahih al-bukhari sahih bukhari saheeh al-bukhari saheeh bukhari imam al-bukhari masjed masaajid masajid muftis makki and madani makki meccan medinan makki surah madani surah as-salamu alaykum assalamu alaikum assalamualaikum salaam salaams salam alaykum wa alaykum as-salam peace greetingAbu Hurayra's report that a perfumed woman's prayer needs a ghusl
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machinesummary, machine-writtenNo: Mufti Abu Layth says the report is a statement attributed to Abu Hurayra through unknown and weak narrators, not a hadith of the Prophet, and no one holds that such a prayer is invalid.
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Mufti Abu Layth discusses the report in Abu Dawud and Musnad Ahmad that Abu Hurayra met a perfumed woman coming from the mosque and told her that the prayer of a woman who wears perfume to the mosque is not accepted until she performs a ghusl like that for janabah. He says this is not a hadith of the Prophet but a statement of Abu Hurayra, transmitted only by Ubayd, the client of Abu Ruhm [?], whom Ibn al-Qattan [?] says is unknown, from him by an unknown Abd al-Karim, and in the better-known chains by Asim ibn Ubaydullah, whom he says a number of critics [?], among them Abu Hatim, Abu Zur'a al-Razi and al-Bukhari, judged weak or munkar al-hadith. He says the report is utterly unacceptable as a hadith of the Prophet, whether or not Abu Hurayra said it, and that nobody holds that a woman's prayer is invalid or that she must take a ritual bath.
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Mufti Abu Layth says the report that a perfumed woman's prayer is not accepted until she bathes is not from the Prophet, rests on unknown and weak narrators, and is followed by no one.
“that hadith is utterly utterly unacceptable as a hadith from the prophet salallahu alaihe salam whether these things somehow above herrera said them or not is a different story but nobody accepts these rulings”
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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
this woman that where did you just come from and she says from the Masjid and he says what we're all that perfume that you're wearing and she says yes and then Abu Huraira says to her lair took Baloo soliton limb row are the Salah will be invalid for a woman invalid for a woman that has worn perfume and come to this Masjid until she doesn't do hustle hustle jahnava like the ritual shower after
having intercourse for example now this hadith is not a hadith from the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wasallam okay this is like I said transmitted from Abu Huraira from Abu Huraira a particular person only transmits this his name is obeyed mola of Iran okay now so obeyed mola of Iran according to some of the his it was some freed slave according to ignore fat pan we don't even know who he is he says now you are off we don't even know who this person is from obeyed mola
of Iran this is transmitted from one person abdul kareem who is unknown and in more popular chains this is transmitted by arson in Nevada law and flourish al-madani and who is this awesome people this awesome you've not away the law Abdullah a Dorothy said about him live Jeremy said about him live in Omaha I said about him live April Matheny said my naive about her tomorrow Z abuzer are rosy and albahari they said about him monka monka all
hadith this person is utterly unacceptable that hadith is utterly utterly unacceptable as a hadith from the prophet salallahu alaihe salam whether these things somehow above herrera said them or not is a different story but nobody accepts these rulings of course a woman's praise accepted and nobody says a woman has to do hustling janaba she has to go and shower like a ritual showering and if you're gonna say this is exaggeration or but that's not what that hadith says and even if you do try to accept this hadith it is transmitted it's only really coming from homemade
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Mufti Abu Layth. (2018, May 4). Is a woman's prayer rejected if she wears perfume to the mosque? [Video, segment 2018-05-04b-S05, auto-transcribed, may contain errors]. Mufti Abu Layth Archive. Retrieved November 1, 2026, from https://muftiabulayth.org/r/bo72u9thuk8/s/5/
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Mufti Abu Layth. 2018. "Is a woman's prayer rejected if she wears perfume to the mosque?" Video, segment 2018-05-04b-S05, auto-transcribed, may contain errors. Mufti Abu Layth Archive. Recorded May 4, 2018. Accessed November 1, 2026. https://muftiabulayth.org/r/bo72u9thuk8/s/5/
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@misc{abulayth-2018-05-04b-S05, author = {Mufti Abu Layth}, title = {{Is a woman's prayer rejected if she wears perfume to the mosque?}}, year = {2018}, month = {5}, date = {2018-05-04}, howpublished = {\url{https://muftiabulayth.org/r/bo72u9thuk8/s/5/}}, url = {https://muftiabulayth.org/r/bo72u9thuk8/s/5/}, organization = {Mufti Abu Layth Archive}, urldate = {2026-11-01}, note = {Segment 2018-05-04b-S05, auto-transcribed, may contain errors} }
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