Sahih al-Bukhari
Sahih al-Bukhari 2845
حَدَّثَنَا عَبْدُ اللَّهِ بْنُ عَبْدِ الْوَهَّابِ، حَدَّثَنَا خَالِدُ بْنُ الْحَارِثِ، حَدَّثَنَا ابْنُ عَوْنٍ، عَنْ مُوسَى بْنِ أَنَسٍ، قَالَ وَذَكَرَ يَوْمَ الْيَمَامَةِ قَالَ أَتَى أَنَسٌ ثَابِتَ بْنَ قَيْسٍ وَقَدْ حَسَرَ عَنْ فَخِذَيْهِ وَهْوَ يَتَحَنَّطُ فَقَالَ يَا عَمِّ مَا يَحْبِسُكَ أَنْ لاَ تَجِيءَ قَالَ الآنَ يَا ابْنَ أَخِي. وَجَعَلَ يَتَحَنَّطُ، يَعْنِي مِنَ الْحَنُوطِ، ثُمَّ جَاءَ فَجَلَسَ، فَذَكَرَ فِي الْحَدِيثِ انْكِشَافًا مِنَ النَّاسِ، فَقَالَ هَكَذَا عَنْ وُجُوهِنَا حَتَّى نُضَارِبَ الْقَوْمَ، مَا هَكَذَا كُنَّا نَفْعَلُ مَعَ رَسُولِ اللَّهِ صلى الله عليه وسلم، بِئْسَ مَا عَوَّدْتُمْ أَقْرَانَكُمْ . رَوَاهُ حَمَّادٌ عَنْ ثَابِتٍ عَنْ أَنَسٍ.
Musa bin Anas, while recounting the day of Yamama, said: Anas came to Thabit bin Qais, who had uncovered his thighs and was applying hanut. Anas asked: “Uncle, what is keeping you from joining us?” He replied: “I am coming now, nephew.” He continued applying the funerary perfume—meaning the hanut—then came and sat down. The report mentions that people had fled. Thabit said: “Make way before us so that we may fight the enemy. We did not behave like this when we were with the Messenger of Allah ﷺ. What a bad habit you have taught your peers!” Hammad also narrated it from Thabit, from Anas.
Translation notes
Hanut is the perfuming substance used for the dead; the source explicitly glosses the term.