Aishah made a mention of the women of the Ansar and admired them stating that they had obliged (all Muslims). She then said: One of their women came upon the Messenger of Allah صلی اللہ علیہ وسلم. She then reported the rest of the tradition to the same effect; but this version she said the words: a musk-scented piece of cloth. Musaddad said: Abu 'Awanah used the word firsah (i. e. a piece of cloth), but Abu Al-Ahwas used the word qasrah (i. e. a small piece of cloth).
Read More..Aishah said: Asma asked the Prophet صلی اللہ علیہ وسلم and then narrated the rest of the tradition to the same effect. He (the Prophet) said: a musk-scented piece of cloth. She (Asma) said: How should I purify with it ? He said: By glory of Allah! Purify with it, and he covered his face with the cloth. This version also adds: She asked about the washing because of sexual defilement. He said: Take your water and purify yourself as best as possible. Then pour water over yourself. Aishah said: The best of the women are the women of the Ansar. Shyness would not prevent them from inquiring about religion and from acquiring deep understanding in it.
Read More..Narrated Aishah, Ummul Muminin: The Messenger of Allah صلی اللہ علیہ وسلم sent Usayd ibn Hudayr and some people with him to search the necklace lost by Aishah. The time of prayer came and they prayed without ablution. When they returned to the Prophet صلی اللہ علیہ وسلم and related the fact to him, the verse concerning tayammum was revealed. Ibn Nufayl added: Usayd said to her: May Allah have mercy upon you! Never has there been an occasion when you were beset with an unpleasant matter but Allah made the Muslims and you come out of that.
Read More..Narrated Ammar ibn Yasir: They (the Companions of the Prophet) wiped with pure earth (their hands and face) to offer the dawn prayer in the company of the Messenger of Allah صلی اللہ علیہ وسلم. They struck the ground with their palms and wiped their faces once. Then they repeated and struck the ground with their palms once again and wiped their arms completely up to the shoulders and up to the armpits with the inner side of their hands.
Read More..The tradition has also been reported through a different chain of narrators. This version has: The Muslims stood up and struck the earth with their palms, but did not get any earth (in their hands). He (Ibn Wahb) then narrated the rest of the tradition in like manner, but he did not mention the words shoulders and armpits . Ibn al-Laith said: (They) wiped above the elbows.
Read More..Narrated Ammar ibn Yasir: The Messenger of Allah صلی اللہ علیہ وسلم encamped at Ulat al-Jaysh and Aishah was in his company. Her necklace of onyx of Zifar was broken (and fell somewhere). The people were detained to make a search for that necklace until the dawn broke. There was no water with the people. Therefore Abu Bakr became angry with her and said: You detained the people and they have no water with them. Thereupon Allah, the Exalted, sent down revelation about it to His Messenger صلی اللہ علیہ وسلم granting concession to purify themselves with pure earth. Then the Muslims stood up with the Messenger of Allah صلی اللہ علیہ وسلم and struck the ground with their hands and then they raised their hands, and did not take any earth (in their hands). Then they wiped with them their faces and hands up to the shoulders, and from their palms up to the armpits. Ibn Yahya added in his version: Ibn Shihab said in his tradition: The people do not take this (tradition) into account. Abu Dawud said: Ibn Ishaq also reported it in a similar way. In this (version) he said on the authority of Ibn Abbas. He mentioned the words two strikes (i. e. striking the earth twice) as mentioned by Yunus. And Mamar also narrated on the authority of al-Zuhri two strikes . And Malik said: From al-Zuhri from Ubaid Allah bin Abdullah from his father on the authority of Ammar. Abu Uwais also reported it in a similar way on the authority of al-Zuhri. But Ibn Uyainah doubted it, he sometimes said: from his father, and sometimes he said: from Ibn Abbas. Ibn Uyainah was confused in it and in his hearing from al-Zuhri. No one has mentioned two strikes in this tradition except those whose names I have mentioned.
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