Correcting an incomplete ablution
[AI] A man performed ablution for the noon prayer and left a spot the size of a fingernail on his foot that the water had not reached. The Messenger of Allah ﷺ saw him and said: "Go back and perform your ablution properly." So he went back, performed ablution, and prayed.
Abu Bakr said: We do not know of anyone who narrated this hadith with a connected chain from Umar except through this route. Al-A'mash narrated it from Abu Sufyan, from Umar, as a mawquf report.
أَنَّ رَجُلًا تَوَضَّأَ لِصَلَاةِ الظُّهْرِ فَتَرَكَ مَوْضِعَ ظُفْرٍ عَلَى قَدَمِهِ لَمْ يُصِبْهُ الْمَاءُ فَأَبْصَرَهُ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ ﷺ فَقَالَ ارْجِعْ فَأَحْسِنْ وُضُوءَكَ فَرَجَعَ فَتَوَضَّأَ وَصَلَّى قَالَ أَبُو بَكْرٍ وَهَذَا الْحَدِيثُ لَا نَعْلَمُ أَحَدًا أَسْنَدَهُ عَنْ عُمَرَ إِلَّا مِنْ هَذَا الْوَجْهِ وَقَدْ رَوَاهُ الْأَعْمَشُ عَنْ أَبِي سُفْيَانَ عَنْ عُمَرَ مَوْقُوفًا
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