Sunan Abi Dawud 224

Translation

When the Prophet (May peace be upon him) wanted to eat or sleep, he would perform ablution. She meant that (the prophet did so) when he was sexually defiled.

Notes

• تَعْنِي وَهُوَ جُنُبٌ

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What scholars said about it

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• al-Tirmidhi

  حديث الأسود عن عائشة أن النبي صلى الله عليه وسلم كان يتوضأ قبل أن ينام يعني جنبا أصح من حديث أبي إسحاق عن الأسود عن عائشة كان النبي صلى الله عليه وسلم ينام وهو جنب ولا يمس ماءويرون أن هذا غلط من أبي إسحاق

  machine translationThe hadith of al-Aswad from ʿĀʾishah, that the Prophet ﷺ used to perform ablution before sleeping, meaning when in a state of major impurity (junub), is more sound (aṣaḥḥ) than the hadith of Abū Isḥāq from al-Aswad from ʿĀʾishah: "The Prophet ﷺ would sleep while in a state of major impurity and would not touch water." They consider this to be a mistake (ghalaṭ) on the part of Abū Isḥāq. Report a problem

  in سنن أبي داود, p. 223
• al-Tirmidhi

  هذا أصح من حديث أبي إسحاق كان النبي ينام وهو جنب ولا يمس ماء

  machine translationThis is more authentic than the hadith of Abū Isḥāq: "The Prophet used to sleep in a state of janābah without touching water." Report a problem

  in سنن أبي داود, p. 223
• Dāraquṭnī

  يشبه أن يكون الخبران أي خبر الأسود بذكر الوضوء قبل النوم على جنابة وحديث أبي إسحاق بأنه لم يمس ماء صحيحين لأن عائشة قالت ربما قدم الغسل وربما أخره

  machine translationIt seems that both reports could be authentic (ṣaḥīḥ): the report of al-Aswad mentioning ablution before sleeping while in a state of janābah, and the hadith of Abū Isḥāq saying that he did not touch water, because ʿĀʾishah said: Sometimes he would bring the bathing forward and sometimes he would delay it. Report a problem

  in سنن أبي داود, p. 223
• al-Albani

  سكت عنه [وقد قال في رسالته لأهل مكة كل ما سكت عنه فهو صالح]

  machine translationHe (Abū Dāwūd) remained silent about it [and he said in his letter to the people of Mecca: everything I have remained silent about is acceptable (ṣāliḥ)]. Report a problem

  in صحيح سنن أبي داود, p. 224

Same hadith, other wordings

• Misykatul Mashabih 453وَعَنْ عَائِشَةَ رَضِيَ اللَّهُ عَنْهَا قَالَتْ: كَانَ النَّبِيُّ صَلَّى اللَّهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ إِذَا كَانَ جُنُبًا فَأَرَادَ أَنْ يَأْكُلَ أَوْ ينَام تَوَضَّأ وضوءه للصَّلَاة
• Shahih Muslim 305bكَانَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ ﷺ إِذَا كَانَ جُنُبًا فَأَرَادَ أَنْ يَأْكُلَ أَوْ يَنَامَ تَوَضَّأَ وُضُوءَهُ لِلصَّلاَةِ

Other narrations of this report

Sahih al-Bukhari 290Sahih Muslim 306cSunan an-Nasa'i 257Musnad Ahmad 24714Musnad Ahmad 26383Sunan ad-Darimi 2123al-Sunan al-Kubra (al-Bayhaqi) 14202al-Sunan al-Kubra (al-Bayhaqi) 980al-Sunan al-Kubra (al-Bayhaqi) 998al-Sunan al-Kubra (al-Nasa'i) 251al-Sunan al-Kubra (al-Nasa'i) 6871al-Sunan al-Kubra (al-Nasa'i) 9027

Narrators

1. 1
   ʿĀʾishah bt. Abū Bakr al-Ṣiddīq

   Mother of the Believers, the most knowledgeable woman in jurisprudence absolutely (afqah al-nisāʾ muṭlaqan)d. 57 AH, or 58 AH
   عَائِشَةُ بِنْتُ أَبِي بَكْرٍ الصِّدِّيقِأم المؤمنين ، أفقه النساء مطلقا
   عن
2. 2
   al-Aswad b. Yazīd al-Nakhaʿī

   Mukhaḍram (lived in both the pre-Islamic and Islamic eras), trustworthy (thiqah), prolific narrator (mukthir), jurist (faqīh)d. 74 AH, or 75 AH
   الْأَسْوَدِمخضرم ، ثقة ، مكثر ، فقيه
   عن
3. 3
   Ibrāhīm al-Nakhaʿī

   Trustworthy (thiqah), except that he often narrates with omission of the Companion (irsāl).d. 94 AH, or 95 AH, or 96 AH
   إِبْرَاهِيمَثقة إلا أنه يرسل كثيرا
   عن
4. 4
   al-Ḥakam b. ʿUtaybah al-Kindī

   trustworthy (thiqah), firmly reliable (thabt), a jurist (faqīh), except that he sometimes practised concealment (tadlīs)d. 113 AH, or 114 AH, or 115; also said 110 AH
   الْحَكَمِثقة ثبت فقيه ، إلا أنه ربما دلس
   عن
5. 5
   Shuʿbah

   Trustworthy (thiqah), a retentive memorizer (ḥāfiẓ), meticulous (mutqin)d. 160 AH
   شُعْبَةُثقة حافظ , متقن
   حدثنا
6. 6
   Yaḥyā

   trustworthy (thiqah), meticulous (mutqin), a memorizer (ḥāfiẓ), an imam and exemplar (qudwah)d. 198 AH
   يَحْيَىثقة متقن حافظ ، إمام قدوة
   حدثنا
7. 7
   Musaddad

   trustworthy, a memorizer (thiqah ḥāfiẓ)d. 228 AH
   مُسَدَّدٌثقة حافظ
   حدثنا
8. 8
   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

Who each narrator was and how reliable, from hdith.com

Latin names and English verdicts with a dotted underline are machine translations, not reviewed.