al-Sunan al-Kubra (al-Bayhaqi) 246
✧ The comprehensive chapters on the sunnah and obligatory acts of ablution
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أَخْبَرَنَا ) أَبُو عَبْدِ اللهِ مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ عَبْدِ اللهِ الْحَافِظُ، أَنَا أَبُو الْعَبَّاسِ مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ أَحْمَدَ الْمَحْبُوبِيُّ بِمَرْوَ، ثَنَا سَعِيدُ بْنُ مَسْعُودٍ، ثَنَا عُبَيْدُ اللهِ بْنُ مُوسَى، أَنَا إِسْرَائِيلُ ( ح ) وَأَخْبَرَنَا أَبُو عَبْدِ اللهِ، أَنَا أَحْمَدُ بْنُ جَعْفَرٍ الْقَطِيعِيُّ، ثَنَا عَبْدُ اللهِ بْنُ أَحْمَدَ بْنِ حَنْبَلٍ، أَنَا أَبِي، ثَنَا عَبْدُ الرَّزَّاقِ، أَخْبَرَنَا إِسْرَائِيلُ، عَنْ عَامِرِ بْنِ شَقِيقٍ - يَعْنِي ابْنَ جَمْرَةَ - عَنْ شَقِيقِ بْنِ سَلَمَةَ قَالَ:
رَأَيْتُ عُثْمَانَ تَوَضَّأَ. فَذَكَرَ الْحَدِيثَ، قَالَ: فَخَلَّلَ لِحْيَتَهُ ثَلَاثًا حِينَ غَسَلَ وَجْهَهُ، ثُمَّ قَالَ: رَأَيْتُ رَسُولَ اللهِ ﷺ فَعَلَ الَّذِي رَأَيْتُمُونِي فَعَلْتُ
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Chain of narrators
- [Chain 1] Abū ʿAbdullāh Muḥammad b. ʿAbdullāh al-Ḥāfiẓ
- Abū al-ʿAbbās Muḥammad b. Aḥmad al-Maḥbūbī Bimarw
- Saʿīd b. Masʿūd
- ʿUbaydullāh b. Mūsá
- Isrāʾīl [Chain 2] Abū ʿAbdullāh
- Aḥmad b. Jaʿfar al-Qaṭīʿī
- ʿAbdullāh b. Aḥmad b. Ḥanbal
- my father
- ʿAbd al-Razzāq
- Isrāʾīl
- ʿĀmir b. Shaqīq / Ibn Jamrah
- Shaqīq b. Salamah
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I saw ʿUthmān perform ablution. He mentioned the hadith, saying: He ran his fingers through his beard three times when he washed his face, then said: I saw the Messenger of Allah ﷺ do what you saw me do.
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- al-Bukhari
هو حسن
machine translationIt is fair (ḥasan).
in سنن البيهقي الكبرى, p. 246 - al-Bukhari
أصح شيء عندي في التخليل حديث عثمان وهو حديث حسن
machine translationThe most authentic thing in my view regarding running the fingers through the beard (takhlīl) is the hadith of ʿUthmān, and it is a good hadith (ḥasan).
in سنن البيهقي الكبرى, p. 246 - al-Bukhari
حسن وقال أصح شيء عندي في التخليل حديث عثمان
machine translationGood (ḥasan). And he said: The most authentic thing in my view regarding running the fingers through the beard is the hadith of ʿUthmān.
in سنن البيهقي الكبرى, p. 246 - أبو علي الطوسي كردوش
صححه
machine translationHe declared it sound (ṣaḥḥaḥahu).
in سنن البيهقي الكبرى, p. 246
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- Ibn Ḥajar al-ʿAsqalānī
عامر بن شقيق مختلف فيه
machine translationʿĀmir b. Shaqīq is disputed (mukhtalaf fīhi).
in سنن البيهقي الكبرى, p. 246 - Aḥmad b. Ḥanbal
تخليل اللحية قد روي فيه أحاديث ليس يثبت فيه حديث وأحسن شيء فيه حديث شقيق
machine translationHadiths have been narrated about running the fingers through the beard, but none of them is established, and the best thing on it is the hadith of Shaqīq.
in سنن البيهقي الكبرى, p. 246 - al-Bukhari
قال أبو أصح شيء عندي في التخليل حديث عثمان
machine translationAbū said: The most authentic thing in my view regarding running the fingers through the beard is the hadith of ʿUthmān.
in سنن البيهقي الكبرى, p. 246 - al-Bukhari
أصح شيء في هذا الباب حديث عامر بن شقيق عن أبي وائل عن عثمان
machine translationThe most authentic thing on this topic is the hadith of ʿĀmir b. Shaqīq, from Abū Wāʾil, from ʿUthmān.
in سنن البيهقي الكبرى, p. 246
Narrators
- One of the foremost early Muslims (al-sābiqūn al-awwalūn), one of the Four Caliphs, and one of the ten given glad tidings of Paradise (al-ʿashara al-mubashshara)d. 35 AHعُثْمَانُ بْنُ عَفَّانَأحد السابقين الأولين والخلفاء الأربعة ، والعشرة المبشرةرأيت
- trustworthy (thiqah)d. Khalīfah b. Khayyāṭ said: 82 AH, Ibn Mandah said: 99 AHشَقِيقِ بْنِ سَلَمَةَثقةعن
- weak in ḥadīth (layyin al-ḥadīth)d. between 121 and 130 AHعَامِرِ بْنِ شَقِيقٍ - يَعْنِي ابْنَ جَمْرَةَلين الحديثعن
- Trustworthy (thiqah); he was criticized without any valid proofd. Abū Nuʿaym said, and Qaʿnab b. al-Muḥarrar: 160 AH. Hārūn b. Ḥātim said, from Dubays: 161 AH. Khalīfah b. Khayyāṭ said, and Muḥammad b. Saʿd: 162 AH, Mughulṭāy said: 164 AHإِسْرَائِيلُثقة ، تُكلم فيه بلا حجةأخبرنا
- 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
- 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 viewأَبِيثقة حافظ فقيه حجةأنا
- trustworthy (thiqah)d. 290 AH, or 297عَبْدُ اللهِ بْنُ أَحْمَدَ بْنِ حَنْبَلٍثقةحدثنا
- d. 368 AHأَحْمَدُ بْنُ جَعْفَرٍ الْقَطِيعِيُّأنا
- d. 403 AH, or 405 AHأَبُو عَبْدِ اللهِأخبرنا
- d. 458 AHالبيهقي
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