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bayhaqi:251ʿAbd al-Wāḥid b. Qays > Nāfiʿ

[Machine] That Ibn Umar, when he performed ablution, used to rub his arms and sometimes comb his beard with his fingers and sometimes leave it.  

البيهقي:٢٥١وَبِإِسْنَادِهِ قَالَ أَخْبَرَنَا عَبْدُ الْوَاحِدِ بْنُ قَيْسٍ عَنْ نَافِعٍ

أَنَّ ابْنَ عُمَرَ كَانَ إِذَا تَوَضَّأَ يَعْرُكُ عَارِضَيْهِ وَيُشَبِّكُ لِحْيَتَهُ بِأَصَابِعِهِ أَحْيَانًا وَيَتْرُكُ أَحْيَانًا  


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ibnmajah:432Hishām b. ʿAmmār > ʿAbd al-Ḥamīd b. Ḥabīb > al-Awzāʿī > ʿAbd al-Wāḥid b. Qays > Nāfiʿ > Ibn ʿUmar

"Whenever the Messenger of Allah performed ablution, he rubbed the sides of his face then run his fingers through his beard from beneath."  

ابن ماجة:٤٣٢حَدَّثَنَا هِشَامُ بْنُ عَمَّارٍ حَدَّثَنَا عَبْدُ الْحَمِيدِ بْنُ حَبِيبٍ حَدَّثَنَا الأَوْزَاعِيُّ حَدَّثَنَا عَبْدُ الْوَاحِدِ بْنُ قَيْسٍ حَدَّثَنِي نَافِعٌ عَنِ ابْنِ عُمَرَ قَالَ

كَانَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ ﷺ إِذَا تَوَضَّأَ عَرَكَ عَارِضَيْهِ بَعْضَ الْعَرْكِ ثُمَّ شَبَكَ لِحْيَتَهُ بِأَصَابِعِهِ مِنْ تَحْتِهَا  

bayhaqi:252Abū ʿAbdullāh al-Sūsī > Abū al-ʿAbbās al-Aṣam > al-ʿAbbās b. al-Walīd b. Mazyad from my father > al-Awzāʿī > ʿAbdullāh b. ʿĀmir > Nāfiʿ

[Machine] Ibn Umar used to comb his hair and intertwine his beard with his fingers sometimes, and he used to leave it like that, he said.  

البيهقي:٢٥٢وَأَخْبَرَنَا أَبُو عَبْدِ اللهِ السُّوسِيُّ ثنا أَبُو الْعَبَّاسِ الْأَصَمُّ ثنا الْعَبَّاسُ بْنُ الْوَلِيدِ بْنِ مَزْيَدٍ أَخْبَرَنِي أَبِي أنا الْأَوْزَاعِيُّ قَالَ حَدَّثَنِي عَبْدُ اللهِ بْنُ عَامِرٍ حَدَّثَنِي نَافِعٌ

أَنَّ ابْنَ عُمَرَ كَانَ يَعْرُكُ عَارِضَيْهِ وَيُشَبِّكُ لِحْيَتَهُ بِأَصَابِعِهِ أَحْيَانًا وَيَتْرُكُ هَكَذَا قَالَ  

suyuti:422-327bIbn ʿUmar
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السيوطي:٤٢٢-٣٢٧b

"عَنِ ابْنِ عُمَرَ أنَّ النَّبِىَّ ﷺ كَانَ إِذَا تَوَضَّأَ عَرَكَ عَارِضَيْهِ بَعْضَ الْعَرْكِ ثُمَّ يُشَبِّكُ يَدَيْهِ فِى لِحْيَتِهِ مِنْ تَحْتِهَا".  

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