Abu Dawud said: Their names—meaning their two grandfathers—are Zayd and Ziyad.

4179 — Musaddad narrated to us that Hammad ibn Zayd and Isma‘il ibn Ibrahim narrated to them, from ‘Abd al-‘Aziz ibn Suhayb, from Anas ibn Malik, who said: The Messenger of Allah, peace and blessings be upon him, forbade the use of saffron dye (al-taZa‘fur) for men. And he said on the authority of Isma‘il: that a man should dye himself with saffron.

4180 — Harun ibn ‘Abd Allah narrated to us, ‘Abd al-‘Aziz ibn ‘Abd Allah al-Uwaysi narrated to us, Sulayman ibn Bilal narrated to us, from Thawr ibn Zayd, from al-Hasan ibn Abi al-Hasan, from ‘Ammar ibn Yasir, that the Messenger of Allah, peace and blessings be upon him, said: "Three are those whom the angels do not approach: the corpse of an unbeliever, one who is smeared with khaluq (a kind of perfume), and the one in a state of major ritual impurity (junub), unless he performs ablution."

It was also recorded by Ahmad (19613), and Ibn ‘Abd al-Barr in "Al-Tamhid" 2/182–183, via the chain of Muhammad ibn ‘Abd Allah ibn al-Zubayr al-Asadi, with this same chain of transmission.

(1) Its chain of transmission is authentic. It was also recorded by al-Bukhari (5846), Muslim (2101), al-Tirmidhi (3024) and (3025), and al-Nasa’i in "Al-Kubra" (3672–3674) and (9354/1) and (9354/2), via multiple paths from ‘Abd al-‘Aziz ibn Suhayb, with it. In some of their versions, the prohibition of saffron dye is mentioned in absolute terms without specifying men, but the other narrations restrict it to men. It is also in "Musnad Ahmad" (11978) and "Sahih Ibn Hibban" (5464) and (5465). The prohibition of saffron dye applies specifically to the body, not the garment, as is indicated by the statement of Ibn ‘Abd al-Barr that follows at hadith (4182), so refer to it there.

(2) Its chain of transmission is weak due to its discontinuity, because al-Hasan ibn Abi al-Hasan—namely, al-Basri—did not hear from ‘Ammar ibn Yasir, according to what Ibn ‘Abd al-Barr said in "Al-Tamhid" 2/183, and al-Mundhiri in "Mukhtasar Sunan Abi Dawud" and others.