through Manṣūr, from Ibrāhīm, from al-Aswad, from her. The two Imams likewise included it in their Ṣaḥīḥs through Shuʿbah, from al-Ḥakam, from Ibrāhīm, from al-Aswad, from ʿĀʾishah(1)(2).

Abū Dāwūd al-Ṭayālisī(3) said: Shuʿbah(4) narrated to us, from Manṣūr, from Ibrāhīm, from al-Aswad, from ʿĀʾishah. She said, “It is as though I can still see the sparkle of perfume in the roots of the Messenger of Allah’s hair ﷺ while he was in iḥrām.”

Imām Aḥmad(5) said: ʿAffān narrated to us; Ḥammād ibn Salamah—[this is Ḥammād himself]—narrated to us, from Ibrāhīm al-Nakhaʿī, from al-Aswad, from ʿĀʾishah, who said: “It is as though I can still see the gleam of perfume on the Prophet’s parting ﷺ several days later while he was still in the state of consecration.”

ʿAbd Allāh ibn al-Zubayr al-Humaydī related: Sufyān ibn ʿUyaynah narrated to us; ʿAṭāʾ ibn al-Sāʾib narrated to us, from Ibrāhīm al-Nakhaʿī, from al-Aswad, from ʿĀʾishah, who said: “I noticed the perfume(6) on the Prophet’s parting after three days while he was still in iḥrām.”

These aḥādīth indicate that he ﷺ applied perfume after bathing; for had the fragrance been applied before the bath it would have been washed away and no trace would have remained, especially three days after the onset of iḥrām.

A number of the early scholars—among them Ibn ʿUmar—considered perfuming oneself at the moment of assuming iḥrām to be disliked.

We have also transmitted this ḥadīth through the route of Ibn ʿUmar from ʿĀʾishah. Al-Ḥāfiẓ al-Bayhaqī(7) said: Abū al-Ḥusayn ibn Bishrān in Baghdad narrated to us; Abū al-Ḥasan ʿAlī ibn Muḥammad al-Miṣrī narrated to us; Yaḥyā ibn ʿUthmān ibn Ṣāliḥ narrated to us; ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn Abī al-Ghamr narrated to us; Yaʿqūb ibn ʿAbd al-Raḥmān narrated to us, from Mūsā ibn ʿUqbah, from Nāfiʿ, from Ibn ʿUmar, from ʿĀʾishah, who said: “I perfumed the Messenger of Allah ﷺ with choice ghāliyah when he entered the state of iḥrām.” This chain of transmission is rare and scarcely found.

Afterward he ﷺ bound his hair together so that the perfume would be better preserved and protected from dust and dirt settling upon it.