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ibnmajah:433Ismāʿīl b. ʿAbdullāh al-Raqqī > Muḥammad b. Rabīʿah al-Kilābī > Wāṣil b. al-Sāʾib al-Raqāshī > Abū Sawrah > Abū Ayyūb al-Anṣārī

"I saw the Messenger of Allah performing ablution and he ran his fingers through his beard."  

ابن ماجة:٤٣٣حَدَّثَنَا إِسْمَاعِيلُ بْنُ عَبْدِ اللَّهِ الرَّقِّيُّ حَدَّثَنَا مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ رَبِيعَةَ الْكِلاَبِيُّ حَدَّثَنَا وَاصِلُ بْنُ السَّائِبِ الرَّقَاشِيُّ عَنْ أَبِي سَوْرَةَ عَنْ أَبِي أَيُّوبَ الأَنْصَارِيِّ قَالَ

رَأَيْتُ رَسُولَ اللَّهِ ﷺ تَوَضَّأَ فَخَلَّلَ لِحْيَتَهُ  


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Collected by Ibn Mājah, Ḥākim, Ṭabarānī
ibnmajah:429[Chain 1] Muḥammad b. Abū ʿUmar al-ʿAdanī > Sufyān > ʿAbd al-Karīm Abū Umayyah > Ḥassān b. Bilāl > ʿAmmār b. Yāsir [Chain 2] Ibn Abū ʿUmar > Sufyān > Saʿīd b. Abū ʿArūbah > Qatādah > Ḥassān b. Bilāl > ʿAmmār b. Yāsir

"I saw the Messenger of Allah running his fingers through his beard."  

ابن ماجة:٤٢٩حَدَّثَنَا مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ أَبِي عُمَرَ الْعَدَنِيُّ حَدَّثَنَا سُفْيَانُ عَنْ عَبْدِ الْكَرِيمِ أَبِي أُمَيَّةَ عَنْ حَسَّانِ بْنِ بِلاَلٍ عَنْ عَمَّارِ بْنِ يَاسِرٍ ح وَحَدَّثَنَا ابْنُ أَبِي عُمَرَ قَالَ حَدَّثَنَا سُفْيَانُ عَنْ سَعِيدِ بْنِ أَبِي عَرُوبَةَ عَنْ قَتَادَةَ عَنْ حَسَّانِ بْنِ بِلاَلٍ عَنْ عَمَّارِ بْنِ يَاسِرٍ قَالَ

رَأَيْتُ رَسُولَ اللَّهِ ﷺ يُخَلِّلُ لِحْيَتَهُ  

ibnmajah:430Muḥammad b. Abū Khālid al-Qazwīnī > ʿAbd al-Razzāq > Isrāʾīl > ʿĀmir b. Shaqīq al-Asadī > Abū Wāʾil > ʿUthmān

The Messenger of Allah performed ablution and ran his fingers through his beard.  

ابن ماجة:٤٣٠حَدَّثَنَا مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ أَبِي خَالِدٍ الْقَزْوِينِيُّ حَدَّثَنَا عَبْدُ الرَّزَّاقِ عَنْ إِسْرَائِيلَ عَنْ عَامِرِ بْنِ شَقِيقٍ الأَسَدِيِّ عَنْ أَبِي وَائِلٍ عَنْ عُثْمَانَ

أَنَّ رَسُولَ اللَّهِ ﷺ تَوَضَّأَ فَخَلَّلَ لِحْيَتَهُ  

hakim:530ʿAlī b. Ḥamshādh > ʿUbayd b. ʿAbd al-Wāḥid > Muḥammad b. Wahb > Marwān b. Muḥammad > Ibrāhīm b. Muḥammad al-Fazārī > Mūsá b. Abū ʿĀʾishah > Anas b. Mālik

[Machine] I saw the Prophet ﷺ performing ablution and trimming his beard, and he said, "My Lord commanded me to do this."  

الحاكم:٥٣٠وَحَدَّثَنَا عَلِيُّ بْنُ حَمْشَاذٍ ثنا عُبَيْدُ بْنُ عَبْدِ الْوَاحِدِ ثنا مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ وَهْبٍ ثنا مَرْوَانُ بْنُ مُحَمَّدٍ ثنا إِبْرَاهِيمُ بْنُ مُحَمَّدٍ الْفَزَارِيُّ عَنْ مُوسَى بْنِ أَبِي عَائِشَةَ عَنْ أَنَسِ بْنِ مَالِكٍ قَالَ

رَأَيْتُ النَّبِيَّ ﷺ «تَوَضَّأَ وَخَلَّلَ لِحْيَتَهُ» وَقَالَ «بِهَذَا أَمَرَنِي رَبِّي»  

tabarani:8070[Chain 1] ʿUbayd b. Ghannām > Abū Bakr b. Abū Shaybah [Chain 2] Muḥammad b. Yaḥyá al-Marwazī > Ibrāhīm b. ʿAbdullāh al-Harawī > Zayd b. al-Ḥubāb > ʿUmar b. Sulaym al-Bāhilī > Abū Ghālib > Abū Umāmah

"When the Messenger of Allah performed ablution, he ran his fingers through his beard and separated his fingers (to let water run through them) twice." (Using translation from Ibn Mājah 431)   

الطبراني:٨٠٧٠حَدَّثَنَا عُبَيْدُ بْنُ غَنَّامٍ ثنا أَبُو بَكْرِ بْنُ أَبِي شَيْبَةَ ح وَحَدَّثَنَا مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ يَحْيَى الْمَرْوَزِيُّ ثنا إِبْرَاهِيمُ بْنُ عَبْدِ اللهِ الْهَرَوِيُّ قَالَا ثنا زَيْدُ بْنُ الْحُبَابِ ثنا عُمَرُ بْنُ سُلَيْمٍ الْبَاهِلِيُّ عَنْ أَبِي غَالِبٍ عَنْ أَبِي أُمَامَةَ قَالَ

«كَانَ رَسُولُ اللهِ ﷺ إِذَا تَوَضَّأَ خَلَّلَ لِحْيَتَهُ»