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ahmad:11510 – Wakīʿ > Fuḍayl b. Marzūq > ʿAṭiyyah > Abū Saʿīd al-Khudrī > Saʾalah a man > al-Ghusl from al-Janābah > Thalāth > Innī Kathīr al-Shaʿar

A man asked him about having a bath to cleanse oneself from sexual impurity. He said to pour water three times. The man said: "But I have a lot of hair." He said: "The Messenger of Allah had more hair than you and he was cleaner." (Using translation from Ibn Mājah 576)   

أحمد:١١٥١٠ – حَدَّثَنَا وَكِيعٌ حَدَّثَنِي فُضَيْلُ بْنُ مَرْزُوقٍ عَنْ عَطِيَّةَ عَنْ أَبِي سَعِيدٍ الْخُدْرِيِّ قَالَ سَأَلَهُ رَجُلٌ عَنِ الْغُسْلِ مِنَ الْجَنَابَةِ فَقَالَ ثَلَاثًا فَقَالَ إِنِّي كَثِيرُ الشَّعَرِ قَالَ

أَبُو سَعِيدٍ كَانَ رَسُولُ اللهِ ﷺ أَكْثَرَ شَعَرًا مِنْكَ وَأَطْيَبَ  

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ibnmajah:576 – [Chain 1] Abū Bakr b. Abū Shaybah And ʿAlī b. Muḥammad > Wakīʿ [Chain 2] Abū Kurayb > Ibn Fuḍayl > Fuḍayl b. Marzūq > ʿAṭiyyah > Abū Saʿīd > a man Saʾalah > al-Ghusl from al-Janābah > Thalāth > al-a man In Shaʿrī Kathīr

A man asked him about having a bath to cleanse oneself from sexual impurity. He said to pour water three times. The man said: "But I have a lot of hair." He said: "The Messenger of Allah had more hair than you and he was cleaner."  

ابن ماجة:٥٧٦ – حَدَّثَنَا أَبُو بَكْرِ بْنُ أَبِي شَيْبَةَ وَعَلِيُّ بْنُ مُحَمَّدٍ قَالاَ حَدَّثَنَا وَكِيعٌ ح وَحَدَّثَنَا أَبُو كُرَيْبٍ حَدَّثَنَا ابْنُ فُضَيْلٍ جَمِيعًا عَنْ فُضَيْلِ بْنِ مَرْزُوقٍ عَنْ عَطِيَّةَ عَنْ أَبِي سَعِيدٍ أَنَّ رَجُلاً سَأَلَهُ عَنِ الْغُسْلِ مِنَ الْجَنَابَةِ فَقَالَ ثَلاَثًا فَقَالَ الرَّجُلُ إِنَّ شَعْرِي كَثِيرٌ فَقَالَ

رَسُولُ اللَّهِ ﷺ كَانَ أَكْثَرَ شَعْرًا مِنْكَ وَأَطْيَبَ  

suyuti:627-1b – Abiá Saʿīd > a man Saʾalah > In Shaʿariá Kthīr
Translation not available.

  

السيوطي:٦٢٧-١b –

" عَنْ أَبِى سَعِيدٍ أَن رَجُلًا سَأَلَهُ فَقَالَ: إِنَّ شَعَرِى كثِيرٌ، فَقَالَ: كَانَ رَسُولُ الله ﷺ أَكْثَرَ شَعْرًا مِنْك وَأَطْيَبَ".  

[ش] ابن أبى شيبة