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Jami' at-Tirmidhi 37

What Has Been Related That The Ears Are Part Of The Head

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حَدَّثَنَا قُتَيْبَةُ حَدَّثَنَا حَمَّادُ بْنُ زَيْدٍ عَنْ سِنَانِ بْنِ رَبِيعَةَ عَنْ شَهْرِ بْنِ حَوْشَبٍ عَنْ أَبِي أُمَامَةَ قَالَ

تَوَضَّأَ النَّبِيُّ ﷺ فَغَسَلَ وَجْهَهُ ثَلاَثًا وَيَدَيْهِ ثَلاَثًا وَمَسَحَ بِرَأْسِهِ وَقَالَ الأُذُنَانِ مِنَ الرَّأْسِ

Translation

Chain of narrators
  1. Qutaybah
  2. Ḥammād b. Zayd
  3. Sinān b. Rabīʿah
  4. Shahr b. Ḥawshab
  5. Abū Umāmah

"The Prophet performed Wudu; so he washed his face three times, and his hands three times, and wiped his head, and he said: "The ears are part of the head."

Notes

  • قَالَ أَبُو عِيسَى قَالَ قُتَيْبَةُ قَالَ حَمَّادٌ لاَ أَدْرِي هَذَا مِنْ قَوْلِ النَّبِيِّ ﷺ أَوْ مِنْ قَوْلِ أَبِي أُمَامَةَ قَالَ وَفِي الْبَابِ عَنْ أَنَسٍ قَالَ أَبُو عِيسَى هَذَا حَدِيثٌ حَسَنٌ لَيْسَ إِسْنَادُهُ بِذَاكَ الْقَائِمِ وَالْعَمَلُ عَلَى هَذَا عِنْدَ أَكْثَرِ أَهْلِ الْعِلْمِ مِنْ أَصْحَابِ النَّبِيِّ ﷺ وَمَنْ بَعْدَهُمْ أَنَّ الأُذُنَيْنِ مِنَ الرَّأْسِ وَبِهِ يَقُولُ سُفْيَانُ الثَّوْرِيُّ وَابْنُ الْمُبَارَكِ وَالشَّافِعِيُّ وَأَحْمَدُ وَإِسْحَاقُ وَقَالَ بَعْضُ أَهْلِ الْعِلْمِ مَا أَقْبَلَ مِنَ الأُذُنَيْنِ فَمِنَ الْوَجْهِ وَمَا أَدْبَرَ فَمِنَ الرَّأْسِ قَالَ إِسْحَاقُ وَأَخْتَارُ أَنْ يَمْسَحَ مُقَدَّمَهُمَا مَعَ الْوَجْهِ وَمُؤَخَّرَهُمَا مَعَ رَأْسِهِ وَقَالَ الشَّافِعِيُّ هُمَا سُنَّةٌ عَلَى حِيَالِهِمَا يَمْسَحُهُمَا بِمَاءٍ جَدِيدٍ

    machine translationAbū ʿĪsā said: Qutaybah said: Ḥammād said: I do not know whether this is from the words of the Prophet ﷺ or from the words of Abū Umāmah. He said: There is a report on this topic from Anas. Abū ʿĪsā said: This is a good (ḥasan) hadith, though its chain is not so firm. The practice according to this among most of the people of knowledge, from the Companions of the Prophet ﷺ and those after them, is that the two ears are part of the head. This is what Sufyān al-Thawrī, Ibn al-Mubārak, al-Shāfiʿī, Aḥmad and Isḥāq say. Some of the people of knowledge said: What faces forward of the two ears is part of the face, and what faces backward is part of the head. Isḥāq said: I prefer that one wipe their front part along with the face and their back part along with the head. Al-Shāfiʿī said: They are a separate sunnah in themselves; one wipes them with fresh water.

