Musnad Ahmad 11694

Translation

✧ A man asked him about washing the head, and he said: "Three handfuls, or three scoops, are enough for you." Then he joined his hands and said: "O Abu Sa'id, I am a man with much hair." He said: "The Messenger of God ﷺ had more hair than you and was purer."

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What scholars said about it

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• Ibn Rajab

  عطية هو العوفي فيه ضعف مشهور

  machine translationʿAṭiyyah is al-ʿAwfī; there is a well-known weakness (ḍaʿf) in him. Report a problem

  in مسند أحمد, p. 11814

Other narrations of this report

Sahih al-Bukhari 255Sahih Muslim 320Sunan an-Nasa'i 227Muwatta' Malik 2-70

Narrators

1. 1
   Abū Saʿīd al-Khudrī

   He and his father were Companions (ṣuḥbah).d. 63 AH, or 64 AH, or 65 AH, or 74 AH
   أَبُو سَعِيدٍ الْخُدْرِيُّله ولأبيه صحبة
   عن
2. 2
   ʿAṭiyyah

   truthful (ṣadūq), makes many mistakes, he was a Shīʿī who practised concealment (mudallis)d. 111 AH, Ibn Ḥajar said in "Tahdhīb al-Tahdhīb": also said: the year (127 AH), mentioned by Ibn Qāniʿ, and al-Qarrāb
   عَطِيَّةَصدوق يخطئ كثيرا ، وكان شيعيا مدلسا
   عن
3. 3
   Fuḍayl b. Marzūq

   Truthful (ṣadūq), errs, accused of Shīʿismd. around 160 AH
   فُضَيْلٌ - يَعْنِي ابْنَ مَرْزُوقٍصدوق يهم ورمي بالتشيع
   حدثنا
4. 4
   Yaḥyá b. Ādam

   trustworthy (thiqah), a memorizer (ḥāfiẓ), virtuous (fāḍil)d. 203 AH
   يَحْيَى بْنُ آدَمَثقة حافظ فاضل
   حدثنا
5. 5
   Aḥmad b. Ḥanbal

   Trustworthy (thiqah), a memorizer (ḥāfiẓ), a jurist (faqīh), an authority (ḥujjah).d. 241 AH, Abū Umayyah Muḥammad b. Ibrāhīm al-Ṭarsūsī said: 242 AH, and no one followed him in his view
   أحمد بن حنبلثقة حافظ فقيه حجة

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