Amr bin Abi Amr and Ikrimah reported: Some people of Iraq came and said: Ibn Abbas, do you regard taking a bath on Friday as obligatory ? He said: No, it is only a means of cleanliness, and is better for one who washes oneself. Anyone who does not take a bath, it is not essential for him. I inform you how the bath (on Friday) commenced. The people were poor and used to wear woolen clothes, and would carry loads on their backs. Their mosque was small and its rood was lowered down. It was a sort of trellis of vine. The Messenger of Allah صلی اللہ علیہ وسلم once came out on a hot day and the people perspired profusely in the woolen clothes so much so that foul smell emitted from them and it caused trouble to each other. When the Messenger of Allah صلی اللہ علیہ وسلم found the foul smell, he said: O people, when this day (Friday) comes, you should take bath and every one should anoint the best oil and perfume one has. Ibn Abbas then said: Then Allah, the Exalted, provided wealth (to the people) and they wore clothes other than the woolen, and were spared from work, and their mosque became vast. The foul smell that caused trouble to them became non-existent.

Abu Hurairah said: While Umar bin al-Khattab was making a speech on Friday (in the mosque), a man came in. Umar said: Are you detained from prayer ? The man said: As soon as I heard the call for prayer, I perfumed ablution. Then Umar said: Only ablution ? Did you not hear the Messenger of Allah صلی اللہ علیہ وسلم say: When any one of you comes for Friday (prayer) he should take a bath.

Abu Saeed al-Khudri reported the Messenger of Allah صلی اللہ علیہ وسلم as saying: Taking bath on Friday is necessary for every adult.

Abdur-Rahman bin Abi Saeed al-Khudri quotes his father as saying: The Prophet صلی اللہ علیہ وسلم said: Washing and the use of tooth-stick are necessary for every adult (person) on Friday; and everyone should apply perfume whatever one has. The narrator Bukair did not mention of Abdur-Rahman; and about perfume he said that even it might be of the kind used by women.