مسند أحمد بن حنبل
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Musnad Ahmad ibn Hanbal
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Chapter: Musnad al-Rubayyiʿ bint Muʿawwidh ibn ʿAfrāʾ (may Allah be pleased with her)
(23)
مُسْنَدُ الرُّبَيِّعِ بِنْتِ مُعَوِّذِ بْنِ عَفْرَاءَ رَضِيَ اللَّهُ عَنْهَا
Three-Narrator Ahadith 264
Al-Rubayyiʿ bint Muʿawwidh ibn ʿAfrāʾ (may Allah be pleased with her) reported:
ʿAlī ibn al-Ḥusayn sent me [ʿAbdullāh ibn Muḥammad ibn ʿAqīl] to her to ask about the Messenger of Allah’s ﷺ wuḍūʾ. She brought out a vessel holding roughly one mudd, or a mudd and a quarter, and said, “I would bring him water in this. He would pour it over his hands three times, wash his face three times, rinse his mouth three times, snuff water into his nose three times, wash his right hand three times and his left hand three times, then wipe his head, front to back, then wash his feet three times. A cousin of yours came to me, Ibn ʿAbbās, and asked me the same, and I told him, and he said to me, ‘I find in the Book of Allah only two wipings and two washings.‘”
Reference:
Musnad Aḥmad 264
حَدَّثَنَا سُفْيَانُ بْنُ عُيَيْنَةَ، قَالَ: حَدَّثَنِي عَبْدُ اللَّهِ بْنُ مُحَمَّدِ بْنِ عَقِيلِ بْنِ أَبِي طَالِبٍ، قَالَ: أَرْسَلَنِي عَلِيُّ بْنُ حُسَيْنٍ إِلَى الرُّبَيِّعِ بِنْتِ مُعَوِّذِ ابْنِ عَفْرَاءَ، فَسَأَلْتُهَا عَنْ وُضُوءِ رَسُولِ اللَّهِ ﷺ، فَأَخْرَجَتْ لَهُ إِنَاءً يَكُونُ مُدًّا أَوْ نَحْوَ مُدٍّ وَرُبُعٍ، قَالَتْ: كُنْتُ أُخْرِجُ إِلَيْهِ الْمَاءَ فِي هَذَا، فَيَصُبُّ عَلَى يَدَيْهِ ثَلَاثًا، وَيَغْسِلُ وَجْهَهُ ثَلَاثًا، وَيُمَضْمِضُ ثَلَاثًا، وَيَسْتَنْشِقُ ثَلَاثًا، وَيَغْسِلُ يَدَهُ الْيُمْنَى ثَلَاثًا وَالْيُسْرَى ثَلَاثًا، وَيَمْسَحُ بِرَأْسِهِ مُقْبِلًا وَمُدْبِرًا، ثُمَّ يَغْسِلُ رِجْلَيْهِ ثَلَاثًا. قَدْ جَاءَنِي ابْنُ عَمٍّ لَكَ فَسَأَلَنِي، وَهُوَ ابْنُ عَبَّاسٍ، فَأَخْبَرْتُهُ، فَقَالَ لِي: «مَا أَجِدُ فِي كِتَابِ اللَّهِ إِلَّا مَسْحَتَيْنِ وَغَسْلَتَيْنِ
| Grade: | Ḍaʿīf |
due to the weakness of ʿAbdullāh ibn Muḥammad ibn ʿAqīl, one of its transmitters.
