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tabarani:3937[Chain 1] Abū Muslim al-Kashhī > al-Qaʿnabī And ʾIbrāhīm b. Bashhār al-Ramādī [Chain 2] Abū Ḥuṣayn al-Qāḍī > Yaḥyá al-Ḥimmānī > Sufyān b. ʿUyaynah > al-Zuhrī > ʿAṭāʾ b. Yazīd al-Laythī > Abū Ayyūb

[Machine] Narrated Abu Ayub:

The Prophet ﷺ said, "Do not face the Qibla nor turn your backs towards it while defecating or urinating, but face to the east or west."  

الطبراني:٣٩٣٧حَدَّثَنَا أَبُو مُسْلِمٍ الْكَشِّيُّ

حَدَّثَنَا الْقَعْنَبِيُّ وَإِبْرَاهِيمُ بْنُ بَشَّارٍ الرَّمَادِيُّ ح وَحَدَّثَنَا أَبُو حُصَيْنٍ الْقَاضِي ثنا يَحْيَى الْحِمَّانِيُّ قَالُوا ثنا سُفْيَانُ بْنُ عُيَيْنَةَ عَنِ الزُّهْرِيِّ عَنْ عَطَاءِ بْنِ يَزِيدَ اللَّيْثِيِّ عَنْ أَبِي أَيُّوبَ قَالَ قَالَ النَّبِيُّ ﷺ «لَا تَسْتَقْبِلُوا الْقِبْلَةَ وَلَا تَسْتَدْبِرُوهَا بِبَوْلٍ وَلَا غَائِطٍ وَلَكِنْ شَرِّقُوا وَغَرِّبُوا»  


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tabarani:6653[Chain 1] Bishr b. Mūsá > al-Ḥumaydī [Chain 2] Abū Muslim al-Kashhī > al-Qaʿnabī And ʾIbrāhīm b. Bashhār al-Ramādī [Chain 3] ʿAbdullāh b. Aḥmad b. Ḥanbal > Abū > Sufyān b. ʿUyaynah > al-Zuhrī > al-Sāʾib b. Yazīd

[Machine] Al-Qa'nabi and Ibrahim ibn Bashshar al-Ramadi narrated to us, and Abdullah ibn Ahmad ibn Hanbal narrated to me, who narrated from his father, who narrated from Sufyan ibn 'Uyaynah, from al-Zuhri, from al-Sa'ib ibn Yazid, who said, "I was among those who went from as-Sibyan to Thaniyat al-Wada' to meet the Prophet ﷺ during the Battle of Tabuk."  

الطبراني:٦٦٥٣حَدَّثَنَا بِشْرُ بْنُ مُوسَى ثنا الْحُمَيْدِيُّ ح وَحَدَّثَنَا أَبُو مُسْلِمٍ الْكَشِّيُّ

ثنا الْقَعْنَبِيُّ وَإِبْرَاهِيمُ بْنُ بَشَّارٍ الرَّمَادِيُّ ح وَحَدَّثَنَا عَبْدُ اللهِ بْنُ أَحْمَدَ بْنِ حَنْبَلٍ حَدَّثَنِي أَبِي قَالُوا ثنا سُفْيَانُ بْنُ عُيَيْنَةَ عَنِ الزُّهْرِيِّ عَنِ السَّائِبِ بْنِ يَزِيدَ قَالَ «كُنْتُ فِيمَنْ خَرَجَ مِنَ الصِّبْيَانِ إِلَى ثَنِيَّةِ الْوَدَاعِ يَتَلَقَّى النَّبِيَّ ﷺ فِي غَزْوَةِ تَبُوكَ»