Sunan Abi Dawud 114

Translation

he wiped his head so much so that drops (of water) were about to trickle down. He then washed his feet three times and said: This is how the Messenger of Allah ﷺ performed ablutions.

Notes

• حَدَّثَنَا عُثْمَانُ بْنُ أَبِي شَيْبَةَ، حَدَّثَنَا أَبُو نُعَيْمٍ، حَدَّثَنَا رَبِيعَةُ الْكِنَانِيُّ، عَنِ الْمِنْهَالِ بْنِ عَمْرٍو، عَنْ زِرِّ بْنِ حُبَيْشٍ، أَنَّهُ سَمِعَ عَلِيًّا، رضى الله عنه وَسُئِلَ عَنْ وُضُوءِ، رَسُولِ اللَّهِ صلى الله عليه وسلم فَذَكَرَ الْحَدِيثَ وَقَالَ وَمَسَحَ عَلَى رَأْسِهِ حَتَّى لَمَّا يَقْطُرْ وَغَسَلَ رِجْلَيْهِ ثَلاَثًا ثَلاَثًا ثُمَّ قَالَ هَكَذَا كَانَ وُضُوءُ رَسُولِ اللَّهِ صلى الله عليه وسلم

  machine translationʿUthmān b. Abī Shaybah narrated to us, Abū Nuʿaym narrated to us, Rabīʿah al-Kinānī narrated to us, from al-Minhāl b. ʿAmr, from Zirr b. Ḥubaysh, that he heard ʿAlī, may God be pleased with him, when he was asked about the ablution of the Messenger of God ﷺ. He mentioned the hadith and said: "And he wiped over his head until it almost dripped, and he washed his feet three times each. Then he said: 'This is how the ablution of the Messenger of God ﷺ was.'" Report a problem

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What scholars said about it

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• أبو زرعة الرازي

  أعله إنما يروى عن المنهال عن أبي حية عن علي

  machine translationHe declared it defective (muʿall), saying that it is only narrated from al-Minhāl, from Abū Ḥayyah, from ʿAlī. Report a problem

  in سنن أبي داود, p. 114
• Ibn al-Qaṭṭān

  لا أعلم لهذا الحديث علة

  machine translationI do not know of any defect in this hadith. Report a problem

  in سنن أبي داود, p. 114
• أبو زرعة الرازي

  أعله بأنه إنما يروى عن المنهال عن أبي حية عن علي

  machine translationHe declared it defective (muʿall) on the grounds that it is only narrated from al-Minhāl, from Abū Ḥayyah, from ʿAlī. Report a problem

  in سنن أبي داود, p. 114
• Abū Ḥatim al-Rāzī

  حديث المنهال عن أبي حية الوادعي عن علي عن النبي صلى الله عليه وسلم أشبه

  machine translationThe hadith of al-Minhāl, from Abū Ḥayyah al-Wādiʿī, from ʿAlī, from the Prophet ﷺ is more likely (to be correct). Report a problem

  in سنن أبي داود, p. 114

Other narrations of this report

Musnad Ahmad 1205Musnad Ahmad 1352Musnad Ahmad 971Musannaf Ibn Abi Shaybah 54Musannaf 'Abd al-Razzaq 120Musnad al-Bazzar 473

Narrators

1. 1
   ʿAlī b. Abū Ṭālib

   One of the ten (promised Paradise)d. 40 AH
   عَلِيُّ بْنُ أَبِي طَالِبٍأحد العشرة
   سمع
2. 2
   Zirr b. Ḥubaysh al-Thaʿlabī

   trustworthy (thiqah), eminentd. 81 AH, or: 82 AH, or: 83 AH
   زِرِّ بْنِ حُبَيْشٍثقة جليل
   عن
3. 3
   al-Minhāl b. ʿAmr

   truthful (ṣadūq), who sometimes made mistakes (rubbamā wahima)d. between 111 and 120 AH
   الْمِنْهَالِ بْنِ عَمْرٍوصدوق ربما وهم
   عن
4. 4
   Rabīʿah al-Kinānī

   truthful (ṣadūq)
   رَبِيعَةُ الْكِنَانِيُّصدوق
   حدثنا
5. 5
   Abū Nuʿaym

   trustworthy, precise (thiqah thabt)d. 218 AH, 219 AH
   أَبُو نُعَيْمٍثقة ثبت
   حدثنا
6. 6
   ʿUthmān b. Abī Shaybah

   Trustworthy (thiqah), a renowned memorizer (ḥāfiẓ), though he had some errors (awhām). It is also said: he did not memorize the Qurʾānd. 239 AH
   عُثْمَانُ بْنُ أَبِي شَيْبَةَثقة حافظ شهير ، وله أوهام . وقيل : كان لا يحفظ القرآن
   حدثنا
7. 7
   Abū Dāwūd al-Sijistānī

   Trustworthy (thiqah), a memorizer (ḥāfiẓ), the compiler of the Sunan and other works, one of the senior scholars.d. 275 AH
   أَبُو دَاوُدَ السِّجِسْتَانِيُّثقة ، حافظ , مصنف السنن وغيرها ، من كبار العلماء

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