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ahmad:16170Muḥammad b. Jaʿfar > Shuʿbah > al-Nuʿmān b. Sālim > Ibn Abū Aws from his father

[Machine] I saw the Messenger of Allah ﷺ perform ablution and wash his hands three times, meaning he washed his hands.  

أحمد:١٦١٧٠حَدَّثَنَا مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ جَعْفَرٍ حَدَّثَنَا شُعْبَةُ عَنِ النُّعْمَانِ بْنِ سَالِمٍ عَنِ ابْنِ أَبِي أَوْسٍ عَنْ جَدِّهِ قَالَ

رَأَيْتُ رَسُولَ اللهِ ﷺ تَوَضَّأَ واسْتَوْكَفَ ثَلَاثًا أَيْ غَسَلَ كَفَّيْهِ  


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nasai:83Ḥumayd b. Masʿadah > Sufyān / Ibn Ḥabīb > Shuʿbah > al-Nuʿmān b. Sālim > Ibn Abū Aws from his father

"I saw the Messenger of Allah ﷺ trickle water into his hand until it started to drip from his hand, three times."  

النسائي:٨٣أَخْبَرَنَا حُمَيْدُ بْنُ مَسْعَدَةَ عَنْ سُفْيَانَ وَهُوَ ابْنُ حَبِيبٍ عَنْ شُعْبَةَ عَنِ النُّعْمَانِ بْنِ سَالِمٍ عَنِ ابْنِ أَبِي أَوْسٍ عَنْ جَدِّهِ قَالَ

رَأَيْتُ رَسُولَ اللَّهِ ﷺ اسْتَوْكَفَ ثَلاَثًا  

شَهْرُ بْنُ حَوْشَبٍ، عَنْ جَرِيرِ بْنِ عَبْدِ اللهِ

tabarani:2511[Chain 1] Abū Zurʿah al-Dimashqī > Ḥaywah b. Shurayḥ al-Ḥimṣī > Baqiyyah [Chain 2] al-Ḥusayn b. al-Samaydaʿ al-Anṭākī > Mūsá b. Ayyūb al-Naṣībī > Baqiyyah b. al-Walīd [Chain 3] Mūsá b. Hārūn > Ḥājib b. al-Walīd > Abū Ḥaywah Shurayḥ b. Yazīd al-Ḥimṣī > Ibrāhīm b. Adham > Muqātil b. Ḥayyān > Shahr b. Ḥawshab > Jarīr

I saw the Messenger of Allah ﷺ wiping over his leather slippers (when doing wudoo’). (Using translation from Aḥmad 216)   

الطبراني:٢٥١١حَدَّثَنَا أَبُو زُرْعَةَ الدِّمَشْقِيُّ ثنا حَيْوَةُ بْنُ شُرَيْحٍ الْحِمْصِيُّ ثنا بَقِيَّةُ ح وَحَدَّثَنَا الْحُسَيْنُ بْنُ السَّمَيْدَعِ الْأَنْطَاكِيُّ ثنا مُوسَى بْنُ أَيُّوبَ النَّصِيبِيُّ ثنا بَقِيَّةُ بْنُ الْوَلِيدِ ح وَحَدَّثَنَا مُوسَى بْنُ هَارُونَ ثنا حَاجِبُ بْنُ الْوَلِيدِ ثنا أَبُو حَيْوَةَ شُرَيْحُ بْنُ يَزِيدَ الْحِمْصِيُّ قَالَا ثنا إِبْرَاهِيمُ بْنُ أَدْهَمَ عَنْ مُقَاتِلِ بْنِ حَيَّانَ عَنْ شَهْرِ بْنِ حَوْشَبٍ عَنْ جَرِيرٍ قَالَ

«رَأَيْتُ رَسُولَ اللهِ ﷺ تَوَضَّأَ وَمَسَحَ عَلَى خُفَّيْهِ»