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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
  1. Muḥammad b. Bashhār
  2. Ghundar
  3. Shuʿbah
  4. Mikhwal b. Rāshid
  5. Muḥammad b. ʿAlī
  6. Jābir b. ʿAbdullāh

The Prophet ﷺ used to pour water three times on his head.

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  1. 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 AH
    جَابِرُ بْنُ عَبْدِ اللَّهِ بْنِ عَمْرِو بْنِ حَرَامٍ الْأَنْصَارِيُّصحابي
    عن
  2. trustworthy (thiqah), excellent (fāḍil)d. 114 AH, or 118 AH, also said: 115 AH, also said: 116 AH, also said: 117 AH
    مُحَمَّدِ بْنِ عَلِيٍّثقة فاضل
    عن
  3. trustworthy (thiqah), accused of Shiism (tashayyuʿ)d. after 140 AH
    مِخْوَلِ بْنِ رَاشِدٍثقة ، نسب إلى التشيع
    عن
  4. Trustworthy (thiqah), a retentive memorizer (ḥāfiẓ), meticulous (mutqin)d. 160 AH
    شُعْبَةُثقة حافظ , متقن
    حدثنا
  5. Trustworthy (thiqah), his book was sound (ṣaḥīḥ al-kitāb), except that he had some heedlessness (ghaflah)d. 192 AH or 193 AH or 194 AH
    غُنْدَرٌثقة صحيح الكتاب إلا أن فيه غفلة
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  6. trustworthy (thiqah)d. 252 AH
    مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ بَشَّارٍثقة
    حدثنا
  7. 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 AH
    الْبُخَارِيُّجبل 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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