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tabarani:5696 – Muḥammad b. Muḥammad al-Jadhūʿī > Abū Kāmil al-Jaḥdarī > ʿAbd al-Wāḥid b. Ziyād > Maʿmar > al-Zuhrī > Sahl b. Saʿd

[Machine] The saying of the Ansar was only that water is from water at the beginning of Islam, then washing came after it.  

الطبراني:٥٦٩٦ – حَدَّثَنَا مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ مُحَمَّدٍ الْجَذُوعِيُّ ثنا أَبُو كَامِلٍ الْجَحْدَرِيُّ ثنا عَبْدُ الْوَاحِدِ بْنُ زِيَادٍ عَنْ مَعْمَرٍ عَنِ الزُّهْرِيِّ عَنْ سَهْلِ بْنِ سَعْدٍ قَالَ

إِنَّمَا كَانَ قَوْلُ الْأَنْصَارِ الْمَاءُ مِنَ الْمَاءِ فِي أَوَّلِ الْإِسْلَامِ ثُمَّ كَانَ الْغُسْلُ بَعْدَهُ  

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ذِكْرُ الْبَيَانِ بِأَنَّ هَذَا الْخَبَرَ، يَعْنِي خَبَرَ عُثْمَانَ مَنْسُوخٌ بَعْدَ أَنْ كَانَ مُبَاحًا

ibnhibban:1173 – al-Ḥasan b. Sufyān > Ḥibbān b. Mūsá > ʿAbdullāh > Yūnus b. Yazīd > al-Zuhrī > Sahl b. Saʿd > Ubay b. Kaʿb

"Water is for water,' was only permitted in the beginning of Islam. Then it was prohibited." (Using translation from Tirmidhī 110)  

ابن حبّان:١١٧٣ – أَخْبَرَنَا الْحَسَنُ بْنُ سُفْيَانَ قَالَ حَدَّثَنَا حِبَّانُ بْنُ مُوسَى قَالَ أَخْبَرَنَا عَبْدُ اللَّهِ قَالَ أَخْبَرَنَا يُونُسُ بْنُ يَزِيدَ عَنِ الزُّهْرِيِّ عَنْ سَهْلِ بْنِ سَعْدٍ عَنْ أُبَيِّ بْنِ كَعْبٍ قَالَ

«إِنَّمَا كَانَ الْمَاءُ مِنَ الْمَاءِ رُخْصَةً فِي أَوَّلِ الْإِسْلَامِ ثُمَّ نُهِيَ عَنْهَا»