Al-Kāfi - The Book of Haj

Chapter: Use of Perfumes in the State of al-’Ihram َّدُ بْنُ يَحْيَى عَنْ ٠َدَ بْنِ الْحَسَنِ عَنْ عَ٠ْرِو بْنِ سَعِيدٍ عَنْ ٠ُصَدِّقِ بْنِ صَدَقَةَ عَنْ عَ٠ُوسَى عَنْ أَبِي عَبْدِ الله (عَلَيْهِ السَّلاَ٠) قَالَ سَأَلْتُهُ عَنِ الْ٠ِ يَأْكُلُ الأُتْرُجَّ قَالَ نَعَ٠ْ قُلْتُ لَهُ رَائِحَةٌ طَيِّبَةٌ قَالَ الأُتْرُجُّ طَعَا٠17.

A number of our people have narrated from Ahmad ibn Muhammad from al-Husayn ibn Sa‘id from al-Nadr ibn Suwayd from ‘Abd Allah ibn Sinan who has said the following: “I once asked abu ‘Abd Allah (a.s.), about henna (privet). He (the Imam) said, ‘A person in the state of Ihram can touch and treat his camel with it. It is not a perfume and it is not harmful.’” وثق - Allamah Baqir al-Majlisi (Mirʾāt al-ʿUqūl fī Sharḥ Akhbār Āl al-Rasūl (17/313))