# Sunan Abi Dawud - Combing the Hair (Kitab Al-Tarajjul)

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**1 hadith**

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## Hadith #4176

**Book:** Combing the Hair (Kitab Al-Tarajjul) | **Narrator(s):** Ammar ibn Yasir, Ibn Jurayj ابن جريج, Muhammad bin Bakr bin 'Uthman al-Barsani محمد بن بكر بن عثمان البرساني, Nasr bin 'Ali bin Nasr bin 'Ali, Umar bin 'Ata'a bin Abi al-Khawar عمر بن عطاء بن أبي الخوار, Yahya bin Y'amar يحيى بن يعمر | **Grade:** Hasan

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 to me nor did he welcome me.
He said: Go away and wash this off yourself. I then went away and washed it off me. I came to him but there remained a spot of it on me. I give him a greeting, but he did not respond to me nor did he welcome me.
He said: Go away and wash it off yourself. I then went away and washed it off me. I then came and gave him a greeting.
He responded to me and welcomed me, saying: The angels do not attend the funeral of an unbeliever bringing good to it, nor a man who smears himself with saffron, nor a man who is sexually defiled. He said: He permitted the man who was sexually defiled to perform ablution when he slept, ate or drank.

*Source: [ParallelQuran](https://parallelquran.com/hadith/sunan-abi-dawud-4176/)*

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