Musnad Ahmad 18329

Translation

✧ I was sitting with ‘Abd Allāh and Abū Mūsā al-Ash‘arī. Abū Mūsā said to ‘Abd Allāh, “If a man does not find water, is he not to pray?” ‘Abd Allāh said, “No.” Abū Mūsā said, “Do you not remember when ‘Ammār said to ‘Umar: Do you not remember when the Messenger of Allah ﷺ sent me and you with camels, and I became ritually impure and rolled in the dust? When I returned to the Messenger of Allah ﷺ and told him, the Messenger of Allah ﷺ laughed and said, ‘It would have sufficed you to do this,’ and he struck the ground with his palms, then wiped both his palms together, and wiped his face once with one strike.” ‘Abd Allāh said, “No doubt, I have not seen ‘Umar accept that.” Abū Mūsā said to him, “Then what about this verse in Sūrat al-Nisā’: {But if you do not find water, then perform tayammum with clean earth}?” He said, “And ‘Abd Allāh did not know what to say. He said, ‘If we gave them a concession in tayammum, one of them would be quick, whenever the water was cold on his skin, to perform tayammum.’”

Notes

• قَالَ عَفَّانُ وَأَنْكَرَهُ يَحْيَى يَعْنِي ابْنَ سَعِيدٍ فَسَأَلْتُ حَفْصَ بْنَ غِيَاثٍ فَقَالَ كَانَ الْأَعْمَشُ يُحَدِّثُنَا بِهِ عَنْ سَلَمَةَ بْنِ كُهَيْلٍ وَذَكَرَ أَبَا وَائِلٍ

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• Aḥmad b. Ḥanbal

  قال عفان وأنكره يحيى يعني ابن سعيد فسألت حفص بن غياث فقال كان الأعمش يحدثنا به عن سلمة بن كهيل وذكر أبا وائل

  in مسند أحمد, p. 18553

Other narrations of this report

Sahih al-Bukhari 340

Narrators

1. 1
   ʿAbdullāh b. Masʿūd

   One of the earliest and foremost (al-sābiqūn al-awwalūn), and one of the leading scholars among the Companions; his virtues are manyd. 28 AH, or 32 AH, 33 AH
   عَبْدُ اللهِ بْنُ مَسْعُودٍمن السابقين الأولين ، ومن كبار العلماء من الصحابة ، مناقبه جمة
   صريح في السماع
2. 2
   Shaqīq b. Salamah

   trustworthy (thiqah)d. Khalīfah b. Khayyāṭ said: 82 AH, Ibn Mandah said: 99 AH
   شَقِيقٌثقة
   حدثنا
3. 3
   al-Aʿmash

   Trustworthy (thiqah), a retentive memorizer (ḥāfiẓ), knowledgeable in the recitations (qirāʾāt), scrupulous (wariʿ), but he practiced concealment (tadlīs)d. Abū ʿAwānah said, and ʿAbd Allāh b. Dāwūd: 147 AH. Wakīʿ said, and more than one: 148 AH. And al-Khaṭīb considered it correct. Also said: 145 AH
   سُلَيْمَانُ الْأَعْمَشُثقة حافظ , عارف بالقراءات ورع لكنه يدلس
   حدثنا
4. 4
   ʿAbd al-Wāḥid b. Ziyād

   Trustworthy (thiqah); there is some criticism concerning his narrations from al-Aʿmash aloned. 176 AH, or 177 AH, or 179 AH
   عَبْدُ الْوَاحِدِثقة ، في حديثه عن الأعمش وحده مقال
   حدثنا
5. 5
   ʿAffān

   trustworthy, precise (thiqah thabt)d. 219 AH, or 220 AH
   عَفَّانُثقة ثبت
   حدثنا
6. 6
   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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