Idhkhir (a sweet-scented plant exempted from the ban on cutting in the sanctuary of Mecca)

Idhkhir is a plant with a sweet smell. ¹

It is not lawful to cut any tree of the sacred precinct of Mecca that grew without human hand, but idhkhir is excepted and may be cut, because the Prophet ﷺ made an exception for it on account of the need for it, as in the report of al-Bukhari and Muslim from Ibn Abbas on the sanctity of Mecca. ¹ Al-Abbas said: "except idhkhir, for our goldsmiths and our graves", and the Prophet said "except idhkhir", and one version has "for our graves and our houses". ² Where cutting and using it is allowed, the use must not be for perfume. ² The jurists treat this in the chapter on the pilgrimage, under what is forbidden in the sanctuary: game hunting and cutting trees and the like. ²