not wearing perfume. Recorded by Abu Dawud. (8) Her prayer in her house is better and more excellent for her, based on what Ibn Umar narrated, saying: The Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings of Allah be upon him) said: "Do not prevent your women from the mosques, yet their houses are better for them." Recorded by Abu Dawud. (9) And he (peace and blessings of Allah be upon him) said: "The prayer of a woman in her house is more excellent than her prayer in her courtyard, and her prayer in her private closet (makhda') is more excellent than her prayer in her house." Recorded by Abu Dawud. (10)
Section: If a woman leads another woman in prayer, the woman stands to her right, as a follower does with men. If she prays behind a man, she stands behind him, according to the statement of the Prophet (peace and blessings of Allah be upon him): "Place them behind where Allah has placed them." (11) If there is a man with them, he stands to the right of the Imam, and the woman stands behind them, as Anas narrated: That the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings of Allah be upon him) prayed with him and his mother or his maternal aunt, so he placed me on his right, and placed the woman behind us. Recorded by Muslim. (12) If there is a man and a boy with the Imam
(8) In: The Chapter on what has been said regarding the going out of women to the mosque, from the Book of Prayer. Sunan Abi Dawud 1/134. It was likewise recorded by al-Darimi, in: The Chapter on the prohibition of preventing women from the mosques, from the Book of Prayer. Sunan al-Darimi 1/293. Without the addition "and let them go out unperfumed (tafilat)", it was recorded by al-Bukhari, in: The Chapter on "Abdullah ibn Muhammad narrated to us...", etc., from the Book of Friday Prayer. Sahih al-Bukhari 2/7. And Muslim, in: The Chapter on the going out of women to the mosques... etc., from the Book of Prayer. Sahih Muslim 1/327. And Ibn Majah, in: The Chapter on the glorification of the hadith of the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings of Allah be upon him)... etc., from the Introduction. Sunan Ibn Majah 1/8. And Imam Malik, in: The Chapter on what has been said regarding the going out of women to the mosques, from the Book of Prayer Direction (Qibla). Al-Muwatta 1/197. And Imam Ahmad, in: al-Musnad 2/16, 36, 45, 76, 77, 151, 438, 475, 528, 5/192, 193, 6/69, 70. (9) In: The Chapter on what has been said regarding the going out of women to the mosque, from the Book of Prayer. Sunan Abi Dawud 1/134. It was also recorded by Muslim, in: The Chapter on the going out of women to the mosques... etc., from the Book of Prayer. Sahih Muslim 1/327, without the addition "and their houses are better for them." And Imam Ahmad, in: al-Musnad 2/43, 45, 76, 77, 90, 140. (10) In: The Chapter on the emphasis regarding that, from the Book of Prayer. Sunan Abi Dawud 1/134. (11) Narrated by Abd al-Razzaq in his Musannaf, as a statement stopped at (mawquf) Ibn Mas'ud, in: The Chapter on women witnessing the congregation, from the Book of Prayer. Musannaf Abd al-Razzaq 3/149. It is in Nasb al-Rayah by al-Zayla'i 2/36, where he said: In Musannaf Abd al-Razzaq: it is mawquf on Ibn Mas'ud, and through the chain of Abd al-Razzaq, it was narrated by al-Tabarani in his Mu'jam. (12) In: The Chapter on the permissibility of congregation in the supererogatory prayer (nafilah)... etc., from the Book of Mosques. Sahih Muslim 1/458. It was also recorded by Abu Dawud, in: The Chapter on two men, one of whom leads the other, how they should stand, from the Book of Prayer. Sunan Abi Dawud =
