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muslim:278e[Chain 1] Qutaybah b. Saʿīd > al-Mughīrah / al-Ḥizāmī > Abū al-Zinād > al-Aʿraj > Abū Hurayrah [Chain 2] Naṣr b. ʿAlī > ʿAbd al-Aʿlá > Hishām > Muḥammad > Abū Hurayrah [Chain 3] Abū Kurayb > Khālid / Ibn Makhlad > Muḥammad b. Jaʿfar > al-ʿAlāʾ from his father > Abū Hurayrah [Chain 4] Muḥammad b. Rāfiʿ > ʿAbd al-Razaāq > Maʿmar > Hammām b. Munabbih > Abū Hurayrah [Chain 5] Muḥammad b. Ḥātim > Muḥammad b. Bakr [Chain 6] al-Ḥulwānī And Ibn Rāfiʿ > ʿAbd al-Razaāq > Ibn Jurayj > Ziyād > Thābit a freed slave of ʿAbd al-Raḥman b. Zayd

This hadith has been transmitted through other chains of transmitters on the authority of Abu Huraira in which it is reported that the Messenger of Allah ﷺ made a mention of washing the hand, and did not instruct to wash it three times. But the hadith narrated from Jabir and Ibn Musayyab. Abu Salama, and Abdullah b. Shaqiq, Abu Salih, Abla Razin, there is a mention of" three times".  

مسلم:٢٧٨eوَحَدَّثَنَا قُتَيْبَةُ بْنُ سَعِيدٍ حَدَّثَنَا الْمُغِيرَةُ يَعْنِي الْحِزَامِيَّ عَنْ أَبِي الزِّنَادِ عَنِ الأَعْرَجِ عَنْ أَبِي هُرَيْرَةَ ح وَحَدَّثَنَا نَصْرُ بْنُ عَلِيٍّ حَدَّثَنَا عَبْدُ الأَعْلَى عَنْ هِشَامٍ عَنْ مُحَمَّدٍ عَنْ أَبِي هُرَيْرَةَ ح وَحَدَّثَنِي أَبُو كُرَيْبٍ حَدَّثَنَا خَالِدٌ يَعْنِي ابْنَ مَخْلَدٍ عَنْ مُحَمَّدِ بْنِ جَعْفَرٍ عَنِ الْعَلاَءِ عَنْ أَبِيهِ عَنْ أَبِي هُرَيْرَةَ ح وَحَدَّثَنَا مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ رَافِعٍ حَدَّثَنَا عَبْدُ الرَّزَّاقِ حَدَّثَنَا مَعْمَرٌ عَنْ هَمَّامِ بْنِ مُنَبِّهٍ عَنْ أَبِي هُرَيْرَةَ ح وَحَدَّثَنِي مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ حَاتِمٍ حَدَّثَنَا مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ بَكْرٍ ح وَحَدَّثَنَا الْحُلْوَانِيُّ وَابْنُ رَافِعٍ قَالاَ حَدَّثَنَا عَبْدُ الرَّزَّاقِ قَالاَ جَمِيعًا أَخْبَرَنَا ابْنُ جُرَيْجٍ أَخْبَرَنِي زِيَادٌ أَنَّ ثَابِتًا مَوْلَى عَبْدِ الرَّحْمَنِ بْنِ زَيْدٍ أَخْبَرَهُ أَنَّهُ سَمِعَ أَبَا هُرَيْرَةَ فِي رِوَايَتِهِمْ جَمِيعًا

عَنِ النَّبِيِّ ﷺ بِهَذَا الْحَدِيثِ كُلُّهُمْ يَقُولُ حَتَّى يَغْسِلَهَا وَلَمْ يَقُلْ وَاحِدٌ مِنْهُمْ ثَلاَثًا إِلاَّ مَا قَدَّمْنَا مِنْ رِوَايَةِ جَابِرٍ وَابْنِ الْمُسَيَّبِ وَأَبِي سَلَمَةَ وَعَبْدِ اللَّهِ بْنِ شَقِيقٍ وَأَبِي صَالِحٍ وَأَبِي رَزِينٍ فَإِنَّ فِي حَدِيثِهِمْ ذِكْرَ الثَّلاَثِ