al-Matalib al-'Aliyah 87
✧ The Siwak
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الْحَارِثُ: حَدَّثَنَا الْحَكَمُ بْنُ مُوسَى، ثَنَا عِيسَى بْنُ يُونُسَ، ثَنَا أَبُو بَكْرِ بْنُ عَبْدِ اللهِ بْنِ أَبِي مَرْيَمَ، عَنْ ضَمْرَةَ بْنِ حَبِيبٍ ؓ قَالَ:
« نَهَى رَسُولُ اللهِ ﷺ عَنِ السِّوَاكِ بِعُودِ الرَّيْحَانِ، وَقَالَ: إِنَّهُ يُحَرِّكُ عِرْقَ الْجُذَامِ
Translation
Chain of narrators
- al-Ḥakam b. Mūsá
- ʿĪsá b. Yūnus
- Abū Bakr b. ʿAbdullāh b. Abū Maryam
- Ḍamrah b. Ḥabīb
✧ The Messenger of Allah ﷺ prohibited using a basil twig as a siwak, and he said: "It stirs up the vein of leprosy."
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- Ibn Ḥajar al-ʿAsqalānī
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in المطالب العالية, p. 87
Other narrations of this report
Narrators
- trustworthy (thiqah)d. 130 AHضَمْرَةُ بْنُ حَبِيبٍ الزُّبَيْدِيُّثقةعن
- Weak (ḍaʿīf); his house had been robbed, and he became confused (ikhtalaṭa).d. 156 AHأَبُو بَكْرِ بْنُ عَبْدِ اللهِ بْنِ أَبِي مَرْيَمَضعيف ، وكان قد سرق بيته ، فاختلطحدثنا
- trustworthy and reliable (thiqah maʾmūn)d. 187 AH, or 188 AH, or 191 AHعِيسَى بْنُ يُونُسَثقة مأمونحدثنا
- truthful (ṣadūq)d. 232 AH, also said: 235 AHالْحَكَمُ بْنُ مُوسَىصدوقحدثنا
- d. 279 AH or 282 AHالْحَارِثُ
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