al-Matalib al-'Aliyah 60
✧ Cleaning Oneself After Relieving Oneself
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قَالَ أَبُو يَعْلَى: حَدَّثَنَا أَحْمَدُ بْنُ عِمْرَانَ الْأَخْنَسِيُّ، ثَنَا مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ فُضَيْلٍ، ثَنَا إِبْرَاهِيمُ الْهَجَرِيُّ، عَنْ أَبِي الْأَحْوَصِ، عَنْ عَبْدِ اللهِ ؓ عَنْ رَسُولِ اللهِ ﷺ قَالَ:
« إِنَّ اللهَ وِتْرٌ يُحِبُّ الْوِتْرَ، فَإِذَا اسْتَجْمَرْتَ فَأَوْتِرْ
Translation
Chain of narrators
- Abū Yaʿlá
- Aḥmad b. ʿImrān al-Akhnasī
- Muḥammad b. Fuḍayl
- Ibrāhīm al-Hajarī
- Abū al-Aḥwaṣ
- ʿAbdullāh
- Rasūl Allāh ﷺ
✧ God is One (witr) and loves the odd number, so when you perform istijmar (using stones to clean), do so an odd number of times.
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Other narrations of this report
Sahih Muslim 237aSunan Abi Dawud 40Sunan an-Nasa'i 44Sunan ad-Darimi 697al-Sunan al-Kubra (al-Bayhaqi) 505al-Sunan al-Kubra (al-Nasa'i) 42
Narrators
- One of the earliest and foremost (al-sābiqūn al-awwalūn), and one of the leading scholars among the Companions; his virtues are manyd. 28 AH, or 32 AH, 33 AHعَبْدُ اللهِ بْنُ مَسْعُودٍمن السابقين الأولين ، ومن كبار العلماء من الصحابة ، مناقبه جمةعن
- trustworthy (thiqah)d. during the days of al-Ḥajjāj b. Yūsufأَبِي الْأَحْوَصِثقةعن
- Weak in ḥadīth (layyin al-ḥadīth); he raised statements that were only the Companions' (mawqūfāt) to the Prophet ﷺd. between 141 and 150 AHإِبْرَاهِيمُ الْهَجَرِيُّلين الحديث ، رفع موقوفاتحدثنا
- truthful (ṣadūq), knowledgeable (ʿārif), accused of Shīʿism (tashayyuʿ)d. 194 AH, or 195 AHمُحَمَّدُ بْنُ فُضَيْلٍصدوق عارف ، رمي بالتشيعحدثنا
- d. 228 AHأَحْمَدُ بْنُ عِمْرَانَ الْأَخْنَسِيُّحدثنا
- d. 307 AHأَبُو يَعْلَى
Who each narrator was and how reliable, from hdith.com
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