Sunan Abi Dawud

سنن أبي داود

5,272 hadith

4172Sahih

Abu Hurairah reported the Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) as saying:If anyone is presented some perfume, he should not return it, for it is a thing of good fragrance and light to bear

4173Hasan

Narrated AbuMusa: The Prophet (ﷺ) said: If a woman uses perfume and passes the people so that they may get its odour, she is so-and-so, meaning severe remarks

4174Sahih

Narrated AbuHurayrah: A woman met him and he found the odour of perfume in her. Her clothes were fluttering in the air. He said: O maid-servant of the Almighty, are you coming from the mosque? She replied: Yes. He said:…

4175Sahih

Narrated AbuHurayrah: The Prophet (ﷺ) said: If a woman fumigates herself with perfume, she must not attend the night prayer with us. Ibn Nufayl said: Isha' means night prayer

4176Da'if

Narrated Ammar ibn Yasir: I came to my family at night (after a journey) with my hands chapped and they perfumed me with saffron. In the morning I went to the Prophet (ﷺ) and gave him a greeting, but he did not respond…

4177Da'if

The tradition mentioned above (No. 4164) has also been transmitted by Ammar ibn Yasir through a different chain of narrators. This version has:Ammar said: I used khaluq. The first version is more perfect; it mentioned…

4178Da'if

Al-Rabi' b. Anas, quoting his two grandfathers, said:We heard Abu Musa say: The Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) said: Allah does not accept the prayer of a man who has any khaluq (perfume composed of saffron) on his body. Abu…

4179Sahih

Anas said:The Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) forbade men to use saffron. Isma'il version has: "(forbade) man to use saffron

4180Da'if

Narrated Ammar ibn Yasir: The Prophet (ﷺ) said: The angels do not come near three: the dead body of the unbeliever, one who smears himself with khaluq, and the one who is sexually defiled except that he performs ablution

4181Da'if

Narrated Al-Walid ibn Uqbah: When the Prophet of Allah (ﷺ) conquered Makkah. The people of Makkah began to bring their boys and he would invoke a blessing on them and rub their heads. I was brought, but as I had been…

4182Da'if

Narrated Anas ibn Malik: A man came to the Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) and he had the mark of yellowness (of saffron). The Prophet (peace be upon him rarely mentioned a thing which he disliked before a man. When he went away,…

4183Sahih

Narrated Al-Bara' : I did not see any man with locks hanging down to shoulders in red robe more beautiful than the Messenger of Allah (ﷺ). Muhammad b. Sulaiman added: He had hair which touched his shoulders. Abu Dawud…

4184Sahih

Narrated Al-Bara' :The Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) had hair which reached the lobes of his ears

4185Sahih

Narrated Anas ibn Malik: The hair of the Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) were up to the lobes of his ears

4186Sahih

Narrated Anas bin Malik:The hair of Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) were halfway down his ears

4187Sahih

Narrated Aisha, Ummul Mu'minin: The hair of the Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) were above wafrah and below jummah

4188Sahih

Narrated Ibn 'Abbas:The people of the Book used to let their hair hand down, and the polytheists used to part their hair. The Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) like to confirm with the People of the Book in the matters about which…

4189Hasan

Narrated Aisha, Ummul Mu'minin: When I parted the hair of the Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) I made a parting from the crow of his head and let his forelock hang between his eyes

4190Sahih

Narrated Wa'il ibn Hujr: I came to the Prophet (ﷺ) and I had long hair. When the Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) saw me, he said: Evil, evil! He said: I then returned and cut them off. I then came to him in the morning. He said…

4191Da'if

Narrated Umm Hani: The Prophet (ﷺ) came to Mecca and he had four plaits of hair

4192Sahih

Narrated Abdullah ibn Ja'far: The Prophet (ﷺ) gave the children of Ja'far three day' time to visit them. He then came to visit them, and said: Do not weep over my brother after this day. He said: Call to me the children…

4193Sahih

Narrated Ibn 'Umar:The Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) forbade qaza'. Qaza' means having part of a boy's head shaved and leaving part unshaven

4194Sahih

Narrated Abdullah ibn Umar: the Prophet (ﷺ) forbade qaza' which means that the head of a boy is shaved and a lock is left

4195Sahih

Narrated Abdullah ibn Umar: The Prophet (ﷺ) saw a boy with part of his head shaved and part left unshaven. He forbade them to do that, saying: Shave it all or leave it all

4196Da'if

Narrated Anas ibn Malik: I had a hanging lock of hair. My mother said to me: I shall not cut it, for the Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) used to stretch it our and hold it

4197Da'if

Narrated Anas ibn Malik: Al-Hajjaj ibn Hassan said: We entered upon Anas ibn Malik. My sister al-Mughirah said: You were a boy in those days and you had two locks of hair. He (Anas) rubbed your head and invoked blessing…

4198Sahih

Narrated Abu Hurairah:The Prophet (ﷺ) as saying: The inborn characteristics of man are five. Another version says: Five things are of the inborn characteristics of man: circumcision, shaving the pubes, plucking out hair…

4199Sahih

Narrated Abd Allah b. 'Umar:The Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) commanded to clip the moustaches and grow the beard long

4200Da'if

Narrated Anas bin Malik: The Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) fixed forty days to shave the pubes, paring the nails, clipping the moustaches, and plucking the hair under the armpit. Abu Dawud said: Ja'far b. Sulaiman transmitted…

4201Da'if

Narrated Jabir: We used to grow beard long except during the Hajj or 'Umrah. Abu Dawud said: Istihdad means to shave the pubes