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ذِكْرُ الْأَمْرِ بِتَنْظِيفِ الْمَسَاجِدِ وَتَطْيِيبِهَا

ibnhibban:1634al-Ḥasan b. Sufyān > Abū Kurayb > al-Ḥusayn b. ʿAlī > Zāʾidah > Hishām b. ʿUrwah from his father > ʿĀʾishah

The Messenger of Allah ﷺ commanded us to build mosques in different localities (i.e. in the locality of each tribe separately) and that they should be kept clean and be perfumed. (Using translation from Abū Dāʾūd 455)  

ابن حبّان:١٦٣٤أَخْبَرَنَا الْحَسَنُ بْنُ سُفْيَانَ حَدَّثَنَا أَبُو كُرَيْبٍ حَدَّثَنَا الْحُسَيْنُ بْنُ عَلِيٍّ عَنْ زَائِدَةَ عَنْ هِشَامِ بْنِ عُرْوَةَ عَنْ أَبِيهِ عَنْ عَائِشَةَ قَالَتْ

«أَمَرَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ ﷺ بِبِنَاءِ الْمَسَاجِدِ فِي الدُّورِ وَأَنْ تُطَيَّبَ وَتُنَظَّفَ»  


See similar narrations below:

Collected by Abū Dāwūd, Tirmidhī, Ibn Mājah, Aḥmad
abudawud:455Muḥammad b. al-ʿAlāʾ > Ḥusayn b. ʿAlī > Zāʾidah > Hishām b. ʿUrwah from his father > ʿĀʾishah

The Messenger of Allah ﷺ commanded us to build mosques in different localities (i.e. in the locality of each tribe separately) and that they should be kept clean and be perfumed.  

أبو داود:٤٥٥حَدَّثَنَا مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ الْعَلاَءِ حَدَّثَنَا حُسَيْنُ بْنُ عَلِيٍّ عَنْ زَائِدَةَ عَنْ هِشَامِ بْنِ عُرْوَةَ عَنْ أَبِيهِ عَنْ عَائِشَةَ قَالَتْ

أَمَرَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ ﷺ بِبِنَاءِ الْمَسَاجِدِ فِي الدُّورِ وَأَنْ تُنَظَّفَ وَتُطَيَّبَ  

tirmidhi:594Muḥammad b. Ḥātim al-Muʾaddib al-Baghdādī al-Baṣrī > ʿĀmir b. Ṣāliḥ al-Zubayrī > from And Lad al-Zubayr > Hishām b. ʿUrwah from his father > ʿĀʾishah

"The Prophet ordered the construction of Masajid in all Dur and that they be kept clean and scented."  

الترمذي:٥٩٤حَدَّثَنَا مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ حَاتِمٍ الْمُؤَدِّبُ الْبَغْدَادِيُّ الْبَصْرِيُّ حَدَّثَنَا عَامِرُ بْنُ صَالِحٍ الزُّبَيْرِيُّ هُوَ مِنْ وَلَدِ الزُّبَيْرِ حَدَّثَنَا هِشَامُ بْنُ عُرْوَةَ عَنْ أَبِيهِ عَنْ عَائِشَةَ قَالَتْ

أَمَرَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ ﷺ بِبِنَاءِ الْمَسَاجِدِ فِي الدُّورِ وَأَنْ تُنَظَّفَ وَتُطَيَّبَ  

ibnmajah:759Rizq Allāh b. Mūsá > Yaʿqūb b. Isḥāq al-Ḥaḍramī > Zāʾidah b. Qudāmah > Hishām b. ʿUrwah from his father > ʿĀʾishah

The Messenger of Allah commanded that places of prayer be established in villages, and that they be purified and perfumed.  

ابن ماجة:٧٥٩حَدَّثَنَا رِزْقُ اللَّهِ بْنُ مُوسَى حَدَّثَنَا يَعْقُوبُ بْنُ إِسْحَاقَ الْحَضْرَمِيُّ حَدَّثَنَا زَائِدَةُ بْنُ قُدَامَةَ عَنْ هِشَامِ بْنِ عُرْوَةَ عَنْ أَبِيهِ عَنْ عَائِشَةَ قَالَتْ

أَمَرَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ ﷺ أَنْ تُتَّخَذَ الْمَسَاجِدُ فِي الدُّورِ وَأَنْ تُطَهَّرَ وَتُطَيَّبَ  

ahmad:26386ʿĀmir b. Ṣāliḥ > Hishām b. ʿUrwah > ʾAbīh > ʿĀʾishah

The Messenger of Allah ﷺ commanded us to build mosques in different localities (i.e. in the locality of each tribe separately) and that they should be kept clean and be perfumed. (Using translation from Abū Dāʾūd 455)   

أحمد:٢٦٣٨٦حَدَّثَنَا عَامِرُ بْنُ صَالِحٍ قَالَ حَدَّثَنِي هِشَامُ بْنُ عُرْوَةَ عَنْأَبِيهِ عَنْ عَائِشَةَ

أَنَّ رَسُولَ اللهِ ﷺ أَمَرَ بِبُنْيَانِ الْمَسَاجِدِ فِي الدُّورِ وَأَمَرَ بِهَا أَنْ تُنَظَّفَ وَتُطَيَّبَ