al-Sunan al-Kubra (al-Nasa'i) 20
✧ Prohibition of Facing the Qibla, and of Turning to it when Necessary, and the Command to Face the East and the West.
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أَخْبَرَنَا مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ مَنْصُورٍ قَالَ حَدَّثَنَا سُفْيَانُ عَنِ الزُّهْرِيِّ عَنْ عَطَاءِ بْنِ يَزِيدَ عَنْ أَبِي أَيُّوبَ الْأَنْصَارِيُّ
أَنَّ النَّبِيَّ ﷺ قَالَ «لَا تَسْتَقْبِلُوا الْقِبْلَةَ وَلَا تَسْتَدْبِرُوهَا لِغَائِطٍ وَلَا بَوْلٍ وَلَكِنْ شَرِّقُوا أَوْ غَرِّبُوا»
Translation
Chain of narrators
- Muḥammad b. Manṣūr
- Sufyān
- al-Zuhrī
- ʿAṭāʾ b. Yazīd
- Abū Ayyūb al-Anṣārī
"Do not face towards the Qiblah nor turn your backs toward it when defecating or urinating, rather face toward the east or the west." (Using translation from Nasāʾī 21)
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