Sunan Abi Dawud

Purification (Kitab Al-Taharah)

كتاب الطهارة

Chapter 130: Performing Ghusl For The Friday Prayer

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Abu Sa'id al-Khudri reported the Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) as saying

Taking bath on Friday is necessary for every adult.

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Abu Sa'id al-Khudri and Abu Hurairah reported the Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) as saying

Abu Hurairah said: (It will atone for his sins) for three days more. he further said: One is rewarded ten times for doing a good work.

Abu Dawud said: The version narrated by Muhammad b. Salamah is perfect, and Hammad did not make a mention of the statement of Abu Hurairah.

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Aws al-Thaqafi reported the Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) as saying

If anyone washes his head on Friday and washes himself; and he narrated the rest of the tradition as above.

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Explaining the meaning of the words ghassala and ightasala (that occur in tradition 345) Sa'id (b. 'Abd al-'Aziz) said

One should wash one's head and body well (And not that one should make one's wife wash).

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Abu Hurairah reported the Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) as saying

Whoever takes bath due to sexual defilement on Friday and goes out (for Friday prayer), is treated like one who offers a camel as sacrifice; he who goes out in the second instance as one who offers a cow; he who goes out in the third instance is treated as one who offers horned cow ; he who goes out in the fourth instance is treated as one who offers hen ; he who goes out in the fifth instance is treated as one who offers an egg. When the Imam comes out (for sermon), the angels too attend to listen to the sermon.

Chapter 131: The Permissibility Of Not Performing Ghusl On Friday

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'Aishah said

The people (mostly) were workers and they would come for Friday prayer in the same condition, so it was said to them: If only you were to perform Ghusl.

Chapter 133: A Woman Washes Her Garment That She Wears During Her Menses [To Pray In]

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Narrated Umm Qays daughter of Mihsan

I asked the Prophet (ﷺ) about the blood of menstruation on the clothe. He said: Erase it off with a piece of wood and then wash it away with water and the leaves of the lote-tree.

Chapter 135: Praying In Women's Shu'ur (Garments)

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'Aishah said

The Prophet (ﷺ) would not in our quilts. Hammad said: I heard Sa'id b. Abi Sadaqah say: I asked Muhammad (b. Sirin) about it. He did not narrate it to me, but said: I heard it a long time ago and I do not know whom I heard it. I do not know whether I heard it from a trustworthy person or not. Make an inquiry about it.

Chapter 136: Concession In This Regard

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'Aishah said

The Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) would pray at night while I lay by his side during my menstrual period. A sheet of cloth would be partly on me and partly on him.

Chapter 140: The Earth Becomes Pure When Dry

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Ibn 'Umar said

I used to sleep in the mosque in the lifetime of the Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) when I was young and bachelor. The dogs would urinate frequently visit the mosque, and no one would sprinkle over it.

Chapter 141: Impurity That Touches The Hem (Of One's Clothes)

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Narrated A woman of the Banu AbdulAshhal

She reported: I said Messenger of Allah, our road to the mosque has an unpleasant stench; what should we do when it is raining? He asked: Is there not a cleaner part after the filthy part of the road? She replied: Why not (there is one)! He said: It makes up for the other.