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bayhaqi:6665Abū ʿAbdullāh al-Ḥāfiẓ And ʾAbū Bakr b. al-Ḥasan al-Qāḍī > Abū al-ʿAbbās Muḥammad b. Yaʿqūb > Abū Zurʿah ʿAbd al-Raḥman b. ʿAmr > Aḥmad b. Khālid > Muḥammad b. Isḥāq > Yaḥyá b. ʿAbbād b. ʿAbdullāh b. al-Zubayr from his father > ʿĀʾishah

[Machine] "If I had received the command, I would not have understood what the Prophet ﷺ washed other than his wives. The scholar, may Allah have mercy on him, said, 'I became eager to know this and one should only be eager to know what is permissible.'"  

البيهقي:٦٦٦٥وَأَخْبَرَنَا أَبُو عَبْدِ اللهِ الْحَافِظُ وَأَبُو بَكْرِ بْنُ الْحَسَنِ الْقَاضِي قَالَا ثنا أَبُو الْعَبَّاسِ مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ يَعْقُوبَ ثنا أَبُو زُرْعَةَ عَبْدُ الرَّحْمَنِ بْنُ عَمْرٍو ثنا أَحْمَدُ بْنُ خَالِدٍ ثنا مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ إِسْحَاقَ عَنْ يَحْيَى بْنِ عَبَّادِ بْنِ عَبْدِ اللهِ بْنِ الزُّبَيْرِ عَنْ أَبِيهِ عَنْ عَائِشَةَ ؓ قَالَتْ

لَوْ كُنْتُ اسْتَقْبَلْتُ مِنَ الْأَمْرِ مَا اسْتَدْبَرْتُ مَا غَسَّلَ النَّبِيَّ ﷺ غَيْرُ نِسَائِهِ قَالَ الشَّيْخُ رَحِمَهُ اللهُ فَتَلَهَّفَتْ عَلَى ذَلِكَ وَلَا يُتَلَهَّفُ إِلَّا عَلَى مَا يَجُوزُ  


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ibnmajah:1464Muḥammad b. Yaḥyá > Aḥmad b. Khālid al-Wahbī > Muḥammad b. Isḥāq > Yaḥyá b. ʿAbbād b. ʿAbdullāh b. al-Zubayr from his father > ʿĀʾishah

“If I had known then what I know now, no one would have washed the Prophet ﷺ but his wives.”  

ابن ماجة:١٤٦٤حَدَّثَنَا مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ يَحْيَى حَدَّثَنَا أَحْمَدُ بْنُ خَالِدٍ الْوَهْبِيُّ حَدَّثَنَا مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ إِسْحَاقَ عَنْ يَحْيَى بْنِ عَبَّادِ بْنِ عَبْدِ اللَّهِ بْنِ الزُّبَيْرِ عَنْ أَبِيهِ عَنْ عَائِشَةَ قَالَتْ

لَوْ كُنْتُ اسْتَقْبَلْتُ مِنَ الأَمْرِ مَا اسْتَدْبَرْتُ مَا غَسَّلَ النَّبِيَّ ﷺ غَيْرُ نِسَائِهِ