Muwatta' Malik 2-115
The Tooth-stick (Siwak)
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وَحَدَّثَنِي عَنْ مَالِكٍ عَنِ ابْنِ شِهَابٍ عَنْ حُمَيْدِ بْنِ عَبْدِ الرَّحْمَنِ بْنِ عَوْفٍ عَنْ أَبِي هُرَيْرَةَ أَنَّهُ قَالَ
لَوْلاَ أَنْ يَشُقَّ عَلَى أُمَّتِهِ لأَمَرَهُمْ بِالسِّوَاكِ مَعَ كُلِّ وُضُوءٍ
Translation
Chain of narrators
- Mālik
- Ibn Shihāb
- Ḥumayd b. ʿAbd al-Raḥman b. ʿAwf
- Abū Hurayrah
Yahya related to me from Malik from Ibn Shihab from Humayd ibn Abdar-Rahman ibn Awf that Abu Hurayra said, "Were it not that he would be overburdening his community he (the Messenger of Allah ﷺ) would have ordered them to use a tooth-stick with each wudu."
Grades by grader
| Mālik b. Anas | Sound | hadithunlocked |
|---|---|---|
| Salim al-Hilali | Mauquf Sahih | fawazahmed0 |
What scholars said about it
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- Ibn Khuzaymah
صححه
machine translationHe declared it sound (ṣaḥḥaḥahu).
in موطأ مالك, p. 133
Other narrations of this report
Jami' at-Tirmidhi 23Musnad Ahmad 1835al-Sunan al-Kubra (al-Bayhaqi) 152al-Mustadrak (al-Hakim) 517
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 الصحابةعن
- Trustworthy (thiqah).d. 95 AH, also said 105 AH, which is an errorحُمَيْدِ بْنِ عَبْدِ الرَّحْمَنِ بْنِ عَوْفٍثقة.عن
- The jurist and memorizer (ḥāfiẓ), whose eminence, precision and reliability are agreed upond. Ḍamrah b. Rabīʿah and others said: 123 AH. The nephew of al-Zuhrī and others said: 124 AH. Ibn Yūnus and others said: 125 AHابْنِ شِهَابٍالفقيه الحافظ ، متفق على جلالته وإتقانه وثبتهعن
- The jurist (al-faqīh), the Imam of the Abode of Migration (Imām Dār al-Hijrah), the head of the proficient masters, and the foremost among the meticulous.d. 178 AH, or 179 AHمَالِكٌالفقيه ، إمام دار الهجرة ، رأس المتقنين ، وكبير المتثبتين
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Commentaries
al-Tamhīd (Ibn ʿAbd al-Barr)
al-Istidhkār
Sharḥ al-Zarqāni (ʿAbd al-Bāqī)
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