Musnad Ahmad 18991

Translation

✧ The Messenger of Allah ﷺ said to me, “When you perform ablution, sniff water into your nose, and when you use stones for cleansing, use an odd number.”

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• Ibn Daqīq al-ʿĪd

  رجال إسناده ثقات

  machine translationThe men of its chain are trustworthy (thiqāt). Report a problem

  in مسند أحمد, p. 19230

Other narrations of this report

Sahih Muslim 237aSunan Abi Dawud 40Sunan an-Nasa'i 44

Narrators

1. 1
   Salamah b. Qays al-Ghaṭafānī

   Companion (ṣaḥābī)
   سَلَمَةُ بْنُ قَيْسٍ الْغَطَفَانِيُّصحابي
   عن
2. 2
   Hilāl b. Yasāf al-Ashjaʿī

   trustworthy (thiqah)d. between 91 and 100 AH
   هِلَالِ بْنِ يَسَافٍثقة
   عن
3. 3
   Manṣūr b. al-Muʿtamir

   Trustworthy (thiqah), reliable (thabt), and he did not commit tadlīs (lā yudallis)d. 132 AH, or 133 AH
   مَنْصُورٍثقة ثبت ، وكان لا يدلس
   عن
4. 4
   Sufyān al-Thawrī

   trustworthy (thiqah), a memorizer (ḥāfiẓ), a jurist (faqīh), devout (ʿābid), an imam and authority (ḥujjah)d. 159 AH or 160 AH or 161 AH or 162 AH
   وَالثَّوْرِيُّثقة حافظ , فقيه عابد ، إمام حجة
   حدثنا
5. 5
   ʿAbd al-Razzāq

   Trustworthy (thiqah), a retentive memorizer (ḥāfiẓ), a renowned author (muṣannif); he went blind at the end of his life and his memory changed (taghayyara), and he had Shiite leanings (kāna yatashayyaʿ)d. 211 AH
   عَبْدُ الرَّزَّاقِثقة حافظ مصنف شهير ، عمي في آخر عمره فتغير ، وكان يتشيع
   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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