# Is a woman's prayer rejected if she wears perfume to the mosque?

*Abu Hurayra's report that a perfumed woman's prayer needs a ghusl*

- URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/bo72u9thuk8/s/5/
- Date: 2018-05-04 · Kind: lesson · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: On Women Wearing Perfume: Debunking Weak and Blasphemous Hadith -Mufti Abu Layth (23:40–26:15)
- Status: general teaching
- Watch from the start of the segment: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bO72u9ThuK8&t=1420s
- Recording page: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/bo72u9thuk8/

**Topics:** Reports demeaning women; Narrator criticism; Women in worship and mosques

**Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked):** No: 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.

**Checked position (checked by two independent reviews, not by the channel):** 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.

**Evidence, his words at 25:47:** “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” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bO72u9ThuK8&t=1547s)

## Longer summary

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.

## Sources and names cited

- report: la tuqbalu salatu imraatin tatayyabat lil-masjid hatta taghtasila ghuslaha min al-janaba (Abu Hurayra; Abu Dawud and Ahmad, number not stated)
- Abu Hurayra
- Ubayd, client of Abu Ruhm [?]
- Asim ibn Ubaydullah
- Ibn al-Qattan [?]
- Abu Hatim al-Razi
- Abu Zur'a al-Razi
- Imam al-Bukhari
- Sunan Abi Dawud
- Musnad Ahmad
- ghusl
- majhul (unknown narrator)
- munkar

## Transcript (machine tier, 23:40–26:15)

[23:14] 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

[23:53] 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

[24:29] 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

[25:09] 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

[25:47] 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

## Cite

Mufti Abu Layth Archive, segment bO72u9ThuK8/s/5. https://muftiabulayth.org/r/bo72u9thuk8/s/5/

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