Chain: Sufyān ibn ʿUyaynah → ʿAbdullāh ibn Muḥammad ibn ʿAqīl ibn Abī Ṭālib → al-Rubayyiʿ bint Muʿawwidh ibn ʿAfrāʾ (may Allah be pleased with her). Rijāl: (1) Sufyān: Sufyān ibn ʿUyaynah ibn Mīmūn al-Hilālī al-Kūfī (d. 198 AH); thiqah ḥāfiẓ faqīh imām. (2) ʿAbdullāh ibn Muḥammad ibn ʿAqīl ibn Abī Ṭālib: criticized by a number of ḥadīth critics as weak owing to confusion (iḍṭirāb) noted in some of his narrations, which is the source of this chain's weakness, though he was nonetheless widely narrated from. (3) ʿAlī ibn al-Ḥusayn, Zayn al-ʿĀbidīn, mentioned here as the one who dispatched the questioner: a leading Tābiʿī jurist and the son of al-Ḥusayn ibn ʿAlī, thiqah thabt faqīh, one of the most revered scholars among the Prophet's ﷺ descendants. (4) Al-Rubayyiʿ bint Muʿawwidh ibn ʿAfrāʾ: a Companion woman of the Anṣār; her father Muʿawwidh was martyred at Badr. Takhrīj: al-Rubayyiʿ's description of the Prophet's ﷺ wuḍūʾ is widely transmitted through other, sounder chains as well, notably in Abū Dāwūd (106) and al-Tirmidhī (33) and Ibn Mājah (434), which several scholars, including al-Tirmidhī, grade ḥasan on the strength of these combined chains despite the weakness of this particular route through Ibn ʿAqīl. Commentary: Ibn ʿAbbās's own remark, that the Qurʾān (5:6) mentions only two washings (face and hands) and two wipings (head and feet) as obligatory, reflects the classical juristic distinction between the minimum obligatory acts of wuḍūʾ prescribed in the Qurʾān and the fuller, recommended (mustaḥabb) manner the Prophet ﷺ habitually practiced and which al-Rubayyiʿ here describes in detail, including the threefold washing and the specific quantity of water he ﷺ used, a notably economical amount by later standards, illustrating his ﷺ teaching on moderation even in acts of worship.
Chain: Sufyān ibn ʿUyaynah → ʿAbdullāh ibn Muḥammad ibn ʿAqīl ibn Abī Ṭālib → al-Rubayyiʿ bint Muʿawwidh ibn ʿAfrāʾ (may Allah be pleased with her). Rijāl: (1) Sufyān: Sufyān ibn ʿUyaynah ibn Mīmūn al-Hilālī al-Kūfī (d. 198 AH); thiqah ḥāfiẓ faqīh imām. (2) ʿAbdullāh ibn Muḥammad ibn ʿAqīl ibn Abī Ṭālib: criticized by a number of ḥadīth critics as weak owing to confusion (iḍṭirāb) noted in some of his narrations, which is the source of this chain's weakness, though he was nonetheless widely narrated from. (3) ʿAlī ibn al-Ḥusayn, Zayn al-ʿĀbidīn, mentioned here as the one who dispatched the questioner: a leading Tābiʿī jurist and the son of al-Ḥusayn ibn ʿAlī, thiqah thabt faqīh, one of the most revered scholars among the Prophet's ﷺ descendants. (4) Al-Rubayyiʿ bint Muʿawwidh ibn ʿAfrāʾ: a Companion woman of the Anṣār; her father Muʿawwidh was martyred at Badr. Takhrīj: al-Rubayyiʿ's description of the Prophet's ﷺ wuḍūʾ is widely transmitted through other, sounder chains as well, notably in Abū Dāwūd (106) and al-Tirmidhī (33) and Ibn Mājah (434), which several scholars, including al-Tirmidhī, grade ḥasan on the strength of these combined chains despite the weakness of this particular route through Ibn ʿAqīl. Commentary: Ibn ʿAbbās's own remark, that the Qurʾān (5:6) mentions only two washings (face and hands) and two wipings (head and feet) as obligatory, reflects the classical juristic distinction between the minimum obligatory acts of wuḍūʾ prescribed in the Qurʾān and the fuller, recommended (mustaḥabb) manner the Prophet ﷺ habitually practiced and which al-Rubayyiʿ here describes in detail, including the threefold washing and the specific quantity of water he ﷺ used, a notably economical amount by later standards, illustrating his ﷺ teaching on moderation even in acts of worship.
| Reference | : Three-Narrator Ahadith 264 |
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