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ahmad:7674ʿAbd al-Razzāq And Ibn Bakr > Ibn Jurayj > Ziyād > Thābit a freed slave of ʿAbd al-Raḥman b. Zayd > Ibn Bakr > Abū Hurayrah

[Machine] The Messenger of Allah ﷺ said, "If one of you is asleep and then wakes up and wants to perform ablution, he should not put his hand in the container until he pours water onto his hand, for he does not know where his hand has spent the night."  

أحمد:٧٦٧٤حَدَّثَنَا عَبْدُ الرَّزَّاقِ وَابْنُ بَكْرٍ أَخْبَرَنَا ابْنُ جُرَيْجٍ أَخْبَرَنِي زِيَادٌ أَنَّ ثَابِتًا مَوْلَى عَبْدِ الرَّحْمَنِ بْنِ زَيْدٍ وَقَالَ ابْنُ بَكْرٍ أَخْبَرَهُ أَنَّهُ سَمِعَ أَبَا هُرَيْرَةَ يَقُولُ

قَالَ رَسُولُ اللهِ ﷺ إِذَا كَانَأَحَدُكُمْ نَائِمًا ثُمَّ اسْتَيْقَظَ فَأَرَادَ الْوُضُوءَ فَلَا يَضَعْ يَدَهُ فِي الْإِنَاءِ حَتَّى يَصُبَّ عَلَى يَدِهِ فَإِنَّهُ لَا يَدْرِي أَيْنَ بَاتَتْ يَدُهُ  


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Collected by Muslim, Nasāʾī, Aḥmad, Ibn Ḥibbān, Nasāʾī's Kubrá, Bayhaqī, Suyūṭī
muslim:278aNaṣr b. ʿAlī al-Jahḍamī And Ḥāmid b. ʿUmar al-Bakrāwī > Bishr b. al-Mufaḍḍal > Khālid > ʿAbdullāh b. Shaqīq > Abū Hurayrah

When anyone amongst you wakes up from sleep, he must not put his hand in the utensil till he has washed it three times, for he does not know where his hand was during the night.  

مسلم:٢٧٨aوَحَدَّثَنَا نَصْرُ بْنُ عَلِيٍّ الْجَهْضَمِيُّ وَحَامِدُ بْنُ عُمَرَ الْبَكْرَاوِيُّ قَالاَ حَدَّثَنَا بِشْرُ بْنُ الْمُفَضَّلِ عَنْ خَالِدٍ عَنْ عَبْدِ اللَّهِ بْنِ شَقِيقٍ عَنْ أَبِي هُرَيْرَةَ

أَنَّ النَّبِيَّ ﷺ قَالَ إِذَا اسْتَيْقَظَ أَحَدُكُمْ مِنْ نَوْمِهِ فَلاَ يَغْمِسْ يَدَهُ فِي الإِنَاءِ حَتَّى يَغْسِلَهَا ثَلاَثًا فَإِنَّهُ لاَ يَدْرِي أَيْنَ بَاتَتْ يَدُهُ  

nasai:161Ismāʿīl b. Masʿūd And Ḥumayd b. Masʿadah > Yazīd b. Zurayʿ > Maʿmar > al-Zuhrī > Abū Salamah > Abū Hurayrah

"When any one of you wakes from sleep, let him not put his hand into the vessel until he has washed it three times, because he does not know where his hand spent the night."  

النسائي:١٦١أَخْبَرَنَا إِسْمَاعِيلُ بْنُ مَسْعُودٍ وَحُمَيْدُ بْنُ مَسْعَدَةَ قَالاَ حَدَّثَنَا يَزِيدُ بْنُ زُرَيْعٍ قَالَ حَدَّثَنَا مَعْمَرٌ عَنِ الزُّهْرِيِّ عَنْ أَبِي سَلَمَةَ عَنْ أَبِي هُرَيْرَةَ

أَنَّ رَسُولَ اللَّهِ ﷺ قَالَ إِذَا اسْتَيْقَظَ أَحَدُكُمْ مِنْ مَنَامِهِ فَلاَ يُدْخِلْ يَدَهُ فِي الإِنَاءِ حَتَّى يُفْرِغَ عَلَيْهَا ثَلاَثَ مَرَّاتٍ فَإِنَّهُ لاَ يَدْرِي أَيْنَ بَاتَتْ يَدُهُ  

ahmad:9139Hawdhah > ʿAwf > Muḥammad > Abū Hurayrah

[Machine] Narrated by Prophet Muhammad ﷺ : When one of you wakes up from sleep and wants to perform ablution (washing before prayer), they should not dip their hand into the vessel until they have washed it, as they do not know where their hand has spent the night.  

