It is as though I can still see the gleam of perfume in the parting of the Messenger of Allah's ﷺ hair while he was in the state of ihram.
كأني أنظر إلى وبيص الطيب في مفرق رسول الله ﷺ وهو محرم.
Bukhari narrated it in the Hajj chapter (1538), and Muslim in the Hajj chapter (1190: 39), both through Mansur, from Ibrahim Nakhai, from Aswad, from Ayesha, with this wording, and the wording given is Muslim's. Her statement "the gleam of perfume," and in another narration "the gleam of musk," means its shine. It is said, the thing gleamed, gleaming, when it shines. Khattabi mentioned this.This hadith is evidence that if the trace of perfume remains on the muhrim during his state of ihram, it does not harm him, contrary to those who disliked the use of perfume at the time of entering ihram, or those who disliked the remaining trace of it after ihram.As for what Ibn Majah narrated (2928) through Sharik, from Abu Ishaq Sabi, from Aswad, from Ayesha, who said, "It is as though I can see the gleam of perfume in the parting of the Messenger of Allah's hair three days later, while he was in ihram," this is daif, due to Sharik's poor memory, for no one else corroborated him in his statement "three days later." The chain also contains Abu Ishaq, who was a mudallis with mixed-up memory in his later years.Ibrahim corroborated him, narrating from Aswad, from Ayesha, but the one who narrated from Ibrahim was Ata bin Saaib, who also had mixed-up memory in his later years. Bayhaqi narrated this in his Kubra (5/35), and in the Sughra, that is Minna Kubra (1507), from the hadith of Saeed bin Zayd, from Ata bin Saaib. But Saeed bin Zayd was not among those who heard from Ata before his memory became mixed up.