Sahih Muslim 246a
The recommendation to increase the area washed for the forehead, arms, and legs well when performing wudu'
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حَدَّثَنِي أَبُو كُرَيْبٍ مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ الْعَلاَءِ وَالْقَاسِمُ بْنُ زَكَرِيَّاءَ بْنِ دِينَارٍ وَعَبْدُ بْنُ حُمَيْدٍ قَالُوا حَدَّثَنَا خَالِدُ بْنُ مَخْلَدٍ عَنْ سُلَيْمَانَ بْنِ بِلاَلٍ حَدَّثَنِي عُمَارَةُ بْنُ غَزِيَّةَ الأَنْصَارِيُّ عَنْ نُعَيْمِ بْنِ عَبْدِ اللَّهِ الْمُجْمِرِ قَالَ
رَأَيْتُ أَبَا هُرَيْرَةَ يَتَوَضَّأُ فَغَسَلَ وَجْهَهُ فَأَسْبَغَ الْوُضُوءَ ثُمَّ غَسَلَ يَدَهُ الْيُمْنَى حَتَّى أَشْرَعَ فِي الْعَضُدِ ثُمَّ يَدَهُ الْيُسْرَى حَتَّى أَشْرَعَ فِي الْعَضُدِ ثُمَّ مَسَحَ رَأْسَهُ ثُمَّ غَسَلَ رِجْلَهُ الْيُمْنَى حَتَّى أَشْرَعَ فِي السَّاقِ ثُمَّ غَسَلَ رِجْلَهُ الْيُسْرَى حَتَّى أَشْرَعَ فِي السَّاقِ ثُمَّ قَالَ هَكَذَا رَأَيْتُ رَسُولَ اللَّهِ ﷺ يَتَوَضَّأُ وَقَالَ قَالَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ ﷺ أَنْتُمُ الْغُرُّ الْمُحَجَّلُونَ يَوْمَ الْقِيَامَةِ مِنْ إِسْبَاغِ الْوُضُوءِ فَمَنِ اسْتَطَاعَ مِنْكُمْ فَلْيُطِلْ غُرَّتَهُ وَتَحْجِيلَهُ
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Chain of narrators
- Abū Kurayb Muḥammad b. al-ʿAlāʾ and -al-Qāsim b. Zakariyyāʾ b. Dīnār Waʿabd b. Ḥumayd
- Khālid b. Makhlad
- Sulaymān b. Bilāl
- ʿUmārah b. Ghaziyyah al-Anṣārī
- Nuʿaym b. ʿAbdullāh al-Mujmir
I saw Abu Huraira perform ablution. He washed his face and washed it well. He then washed his right hand including a portion of his arm. He then washed his left hand including a portion of his arm. He then wiped his head. He then washed his right foot including his shank, and then washed his left foot including shank, and then said: This is how I saw Messenger of Allah ﷺ perform his ablution. And (Abu Huraira) added that the Messenger of Allah ﷺ had observed: You shall have your faces hands and feet bright on the Day of Resurrection because of your perfect ablution. He who can afford among you, let him increase the brightness of his forehead and that of hands and legs.
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Other narrations of this report
Sahih Muslim 249bMusnad Ahmad 4329al-Sunan al-Kubra (al-Bayhaqi) 259Musnad al-Bazzar 9758Musnad Abi Ya'la 5050
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 الصحابةرأيت
- trustworthy (thiqah)d. between 111 and 121 AHنُعَيْمِ بْنِ عَبْدِ اللهِ الْمُجْمِرِثقةعن
- no harm in him (lā baʾs bih)d. 134 AH, or 140 AHعُمَارَةُ بْنُ غَزِيَّةَ الْأَنْصَارِيُّلا بأس بهحدثني
- trustworthy (thiqah)d. 172 AH, or: 177 AHسُلَيْمَانَ بْنِ بِلَالٍثقةعن
- truthful (ṣadūq), inclined to Shīʿism, and he has singular reports (afrād).d. 213 AH, or 214 AH.خَالِدُ بْنُ مَخْلَدٍصدوق يتشيع ، وله أفراد.حدثنا
- trustworthy, a memorizer (thiqah ḥāfiẓ)d. 249 AHوَعَبْدُ بْنُ حُمَيْدٍثقة حافظحدثني
- Trustworthy (thiqah), a retentive memorizer (ḥāfiẓ), an imam, an author of compilations, knowledgeable in jurisprudence (fiqh)d. Muḥammad b. Yaʿqūb said: 261 AH, Makkī b. ʿAbdān said: 259 AHمُسْلِمٌثقة حافظ ، إمام ، مصنف ، عالم بالفقه
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Commentaries
al-Minhāj (Nawawī)
al-Mufham (Abū al-ʿAbbās)
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