The Order for Perfumed Women to Return to Their Homes and Bathe and the Ruling on Their Prayer
The prayer of a woman who wears perfume to go to the masjid is not accepted until she returns and takes a bath, like the bath of janābah (after sexual intercourse, i.e. a full bath).
Sunan Abū Dāwūd [4174]
In the Name of Allāh, the All-Merciful, the Ever-Merciful…
The imām, Abū Dāwūd {d.275) collected in his Sunan (#4174) that Abū Hurayrah encountered a woman who was wearing perfume, and the tail of her garment was dusty. He said, “O servant of al-Jabbaar! Have you come from the masjid?” She said, “Yes.” He said, “And you...