أحمد:٩١٣٩حَدَّثَنَا هَوْذَةُ حَدَّثَنَا عَوْفٌ عَنْ مُحَمَّدٍ عَنْ أَبِي هُرَيْرَةَ

عَنِ النَّبِيِّ ﷺ قَالَ إِذَا اسْتَيْقَظَ أَحَدُكُمْ مِنْ نَوْمِهِ فَأَرَادَ الطُّهُورَ فَلَا يَضَعَنَّ يَدَهُ فِي الْإِنَاءِ حَتَّى يَغْسِلَهَا فَإِنَّهُ لَا يَدْرِي أَيْنَ بَاتَتْ يَدُهُ  

ahmad:10091Wakīʿ > al-Aʿmash > Abū Ṣāliḥ Waʾabī Razīn > Abū Hurayrah Rafaʿah Kadhā > al-Aʿmash

When anyone amongst you wakes up from sleep, he must not put his hand in the utensil till he has washed it three times, for he does not know where his hand was during the night. (Using translation from Muslim 278a)  

أحمد:١٠٠٩١حَدَّثَنَا وَكِيعٌ قَالَ حَدَّثَنَا الْأَعْمَشُ عَنِ أَبِي صَالِحٍ وَأَبِي رَزِينٍ عَنِ أَبِي هُرَيْرَةَ رَفَعَهُ كَذَا قَالَ الْأَعْمَشُ قَالَ

إِذَا اسْتَيْقَظَ أَحَدُكُمْ مِنْ مَنَامِهِ فَلَا يَغْمِسْ يَدَهُ فِي الْإِنَاءِ حَتَّى يَغْسِلَهَا ثَلَاثًا فَإِنَّهُ لَا يَدْرِي أَيْنَ بَاتَتْ يَدُهُ  

ahmad:7438Abū Muʿāwiyah > al-Aʿmash > Abū Ṣāliḥ > Abū Hurayrah

The Messenger of Allah ﷺ said: When anyone amongst you wakes up from sleep at night, he should not put his hand in the utensil until he has washed his hand three times, for he does’ not know where his hand was during the night. (Using translation from Abū Dāʾūd 103)   

أحمد:٧٤٣٨حَدَّثَنَا أَبُو مُعَاوِيَةَ حَدَّثَنَا الْأَعْمَشُ عَنْ أَبِي صَالِحٍ عَنْ أَبِي هُرَيْرَةَ قَالَ

قَالَ رَسُولُ اللهِ ﷺ إِذَا اسْتَيْقَظَ أَحَدُكُمْ مِنَ اللَّيْلِ فَلَا يُدْخِلْ يَدَهُ فِي الْإِنَاءِ حَتَّى يَغْسِلَهَا ثَلَاثَ مَرَّاتٍ فَإِنَّهُ لَا يَدْرِي أَيْنَ بَاتَتْ يَدُهُ؟  

ahmad:10497Yazīd > Muḥammad / Ibn Isḥāq > Mūsá b. Yasār > Abū Hurayrah > al-Zuhrī And Ghayrih Qālūā

[Machine] The Messenger of Allah ﷺ said, "When one of you wakes up, he should not put his hand in the water for washing until he washes it, as he does not know where his hand has spent the night."  

أحمد:١٠٤٩٧حَدَّثَنَا يَزِيدُ حَدَّثَنَا مُحَمَّدٌ يَعْنِي ابْنَ إِسْحَاقَ عَنْ مُوسَى بْنِ يَسَارٍ عَنْ أَبِي هُرَيْرَةَ وَعَنِ الزُّهْرِيِّ وَغَيْرِهِ قَالُوا

قَالَ رَسُولُ اللهِ ﷺ إِذَا اسْتَيْقَظَ أَحَدُكُمْ فَلَا يَضَعَنَّ يَدَهُ فِي الْغِسْلِ حَتَّى يَغْسِلَهَا فَإِنَّهُ لَا يَدْرِي أَيْنَ بَاتَتْ يَدُهُ  

ذِكْرُ الْخَبَرِ الدَّالِّ عَلَى أَنَّ هَذَا الْأَمْرَ أَمْرُ مَخَافَةِ النَّجَاسَةِ، إِذَا أَصَابَتْ يَدَ الْمَرْءِ عِنْدَ طَوَفَانِهَا مِنْ بَدَنِهِ

ibnhibban:1065al-Ḥusayn b. Muḥammad b. Muṣʿab > Muḥammad b. al-Walīd al-Busrī > Ghundar > Shuʿbah > Khālid al-Ḥadhhāʾ > ʿAbdullāh b. Shaqīq > Abū Hurayrah

When anyone amongst you wakes up from sleep, he must not put his hand in the utensil till he has washed it three times, for he does not know where his hand was during the night. (Using translation from Muslim 278a)  

ابن حبّان:١٠٦٥أَخْبَرَنَا الْحُسَيْنُ بْنُ مُحَمَّدِ بْنِ مُصْعَبٍ حَدَّثَنَا مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ الْوَلِيدِ الْبُسْرِيُّ حَدَّثَنَا غُنْدَرٌ عَنْ شُعْبَةَ عَنْ خَالِدٍ الْحَذَّاءِ عَنْ عَبْدِ اللَّهِ بْنِ شَقِيقٍ عَنْ أَبِي هُرَيْرَةَ قَالَ

قَالَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ ﷺ «إِذَا اسْتَيْقَظَ أَحَدُكُمْ مِنْ مَنَامِهِ فَلَا يَغْمِسْ يَدَهُ فِي الْإِنَاءِ حَتَّى يَغْسِلَهَا ثَلَاثًا فَإِنَّهُ لَا يَدْرِي أَيْنَ بَاتَتْ يَدُهُ مِنْهُ»  

nasai-kubra:152Ismāʿīl b. Masʿūd > Yazīd / Ibn Zurayʿ > Maʿmar > al-Zuhrī > Abū Salamah > Abū Hurayrah

"When any one of you wakes from sleep, let him not put his hand into the vessel until he has washed it three times, because he does not know where his hand spent the night." (Using translation from Nasāʾī 161)  

الكبرى للنسائي:١٥٢أَخْبَرَنَا إِسْمَاعِيلُ بْنُ مَسْعُودٍ عَنْ يَزِيدَ وَهُوَ ابْنُ زُرَيْعٍ قَالَ حَدَّثَنِي مَعْمَرٌ عَنِ الزُّهْرِيِّ عَنْ أَبِي سَلَمَةَ عَنْ أَبِي هُرَيْرَةَ

أَنَّ رَسُولَ اللهِ ﷺ قَالَ إِذَا اسْتَيْقَظَ أَحَدُكُمْ مِنْ مَنَامِهِ فَلَا يُدْخِلْ يَدَهُ فِي الْإِنَاءِ حَتَّى يُفْرِغَ عَلَيْهَا ثَلَاثَ مَرَّاتٍ فَإِنَّهُ لَا يَدْرِي أَيْنَ بَاتَتْ يَدَهُ  

bayhaqi:1207[Chain 1] Abū ʿAbdullāh al-Ḥāfiẓ > Aḥmad b. Jaʿfar al-Qaṭīʿī > ʿAbdullāh b. Aḥmad b. Ḥanbal from my father > ʿAbd al-Razzāq And Ibn Bakr > Ibn Jurayj [Chain 2] Abū al-Faḍl b. Ibrāhīm > Aḥmad b. Salamah > Muḥammad b. Rāfiʿ > ʿAbd al-Razzāq > Ibn Jurayj > Ziyād > Thābit a freed slave of ʿAbd al-Raḥman b. Zayd > Abū Hurayrah

[Machine] The Messenger of Allah, ﷺ , said: "If one of you is sleeping and then wakes up and wants to perform ablution, do not put his hand in the vessel until he pours water on his hand, for he does not know where his hand has spent the night."  

البيهقي:١٢٠٧أَخْبَرَنَا أَبُو عَبْدِ اللهِ الْحَافِظُ ثنا أَحْمَدُ بْنُ جَعْفَرٍ الْقَطِيعِيُّ ثنا عَبْدُ اللهِ بْنُ أَحْمَدَ بْنِ حَنْبَلٍ حَدَّثَنِي أَبِي ثنا عَبْدُ الرَّزَّاقِ وَابْنُ بَكْرٍ قَالَا حَدَّثَنَا ابْنُ جُرَيْجٍ ح قَالَ وَأَخْبَرَنَا أَبُو الْفَضْلِ بْنُ إِبْرَاهِيمَ وَاللَّفْظُ لَهُ ثنا أَحْمَدُ بْنُ سَلَمَةَ ثنا مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ رَافِعٍ ثنا عَبْدُ الرَّزَّاقِ أنبأ ابْنُ جُرَيْجٍ أَخْبَرَنِي زِيَادٌ أَنَّ ثَابِتًا مَوْلَى عَبْدِ الرَّحْمَنِ بْنِ زَيْدٍ أَخْبَرَهُ أَنَّهُ سَمِعَ أَبَا هُرَيْرَةَ يَقُولُ

قَالَ رَسُولُ اللهِ ﷺ إِذَا كَانَ أَحَدُكُمْ نَائِمًا ثُمَّ اسْتَيْقَظَ وَأَرَادَ الْوُضُوءَ فَلَا يَضَعْ يَدَهُ فِي الْإِنَاءِ حَتَّى يَصُبَّ عَلَى يَدِهِ فَإِنَّهُ لَا يَدْرِي أَيْنَ بَاتَتْ يَدُهُ  

رَوَاهُ مُسْلِمٌ فِي الصَّحِيحِ عَنْ مُحَمَّدِ بْنِ حَاتِمٍ عَنْ مُحَمَّدِ بْنِ بَكْرٍ وَرَوَاهُ أَيْضًا عَنْ مُحَمَّدِ بْنِ رَافِعٍ
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"إِذا كانَ أحدُكُم ثم نائمًا، ثُمَّ استْيقظَ فأرادَ الوضوءَ فلا يضعْ يدَهُ في الإناءِ حتَّى يَصُبَّ على يديه، فإِنَّه لا يدْرِى: أين باتَتْ يدهُ".  

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