  • قَالَ أَبُو عِيسَى هَذَا حَدِيثٌ حَسَنٌ لَيْسَ إِسْنَادُهُ بِذَاكَ الْقَائِمِ. وَالْعَمَلُ عَلَى هَذَا عِنْدَ أَكْثَرِ أَهْلِ الْعِلْمِ مِنْ أَصْحَابِ النَّبِيِّ صلى الله عليه وسلم وَمَنْ بَعْدَهُمْ أَنَّ الأُذُنَيْنِ مِنَ الرَّأْسِ. وَبِهِ يَقُولُ سُفْيَانُ الثَّوْرِيُّ وَابْنُ الْمُبَارَكِ وَالشَّافِعِيُّ وَأَحْمَدُ وَإِسْحَاقُ. وَقَالَ بَعْضُ أَهْلِ الْعِلْمِ مَا أَقْبَلَ مِنَ الأُذُنَيْنِ فَمِنَ الْوَجْهِ وَمَا أَدْبَرَ فَمِنَ الرَّأْسِ. قَالَ إِسْحَاقُ وَأَخْتَارُ أَنْ يَمْسَحَ مُقَدَّمَهُمَا مَعَ الْوَجْهِ وَمُؤَخَّرَهُمَا مَعَ رَأْسِهِ. وَقَالَ الشَّافِعِيُّ هُمَا سُنَّةٌ عَلَى حِيَالِهِمَا يَمْسَحُهُمَا بِمَاءٍ جَدِيدٍ.

    machine translationAbū ʿĪsā said: This is a good (ḥasan) hadith, though its chain is not so firm. The practice according to this among most of the people of knowledge, from the Companions of the Prophet ﷺ and those after them, is that the two ears are part of the head. This is what Sufyān al-Thawrī, Ibn al-Mubārak, al-Shāfiʿī, Aḥmad and Isḥāq say. Some of the people of knowledge said: What faces forward of the two ears is part of the face, and what faces backward is part of the head. Isḥāq said: I prefer that one wipe their front part along with the face and their back part along with the head. Al-Shāfiʿī said: They are a separate sunnah in themselves; one wipes them with fresh water.

Grades by grader

Zubair Ali ZaiGoodfawazahmed0, hadithunlocked, sunnah.com
Ahmad Muhammad ShakirSahihfawazahmed0
Ibn Daqīq al-ʿĪdGoodin جامع الترمذي, p. 39hadithunlocked
al-AlbaniSoundin صحيح سنن الترمذي, p. 37fawazahmed0, hadithunlocked

What scholars said about it

In their own words, as Hadith Unlocked records them. They are shown, not summarised into a grade.

  • Ibn Daqīq al-ʿĪd

    هذا الحديث معلول

    machine translationThis hadith is defective (maʿlūl).

    in جامع الترمذي, p. 39
  • ابن عدي

    لسنان أحاديث قليلة وأرجو أنه لا بأس به

    machine translationSinān has few hadiths, and I hope that there is no harm in him.

    in جامع الترمذي, p. 39
  • Dāraquṭnī

    يرويه حماد بن زيد واختلف عنه حدث به محمد بن عبد الرحيم الشماخي كان بالشام ولم يكن مرضيا عن سليمان بن حرب عن حماد بن زيد عن أبان بن تغلب عن شهر عن أسماء بنت يزيد والمحفوظ عن حماد بن زيد عن سنان بن ربيعة عن شهر عن أبي أمامة

    machine translationḤammād b. Zayd narrates it, and there is disagreement about him. Muḥammad b. ʿAbd al-Raḥīm al-Shammākhī, who was in Syria and was not approved of, narrated it from Sulaymān b. Ḥarb, from Ḥammād b. Zayd, from Abān b. Taghlib, from Shahr, from Asmāʾ bint Yazīd. But the preserved (maḥfūẓ) version is from Ḥammād b. Zayd, from Sinān b. Rabīʿah, from Shahr, from Abū Umāmah.

    in جامع الترمذي, p. 39
  • al-Tirmidhi

    حديث ليس إسناده بذاك القائم

    machine translationA hadith whose chain is not so firm.

    in جامع الترمذي, p. 39
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  • Dāraquṭnī

    يرويه حماد بن زيد عن سنان بن ربيعة عن شهر وخالفه حماد بن سلمة وروى بعض الكلام عن سنان بن ربيعة عن أنس وقال سليمان بن حرب في هذا الحديث عن حماد بن زيد إن قوله والأذنان من الرأس هو من قول أبي أمامة غير مرفوع وهو الصواب

    machine translationḤammād b. Zayd narrates it from Sinān b. Rabīʿah, from Shahr, and Ḥammād b. Salamah differed from him, and narrated some of the wording from Sinān b. Rabīʿah, from Anas. Sulaymān b. Ḥarb said regarding this hadith, from Ḥammād b. Zayd, that the saying "the two ears are part of the head" is from the words of Abū Umāmah, not raised to the Prophet (marfūʿ), and that is correct.

