al-Matalib al-'Aliyah 172
✧ Ablution after Touching the Private Part
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قَالَ أَبُو يَعْلَى: حَدَّثَنَا الْجَرَّاحُ بْنُ مَخْلَدٍ، ثَنَا عُمَرُ بْنُ يُونُسَ، ثَنَا الْمُفَضَّلُ بْنُ ثَوَابٍ رَجُلٌ مِنْ أَهْلِ الْيَمَنِ، حَدَّثَنِي حُسَيْنُ بْنُ وَدَّاعٍ، عَنْ أَبِيهِ، عَنْ سَيْفِ بْنِ عُبَيْدِ اللهِ الْحِمْيَرِيِّ قَالَ:
دَخَلْتُ أَنَا وَرِجَالٌ مَعِي عَلَى عَائِشَةَ ؓ، فَسَأَلْنَاهَا عَنِ الرَّجُلِ يَمَسُّ فَرْجَهُ، وَعَنِ الْمَرْأَةِ تَمَسُّ فَرْجَهَا، فَقَالَتْ: سَمِعْتُ رَسُولَ اللهِ ﷺ يَقُولُ: « مَا أُبَالِي إِيَّاهُ مَسِسْتُ أَوْ أَنْفِي
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Chain of narrators
- Abū Yaʿlá
- al-Jarrāḥ b. Makhlad
- ʿUmar b. Yūnus
- al-Mufaḍḍal b. Thawāb a man Min Ahl al-Yaman
- Ḥusayn b. and Ddāʿ
- his father
- Sayf b. ʿUbaydullāh al-Ḥimyarī
✧ I and some men with me entered upon 'A'ishah ؓ, and we asked her about a man touching his private part and a woman touching her private part. She said, "I heard the Messenger of Allah ﷺ say, 'I do not care if I touch it or my nose.'"
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- Abū Bakr Aḥmad b. al-Ḥusayn al-Bayhaqī
هذا حديث منكر روينا خلافه عنها
in المطالب العالية, p. 172 - Ibn Ḥajar al-ʿAsqalānī
إسناده مجهول
machine translationIts chain of transmission is unknown (majhūl).
in المطالب العالية, p. 172 - Dāraquṭnī
ورواته مجهولون لا تثبت بهم حجة
in المطالب العالية, p. 172
Other narrations of this report
Musnad Ahmad 16286al-Mu'jam al-Kabir (al-Tabarani) 8259al-Mu'jam al-Kabir (al-Tabarani) 9245Musannaf Ibn Abi Shaybah 1750Musannaf 'Abd al-Razzaq 429Musnad al-Tayalisi 1194
Narrators
- Mother of the Believers, the most knowledgeable woman in jurisprudence absolutely (afqah al-nisāʾ muṭlaqan)d. 57 AH, or 58 AHعَائِشَةُ بِنْتُ أَبِي بَكْرٍ الصِّدِّيقِأم المؤمنين ، أفقه النساء مطلقاسألنا
- سَيْفِ بْنِ عُبَيْدِ اللهِ الْحِمْيَرِيِّعن
- أبيهعن
- حسين بن وداعحدثني
- الْمُفَضَّلُ بْنُ ثَوَابٍ رَجُلٌ مِنْ أَهْلِ الْيَمَنِحدثنا
- trustworthy (thiqah)d. 206 AHعُمَرُ بْنُ يُونُسَثقةحدثنا
- trustworthy (thiqah)d. close to 250 AHالْجَرَّاحُ بْنُ مَخْلَدٍثقةحدثنا
- d. 307 AHأَبُو يَعْلَى
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