Fatwa #611613 July 2002United States of America
Please quote the Hadith about women wearing perfume and going out, and the source of it.
Answer
1. Allah's Messenger (Sallallaahu Alayhi Wasallam) said, "The perfume for%0D%0Amen is the fragrance is apparent but the colour is hidden, and the perfume%0D%0Afor women is the colour is apparent but the fragrance is hidden." (Mishkaat%0D%0AHadith4443)%0D%0A2. Allah's Messenger (Sallallaahu Alayhi Wasallam) said: Every eye is%0D%0Alustful and when a woman applies perfume and then goes about in an assembly,%0D%0Ashe is like such and such, i.e. an adulteress. (Mishkat Hadith1065)%0D%0A3. The Prophet (Sallallaahu Alayhi Wasallam) said: If a woman applies%0D%0Aperfume, she must not attend the night prayer with us. Ibn Nufayl said:%0D%0AIsha' means night prayer. (Abu Dawud Hadith4163)%0D%0A4. Narrator: Abu Hurayra - A woman met him and he found the fragrance of%0D%0Aperfume in her. Her clothes were fluttering in the air. He said: O%0D%0Amaid-servant of the Almighty, are you coming from the mosque? She replied:%0D%0AYes. He said: You used perfume? She replied: Yes. He said: I heard my%0D%0Abeloved AbulQasim (Sallallaahu Alayhi Wasallam) say: The prayer of a woman%0D%0Awho uses perfume is not accepted until she returns and takes a bath like%0D%0Athat of sexual defilement. (Abu Dawud4162)%0D%0A5. The Prophet (Sallallaahu Alayhi Wasallam) said: If a woman uses perfume%0D%0Aand passes the people so that they may get its fragrance, she is so-and-so,%0D%0Ameaning severe remarks. (Abu Dawud Hadith4161)%0D%0A6. The Prophet (Sallallaahu Alayhi Wasallam) said: I do not ride on purple,%0D%0Aor wear a garment dyed with saffron, or wear shirt hemmed with silk.%0D%0APointing to the collar of his shirt al-Hasan (al-Basri) said: The perfume%0D%0Aused by men should have fragrance but no colour, and the perfume used by%0D%0Awomen should have a colour but no odour.%0D%0ASa'id said: I think he said: They interpreted his tradition about perfume%0D%0Aused by women as applying when she comes out. But when she is with her%0D%0Ahusband, she may use any perfume she wishes. (Abu Dawud Hadith4037)%0D%0A%0D%0Aand Allah Ta'ala Knows Best%0D%0A%0D%0AMufti Ebrahim Desai