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nasai-kubra:170 – al-Haytham b. Ayyūb > ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz b. Muḥammad > Zayd b. Aslam > ʿAṭāʾ b. Yasār > Ibn ʿAbbās

"I saw the Messenger of Allah performing ablution and he wiped his head once." (Using translation from Ibn Mājah 435)   

الكبرى للنسائي:١٧٠ – أَخْبَرَنَا الْهَيْثَمُ بْنُ أَيُّوبَ قَالَ حَدَّثَنَا عَبْدُ الْعَزِيزِ بْنُ مُحَمَّدٍ قَالَ أَخْبَرَنَا زَيْدُ بْنُ أَسْلَمَ عَنْ عَطَاءِ بْنِ يَسَارٍ عَنِ ابْنِ عَبَّاسٍ قَالَ

رَأَيْتُ رَسُولَ اللهِ ﷺ «تَوَضَّأَ وَمَسَحَ بِرَأْسِهِ وَأُذُنَيْهِ مُرَّةً»  

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Collected by Ibn Mājah, Ṭabarānī, Suyūṭī
ibnmajah:416 – Sufyān b. Wakīʿ > ʿĪsá b. Yūnus > Fāʾid Abū al-Warqāʾ b. ʿAbd al-Raḥman > ʿAbdullāh b. Abū Awfá

"I saw the Messenger of Allah performing ablution, washing each part three times, and wiping his head once."  

ابن ماجة:٤١٦ – حَدَّثَنَا سُفْيَانُ بْنُ وَكِيعٍ حَدَّثَنَا عِيسَى بْنُ يُونُسَ عَنْ فَائِدٍ أَبِي الْوَرْقَاءِ بْنِ عَبْدِ الرَّحْمَنِ عَنْ عَبْدِ اللَّهِ بْنِ أَبِي أَوْفَى قَالَ

رَأَيْتُ رَسُولَ اللَّهِ ﷺ تَوَضَّأَ ثَلاَثًا ثَلاَثًا وَمَسَحَ رَأْسَهُ مَرَّةً  

ibnmajah:435 – Abū Bakr b. Abū Shaybah > ʿAbbād b. al-ʿAwwām > Ḥajjāj > ʿAṭāʾ > ʿUthmān b. ʿAffān

"I saw the Messenger of Allah performing ablution and he wiped his head once."  

ابن ماجة:٤٣٥ – حَدَّثَنَا أَبُو بَكْرِ بْنُ أَبِي شَيْبَةَ حَدَّثَنَا عَبَّادُ بْنُ الْعَوَّامِ عَنْ حَجَّاجٍ عَنْ عَطَاءٍ عَنْ عُثْمَانَ بْنِ عَفَّانَ قَالَ

رَأَيْتُ رَسُولَ اللَّهِ ﷺ تَوَضَّأَ فَمَسَحَ رَأْسَهُ مَرَّةً  

ibnmajah:437 – Muḥammad b. al-Ḥārith al-Miṣrī > Yaḥyá b. Rāshid al-Baṣrī > Yazīd a freed slave of Salamah > Salamah b. al-Akwaʿ

"I saw the Messenger of Allah performing ablution, and he wiped his head once."  

ابن ماجة:٤٣٧ – حَدَّثَنَا مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ الْحَارِثِ الْمِصْرِيُّ حَدَّثَنَا يَحْيَى بْنُ رَاشِدٍ الْبَصْرِيُّ عَنْ يَزِيدَ مَوْلَى سَلَمَةَ عَنْ سَلَمَةَ بْنِ الأَكْوَعِ قَالَ

رَأَيْتُ رَسُولَ اللَّهِ ﷺ تَوَضَّأَ فَمَسَحَ رَأْسَهُ مَرَّةً  

ibnmajah:438 – Abū Bakr b. Abū Shaybah And ʿAlī b. Muḥammad > Wakīʿ > Sufyān > ʿAbdullāh b. Muḥammad b. ʿAqīl > al-Rubayyiʿ b. Muʿawwidh Ibn ʿAfrāʾ

"The Messenger of Allah performed ablution and wiped his head twice."  

ابن ماجة:٤٣٨ – حَدَّثَنَا أَبُو بَكْرِ بْنُ أَبِي شَيْبَةَ وَعَلِيُّ بْنُ مُحَمَّدٍ قَالاَ حَدَّثَنَا وَكِيعٌ عَنْ سُفْيَانَ عَنْ عَبْدِ اللَّهِ بْنِ مُحَمَّدِ بْنِ عَقِيلٍ عَنِ الرُّبَيِّعِ بِنْتِ مُعَوِّذِ ابْنِ عَفْرَاءَ قَالَتْ

تَوَضَّأَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ ﷺ فَمَسَحَ رَأْسَهُ مَرَّتَيْنِ  

tabarani:16522 – al-Ḥusayn b. Isḥāq al-Tustarī > Saʿīd b. > Basah al-Khazzāz > Shuʿayb b. Ḥarb > Mālik b. Mighwal > Ṭalḥah b. Muṣarrif > Bīh from his father

[Machine] I saw the messenger of Allah ﷺ perform ablution and then he wiped his head.  

الطبراني:١٦٥٢٢ – حَدَّثَنَا الْحُسَيْنُ بْنُ إِسْحَاقَ التُّسْتَرِيُّ ثنا سَعِيدُ بْنُ عَنْبَسَةَ الْخَزَّازُ ثنا شُعَيْبُ بْنُ حَرْبٍ ثنا مَالِكُ بْنُ مِغْوَلٍ عَنْ طَلْحَةَ بْنِ مُصَرِّفٍ عَنْ أبِيهِ عَنْ جَدِّهِ قَالَ

«رَأَيْتُ رَسُولَ اللهِ ﷺ يَتَوَضَّأُ فَمَسَحَ بِرَأْسِهِ»