Bulugh al-Maram
Bulugh al-Maram 32
عَنْ أَبِي هُرَيْرَةَ - رضى الله عنه - عَنْ رَسُولِ اَللَّهِ - صلى الله عليه وسلم -قَالَ: { لَوْلَا أَنْ أَشُقَّ عَلَى أُمَّتِي لَأَمَرْتُهُمْ بِالسِّوَاكِ مَعَ كُلِّ وُضُوءٍ } أَخْرَجَهُ مَالِكٌ, وأَحْمَدُ, وَالنَّسَائِيُّ, وَصَحَّحَهُ اِبْنُ خُزَيْمَة َ 1 .1 - صحيح. علقه البخاري (458/فتح) بصيغة الجزم، وعنده لفظ "عند" بدل "مع". ورواه أحمد (2 /460 و 517)، والنسائي في "الكبرى" (298)، وابن خزيمة (140). وللحديث ألفاظ وطرق أخرى في "الصحيحين" وغيرهما، وقد ذكرتها "بالأصل".
Unreviewed translation. All hadiths in this collection are available in five languages. Titles and introductions may remain in Arabic.
Abu Huraira reported from the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him), who said: “Were it not that I would burden my community, I would have commanded them to use the siwak with every ablution.” Malik, Ahmad, and al-Nasa'i reported it, and Ibn Khuzaymah graded it authentic. 1 — Authentic. Al-Bukhari cited it without a chain, using a definitive formula (Fath al-Bari, 458); his wording has “at” in place of “with.” Ahmad (2/460 and 517), al-Nasa'i in al-Kubra (298), and Ibn Khuzaymah (140) reported it. The hadith has other wordings and chains in the Two Sahihs and elsewhere, which I mentioned in “the Original.”
Notes and open questions — unreviewed
وعنده لفظ "عند" بدل "مع"
The English witness mentions al-Bukhari’s suspended citation but does not report the attached note that his wording uses ‘at’ instead of ‘with.’
Should the witness be recorded as omitting this wording variant?