al-Sunan al-Kubra (al-Bayhaqi) 222
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( أَخْبَرَنَا ) أَبُو طَاهِرٍ الْفَقِيهُ، أَنَا أَبُو بَكْرٍ مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ الْحُسَيْنِ الْقَطَّانُ، ثَنَا أَحْمَدُ بْنُ يُوسُفَ السُّلَمِيُّ، ثَنَا عَبْدُ الرَّزَّاقِ، أَنَا مَعْمَرٌ، عَنْ هَمَّامِ بْنِ مُنَبِّهٍ قَالَ: هَذَا مَا حَدَّثَنَا أَبُو هُرَيْرَةَ، عَنْ رَسُولِ اللهِ ﷺ قَالَ:
إِذَا تَوَضَّأَ أَحَدُكُمْ فَلْيَسْتَنْشِقْ بِمَنْخِرَيْهِ مَاءً ثُمَّ لِيَنْثُرْ
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Chain of narrators
- Abū Ṭāhir al-Faqīh
- Abū Bakr Muḥammad b. al-Ḥusayn al-Qaṭṭān
- Aḥmad b. Yūsuf al-Sulamī
- ʿAbd al-Razzāq
- Maʿmar
- Hammām b. Munabbih
- Hadhā Mā
- Abū Hurayrah
- Rasūl Allāh ﷺ
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When one of you performs ablution, let him sniff water into his nostrils, then blow it out.
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- Ibn ʿAbd al-Barr
هذا أبين حديث في الاستنشاق والاستنثار وأصحها إسنادا
machine translationThis is the clearest hadith on sniffing water into the nose (istinshāq) and blowing it out (istinthār), and the soundest of them in its chain of transmission.
in سنن البيهقي الكبرى, p. 222
Other narrations of this report
Narrators
- The illustrious Companion, the memorizer among the Companions (ḥāfiẓ al-ṣaḥābah)d. 57 AH, or: 58 AH, or: 59 AHأَبُو هُرَيْرَةَ الدَّوْسِيُّالصحابي الجليل ، حافظ الصحابةحدثنا
- trustworthy (thiqah)d. 131 AH, or: 132 AHهَمَّامِ بْنِ مُنَبِّهٍثقةعن
- Trustworthy (thiqah), reliable (thabt), excellent, except that there is some weakness in his narration from Thābit, al-Aʿmash, ʿĀṣim b. Abī al-Najūd and Hishām b. ʿUrwah, and likewise in what he narrated in Basrad. at the beginning of 150 AH, or: 152 AH, or: 153 AH, or: 154 AH, 155 AHمَعْمَرٌثقة ثبت فاضل ، إلا أن في روايته عن ثابت والأعمش وعاصم بن أبي النجود ، وهشام بن عروة شيئا ، وكذا فيما حدث به بالبصرةأنا
- 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 AHعَبْدُ الرَّزَّاقِثقة حافظ مصنف شهير ، عمي في آخر عمره فتغير ، وكان يتشيعحدثنا
- a reliable memorizer (ḥāfiẓ), trustworthy (thiqah)d. 263 AH, or 264 AHأَحْمَدُ بْنُ يُوسُفَ السُّلَمِيُّحافظ ثقةحدثنا
- أَبُو بَكْرٍ مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ الْحُسَيْنِ الْقَطَّانُأنا
- d. 410 AHأَبُو طَاهِرٍ الْفَقِيهُأخبرنا
- d. 458 AHالبيهقي
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