On the authority of 'A'ishah, she said: I saw the glistening of perfume on the head of the Messenger of Allah, peace and blessings be upon him, while he was in the state of iḥrām. (1)

2699 - Hannād ibn al-Sarī informed us, from Abū Mu'āwiyah, from al-A'mash, from Ibrāhīm, from al-Aswad, from 'A'ishah, she said: It is as if I am looking at the glistening of perfume in the partings of the Messenger of Allah's hair, peace and blessings be upon him, while he was pronouncing the talbiyah. (2)

2700 - Qutaybah and Hannād ibn al-Sarī informed us, from Abū al-Aḥwaṣ, from Abū Isḥāq, from al-Aswad, from 'A'ishah, she said: When the Prophet, peace and blessings be upon him, (3) intended to enter iḥrām, he would anoint himself with the most fragrant oil he could find (4) until I could see its glistening in his head and beard. (5)

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(1) Its chain of transmission is authentic. Sulaymān: he is Ibn Mihrān al-A'mash. It is in "al-Sunan al-Kubrā" (3664). Aḥmad also narrated it (25402) from Muḥammad ibn Ja'far Ghundar, with this chain.
Aḥmad also narrated it (25586) from Yaḥyā ibn Sa'īd al-Qaṭṭān, from Shu'bah, with it, and he paired Sulaymān al-A'mash with al-Ḥakam ibn 'Utaybah.
Aḥmad also narrated it (24781) and (25933), and Muslim (1190): (41), and Ibn Ḥibbān (1377) through multiple paths, from Sulaymān al-A'mash, with it. In Ibn Ḥibbān's version it appears as: "the glistening of musk," but this wording was not stated by anyone other than al-Ḥasan ibn 'Ubayd Allāh from Ibrāhīm, as al-Dāraquṭnī mentioned in "al-'Ilal" 9/76. And Allah knows best. The discussion of it has already preceded in narration (2693).

(2) Its chain of transmission is authentic. Abū Mu'āwiyah: he is Muḥammad ibn Khāzim al-Ḍarīr. It is in "al-Sunan al-Kubrā" under number (3665).
Aḥmad also narrated it (25874), and Muslim (1190): (40), from the path of Abū Mu'āwiyah Muḥammad ibn Khāzim al-Ḍarīr, with this chain.
And consider what precedes it, and what has already come under number (2693), and consider the rest of its narrations there.

(3) In the margin of (K): And Hannād said: The Messenger of Allah, peace and blessings be upon him.

(4) In (M) and the margins of (K) and (H): oil that he found.

(5) An authentic ḥadīth, whose narrators are trustworthy. Qutaybah: he is Ibn Sa'īd, and Abū al-Aḥwaṣ: he is Sallām ibn Sulaym, and Abū Isḥāq: he is 'Amr ibn 'Abd Allāh al-Sabī'ī. It is in "al-Sunan al-Kubrā" under number (3666). =