    in جامع الترمذي, p. 39
  • Ibn Ḥajar al-ʿAsqalānī

    مدرج

    machine translationInterpolated (mudraj).

    in جامع الترمذي, p. 39
  • Abū Bakr Aḥmad b. al-Ḥusayn al-Bayhaqī

    ما منها حديث يعني الأذنان من الرأس إلا وله علة

    machine translationThere is no hadith among them, meaning "the two ears are part of the head", except that it has a defect.

    in جامع الترمذي, p. 39
  • سليمان بن حريث

    إنما هو من قول أبي أمامة فمن قال غير هذا فقد بدل

    machine translationIt is only from the words of Abū Umāmah; whoever says otherwise has altered it.

    in جامع الترمذي, p. 39
  • Dāraquṭnī

    رفعه وهم وشهر بن حوشب ليس بالقوي وقد وقفه سليمان بن حرب وهو ثقة

    machine translationRaising it to the Prophet is an error (wahm). Shahr b. Ḥawshab is not strong, and Sulaymān b. Ḥarb, who is trustworthy (thiqah), reported it as a statement of the Companion (mawqūf).

    in جامع الترمذي, p. 39
  • Dāraquṭnī

    هذا مرسل وروي عنه متصلا عن أبي أمامة عن النبي صلى الله عليه وسلم ولا يصح وأبو بكر بن أبي مريم ضعيف

    machine translationThis is mursal, and it was narrated from him in a connected form from Abū Umāmah, from the Prophet ﷺ, but that is not authentic. Abū Bakr b. Abī Maryam is weak (ḍaʿīf).

    in جامع الترمذي, p. 39
  • al-Tirmidhi

    هذا حديث ليس إسناده بذاك القائم

    machine translationThis is a hadith whose chain is not so firm.

    in جامع الترمذي, p. 39
  • al-Tirmidhi

    حسن ليس إسناده بذاك القائم

    machine translationGood (ḥasan); its chain is not so firm.

    in سنن الترمذي, p. 37

Other narrations of this report

Sunan Ibn Majah 445Musannaf Ibn Abi Shaybah 158Musannaf Ibn Abi Shaybah 160Musannaf Ibn Abi Shaybah 162Musannaf Ibn Abi Shaybah 167Musannaf 'Abd al-Razzaq 23

Narrators

  1. Abū Umāmah al-Bāhilī
    a well-known Companiond. Ismāʿīl b. ʿAyyāsh said: 81 AH. Abū al-Ḥasan al-Madāʾinī and more than one said: 86 AH
    أَبُو أُمَامَةَ الْبَاهِلِيُّصحابي مشهور
    عن
  2. Shahr b. Ḥawshab
    Truthful (ṣadūq), frequently narrated mursal reports (kathīr al-irsāl) and made many errors (awhām)d. 98 AH, or 99 AH, or 100 AH, or 101 AH, or 111 AH, or 112 AH
    شَهْرِ بْنِ حَوْشَبٍصدوق , كثير الإرسال والأوهام
    عن
  3. Sinān b. Rabīʿah
    truthful (ṣadūq), with some softness (layyin)d. between 131 and 140 AH
    سِنَانِ بْنِ رَبِيعَةَصدوق فيه لين
    عن
  4. Ḥammād b. Zayd
    Trustworthy (thiqah), firmly reliable (thabt), a jurist (faqīh).d. 177 AH, also said 179 AH
    حَمَّادُ بْنُ زَيْدٍثقة ثبت ، فقيه.
    حدثنا
  5. Qutaybah b. Saʿīd
    trustworthy, precise (thiqah thabt)d. 240 AH, or: 241 AH
    قُتَيْبَةُثقة ثبت
    حدثنا
  6. al-Tirmidhī
    trustworthy, a memorizer (thiqah ḥāfiẓ)d. 279 AH, in Ikmāl al-Tahdhīb: 275 AH
    التِّرْمِذِيُّثقة حافظ

Who each narrator was and how reliable, from hdith.com

Latin names and English verdicts with a dotted underline are machine translations, not reviewed.

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