What is the authenticity of the hadith: “I have been made to love three things from your worldly life: perfume, women, and I have made the delight of my eyes in prayer”?

The questioner : My master, this is a hadith from the Prophet Is this hadith authentic, and what is its interpretation?

The Shaykh : This is proof that Abu Sulayman has been afflicted with the same forgetfulness that afflicted his Shaykh, because we used to study this hadith repeatedly in the lesson and tell them that the hadith is authentic, but the word is false, meaning the wording of the hadith is ; the word “three” is not in it.

The questioner : Women, do you mean women?

The Shaykh : Yes, do you not like women? I will answer you, do you not like women?

The questioner : No, I love the Prophet? -The Shaykh : (Laughter) - We are saying that the Prophet ... perfume and women, and the delight of my eyes in prayer?

The Shaykh : Do you not like perfume and women?

The questioner : I am not a Prophet, my brother -The Shaykh : (Laughter) - .

The Shaykh : My dear, I see that you have no Prophet, and may Allah guide you, and I hope you are a Muslim.

The questioner : Amen.

The Shaykh : But I do not know if you like women or not?

The questioner : No, I like women.

The Shaykh : That is it, so do you like perfume or not?

The questioner : I like it.

The Shaykh : Okay, if the Shari'ah told you not to like women and not to like perfume, would you like women and perfume?

The questioner : If the Shari'ah told me ... .

The Shaykh : If the Shari'ah told you not to like them.

The questioner : Even if the Shari'ah told me not to like them ... ?

The Shaykh : No, no, I tell you the opposite: if the Shari'ah told you not to like women, would you like them?

The questioner : No, I like them, by Allah, because when I was on the road ... I see women.

The Shaykh : Let us change the example: if the Shari'ah told you not to like perfume, not to like the pleasant scent?

The questioner : I do not like it?

The Shaykh : You do not like it, so why, if it told you not to like women, do you like them?

The questioner : Because nature ... .

The Shaykh : No, you are wrong now, meaning now the Shari'ah tells you not to commit zina, correct? So you try not to commit zina, and it tells you , but you sometimes, even if you become old like my story, the eye slips a little, but you must consider that the Shari'ah told you that this is a type of zina, but if it told you that this looking is permissible, halal, pure, would you say it is permissible, but it said this is zina, so you say this is zina, but the fact that you sometimes commit zina with your eye or with your ear is another matter, but when you do the act, you know that the Shari'ah

The questioner : That I am a sinner.

The Shaykh : You are a sinner. May Allah forgive you. Now, when the Prophet says: we do not want the word “three,” I repeat, does “perfume” mean forbidden perfume or permissible perfume?

The questioner : Permissible.

The Shaykh : Meaning, does he mean the perfume that is his own acquisition, or the perfume he stole from his companion? What kind of perfume does he mean?

The questioner : The one that is his own acquisition.

The Shaykh : Meaning, permissible perfume. Stay with me, permissible, and women, forbidden or permissible?

The questioner : Permissible.

The Shaykh : So do you like women or do you not like women?

The questioner : I like women.

The Shaykh : Permissible or forbidden?

The questioner : No, permissible.

The Shaykh : Here, he tells you, did you see how, after my soul came out, I said I like them like you ... - (Laughter) -

The questioner : ... the noble verse, he interprets it with the same interpretation

The Shaykh :

The questioner : to the end of the verse ...

The Shaykh : Do you see how he plays with the verses like this Khariji, , meaning he is waiting, and he also interpreted “women” in a meaning other than what every Arab understands, whether he is a scholar or not. Now we return to the hadith: permissible perfume and permissible women, so I love permissible perfume and permissible women, and Abu Sulayman loves perfume and women. Okay, what is wrong with the hadith? But here the Prophet is distinguished, the Prophet is distinguished in the third, , we, by Allah, are not like this, do you see? Because here you say he is a Prophet, when he asks you, do you like women, he who is a Prophet? He shares our humanity.

The questioner : Yes, correct.

The Shaykh : Do you see, he eats and drinks and marries and bathes.

The questioner : A human being.

The Shaykh : And among the hadiths that these people deny is: , this requires a man who has no equal in the world, except Muhammad (peace be upon him).

The questioner : May Allah send blessings upon him.

The Shaykh : I have seen, this indicates his strength, and the chastity of his soul, and therefore he gathered lawful things, he gathered more than four, and therefore , but this is not like our story, which is about the main goal, which is obedience to Allah, which our Lord said: , he said , so you lean to the right and to the left.

The questioner : No.