Sahih al-Bukhari 255
Pouring water thrice on one's head
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حَدَّثَنَا مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ بَشَّارٍ قَالَ حَدَّثَنَا غُنْدَرٌ قَالَ حَدَّثَنَا شُعْبَةُ عَنْ مِخْوَلِ بْنِ رَاشِدٍ عَنْ مُحَمَّدِ بْنِ عَلِيٍّ عَنْ جَابِرِ بْنِ عَبْدِ اللَّهِ قَالَ
كَانَ النَّبِيُّ ﷺ يُفْرِغُ عَلَى رَأْسِهِ ثَلاَثًا
Translation
Chain of narrators
- Muḥammad b. Bashhār
- Ghundar
- Shuʿbah
- Mikhwal b. Rāshid
- Muḥammad b. ʿAlī
- Jābir b. ʿAbdullāh
The Prophet ﷺ used to pour water three times on his head.
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Other narrations of this report
Sahih Muslim 320Sunan an-Nasa'i 227Muwatta' Malik 2-70Musnad Ahmad 14430Musnad Ahmad 25107al-Sunan al-Kubra (al-Nasa'i) 227
Narrators
- Companion (ṣaḥābī)d. al-Haytham b. ʿAdī said, and Khalīfah b. Khayyāṭ in some reports from them: 68 AH. Abū Sulaymān b. Zabr said: 72 AH. Muḥammad b. Saʿd said, and al-Haytham b. ʿAdī in another report: 73 AH. Muḥammad b. Yaḥyā b. Ḥabbān said: 77 AH. Abū ʿAwn al-Madanī and others said: 78 AH. Abū Nuʿaym and Khalīfah b. Khayyāṭ in another report said: 79 AHجَابِرُ بْنُ عَبْدِ اللَّهِ بْنِ عَمْرِو بْنِ حَرَامٍ الْأَنْصَارِيُّصحابيعن
- trustworthy (thiqah), excellent (fāḍil)d. 114 AH, or 118 AH, also said: 115 AH, also said: 116 AH, also said: 117 AHمُحَمَّدِ بْنِ عَلِيٍّثقة فاضلعن
- trustworthy (thiqah), accused of Shiism (tashayyuʿ)d. after 140 AHمِخْوَلِ بْنِ رَاشِدٍثقة ، نسب إلى التشيععن
- Trustworthy (thiqah), a retentive memorizer (ḥāfiẓ), meticulous (mutqin)d. 160 AHشُعْبَةُثقة حافظ , متقنحدثنا
- Trustworthy (thiqah), his book was sound (ṣaḥīḥ al-kitāb), except that he had some heedlessness (ghaflah)d. 192 AH or 193 AH or 194 AHغُنْدَرٌثقة صحيح الكتاب إلا أن فيه غفلةحدثنا
- trustworthy (thiqah)d. 252 AHمُحَمَّدُ بْنُ بَشَّارٍثقةحدثنا
- a mountain of memorization and the leader of the world in the comprehension of hadith (jabal al-ḥifẓ wa-imām al-dunyā fī fiqh al-ḥadīth)d. 256 AHالْبُخَارِيُّجبل الحفظ وإمام الدنيا في فقه الحديث
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Commentaries
Fatḥ al-Bārī (Ibn Ḥajar)
Fatḥ al-Bārī (Ibn Rajab)
ʿUmdat al-Qārī (Badr al-Dīn al-ʿAynī)
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