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darimi:690 – Ḥajjāj b. Minhāl > Mahdī > Muḥammad b. ʿAbdullāh b. Abū Yaʿqūb > al-Ḥasan b. Saʿd a freed slave of al-Ḥasan b. ʿAlī > ʿAbdullāh b. Jaʿfar

"The thing that the Prophet most liked to conceal himself behind when relieving himself was a hillock or a stand of date-palm trees." (Using translation from Ibn Mājah 340)  

الدارمي:٦٩٠ – أَخْبَرَنَا حَجَّاجُ بْنُ مِنْهَالٍ حَدَّثَنَا مَهْدِيٌّ حَدَّثَنَا مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ عَبْدِ اللَّهِ بْنِ أَبِي يَعْقُوبَ عَنِ الْحَسَنِ بْنِ سَعْدٍ مَوْلَى الْحَسَنِ بْنِ عَلِيٍّ عَنْ عَبْدِ اللَّهِ بْنِ جَعْفَرٍ قَالَ

«كَانَ أَحَبَّ مَا اسْتَتَرَ بِهِ النَّبِيُّ ﷺ لِحَاجَةٍ هَدَفٌ أَوْ حَائِشُ نَخْلٍ»  

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Collected by Ibn Mājah, Ibn Ḥibbān
ibnmajah:340 – Muḥammad b. Yaḥyá > Abū al-Nuʿmān > Mahdī b. Maymūn > Muḥammad b. Abū Yaʿqūb > al-Ḥasan b. Saʿd > ʿAbdullāh b. Jaʿfar

"The thing that the Prophet most liked to conceal himself behind when relieving himself was a hillock or a stand of date-palm trees."  

ابن ماجة:٣٤٠ – حَدَّثَنَا مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ يَحْيَى حَدَّثَنَا أَبُو النُّعْمَانِ حَدَّثَنَا مَهْدِيُّ بْنُ مَيْمُونٍ حَدَّثَنَا مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ أَبِي يَعْقُوبَ عَنِ الْحَسَنِ بْنِ سَعْدٍ عَنْ عَبْدِ اللَّهِ بْنِ جَعْفَرٍ قَالَ

كَانَ أَحَبَّ مَا اسْتَتَرَ بِهِ النَّبِيُّ ﷺ لِحَاجَتِهِ هَدَفٌ أَوْ حَائِشُ نَخْلٍ  

ذِكْرُ مَا يُسْتَحَبُّ لِلْمَرْءِ مِنَ الِاسْتِتَارِ عِنْدَ الْقُعُودِ عَلَى الْحَاجَةِ

ibnhibban:1411 – Ibn Khuzaymah > al-Ḥasan b. Muḥammad b. al-Ṣabbāḥ > Yazīd b. Hārūn > Mahdī b. Maymūn > Muḥammad b. Abū Yaʿqūb > al-Ḥasan b. Saʿd > ʿAbdullāh b. Jaʿfar

"The Messenger of Allah ﷺ used to love what provided shelter or the fronds of palm trees."  

ابن حبّان:١٤١١ – أَخْبَرَنَا ابْنُ خُزَيْمَةَ قَالَ حَدَّثَنَا الْحَسَنُ بْنُ مُحَمَّدِ بْنِ الصَّبَّاحِ قَالَ حَدَّثَنَا يَزِيدُ بْنُ هَارُونَ قَالَ أَخْبَرَنَا مَهْدِيُّ بْنُ مَيْمُونٍ عَنْ مُحَمَّدِ بْنِ أَبِي يَعْقُوبَ عَنِ الْحَسَنِ بْنِ سَعْدٍ عَنْ عَبْدِ اللَّهِ بْنِ جَعْفَرٍ قَالَ

«كَانَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ ﷺ أَحَبُّ مَا اسْتَتَرَ بِهِ هَدَفٌ أَوْ حَائِشُ نَخْلٍ»