Jami' at-Tirmidhi 44

Translation

"The Prophet performed Wudu three times (for each limb)."

Notes

• قَالَ أَبُو عِيسَى وَفِي الْبَابِ عَنْ عُثْمَانَ وَعَائِشَةَ وَالرُّبَيِّعِ وَابْنِ عُمَرَ وَأَبِي أُمَامَةَ وَأَبِي رَافِعٍ وَعَبْدِ اللَّهِ بْنِ عَمْرٍو وَمُعَاوِيَةَ وَأَبِي هُرَيْرَةَ وَجَابِرٍ وَعَبْدِ اللَّهِ بْنِ زَيْدٍ وَأُبَىِّ بْنِ كَعْبٍ قَالَ أَبُو عِيسَى حَدِيثُ عَلِيٍّ أَحْسَنُ شَيْءٍ فِي هَذَا الْبَابِ وَأَصَحُّ لأَنَّهُ قَدْ رُوِيَ مِنْ غَيْرِ وَجْهٍ عَنْ عَلِيٍّ رِضْوَانُ اللَّهِ عَلَيْهِ وَالْعَمَلُ عَلَى هَذَا عِنْدَ عَامَّةِ أَهْلِ الْعِلْمِ أَنَّ الْوُضُوءَ يُجْزِئُ مَرَّةً مَرَّةً وَمَرَّتَيْنِ أَفْضَلُ وَأَفْضَلُهُ ثَلاَثٌ وَلَيْسَ بَعْدَهُ شَيْءٌ وَقَالَ ابْنُ الْمُبَارَكِ لاَ آمَنُ إِذَا زَادَ فِي الْوُضُوءِ عَلَى الثَّلاَثِ أَنْ يَأْثَمَ وَقَالَ أَحْمَدُ وَإِسْحَاقُ لاَ يَزِيدُ عَلَى الثَّلاَثِ إِلاَّ رَجُلٌ مُبْتَلًى

  machine translationAbū ʿĪsā said: On this topic there are narrations from ʿUthmān, ʿĀʾishah, al-Rubayyiʿ, Ibn ʿUmar, Abū Umāmah, Abū Rāfiʿ, ʿAbdullāh b. ʿAmr, Muʿāwiyah, Abū Hurayrah, Jābir, ʿAbdullāh b. Zayd and Ubayy b. Kaʿb. Abū ʿĪsā said: The hadith of ʿAlī is the best thing on this topic and the most authentic (aṣaḥḥ), because it has been narrated through more than one route from ʿAlī, may Allah be pleased with him. The practice according to this among most of the people of knowledge is that ablution suffices once, twice is better, and the best is three times, and there is nothing beyond that. Ibn al-Mubārak said: I do not feel safe for one who adds to the ablution beyond three times that he will be sinful. Aḥmad and Isḥāq said: No one goes beyond three except a man afflicted (with doubt).”},{ Report a problem

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What scholars said about it

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

• al-Tirmidhi

  هذا الحديثأحسن شيء في هذا الباب وأصح

  in جامع الترمذي, p. 46
• al-Ḍiyāʾ al-Maqdisī

  صححه

  machine translationHe declared it sound (ṣaḥḥaḥahu). Report a problem

  in جامع الترمذي, p. 46
• al-Tirmidhi

  صححه

  machine translationHe declared it sound (ṣaḥḥaḥahu). Report a problem

  in جامع الترمذي, p. 46
• al-Tirmidhi

  هذا أحسن شيء في الباب وأصح

  in جامع الترمذي, p. 46

Other narrations of this report

Musnad Ahmad 1205Musnad Ahmad 1352Musnad Ahmad 971Musannaf Ibn Abi Shaybah 54Musannaf 'Abd al-Razzaq 120Musnad al-Bazzar 473

Narrators

1. 1
   ʿAlī b. Abū Ṭālib

   One of the ten (promised Paradise)d. 40 AH
   عَلِيُّ بْنُ أَبِي طَالِبٍأحد العشرة
   عن
2. 2
   Abū Ḥayyah

   acceptable (maqbūl)
   أَبِي حَيَّةَمقبول
   عن
3. 3
   Abū Isḥāq al-Sabīʿī

   Trustworthy (thiqah), a prolific narrator (mukthir), devout (ʿābid); his memory became confused (ikhtalaṭa) at the end of his lifed. Ibn ʿUyaynah said 126 AH, Yaḥyā b. Saʿīd said 127 AH, Abū Nuʿaym said 128 AH, ʿAmr b. ʿAlī said 129 AH, Ibn Maʿīn said 132 AH
   أَبِي إِسْحَاقَثقة مكثر عابد , اختلط بآخره
   عن
4. 4
   Sufyān al-Thawrī

   trustworthy (thiqah), a memorizer (ḥāfiẓ), a jurist (faqīh), devout (ʿābid), an imam and authority (ḥujjah)d. 159 AH or 160 AH or 161 AH or 162 AH
   سُفْيَانَثقة حافظ , فقيه عابد ، إمام حجة
   عن
5. 5
   ʿAbd al-Raḥman b. Mahdī

   Trustworthy (thiqah), firmly reliable (thabt), a memorizer (ḥāfiẓ), knowledgeable of the narrators and of ḥadīthd. 198 AH
   عَبْدُ الرَّحْمَنِ بْنُ مَهْدِيٍّثقة ثبت حافظ ، عارف بالرجال والحديث
   حدثنا
6. 6
   Muḥammad b. Bashshār

   trustworthy (thiqah)d. 252 AH
   مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ بَشَّارٍثقة
   حدثنا
7. 7
   al-Tirmidhī

   trustworthy, a memorizer (thiqah ḥāfiẓ)d. 279 AH, in Ikmāl al-Tahdhīb: 275 AH
   التِّرْمِذِيُّثقة حافظ

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