Mishkat al-Masabih

Mishkat al-Masabih 284

Arabic hadith text

عَنْ عُثْمَانَ رَضِيَ اللَّهُ عَنْهُ قَالَ: قَالَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ صَلَّى اللَّهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ: «مَنْ تَوَضَّأَ فَأَحْسَنَ الْوُضُوءَ خَرَجَتْ خَطَايَاهُ مِنْ جَسَدِهِ حَتَّى تخرج من تَحت أَظْفَاره»

Translation

Unreviewed translation. All hadiths in this collection are available in five languages. Titles and introductions may remain in Arabic.

ʿUthmān reported that the Messenger of God said: ‘Whoever performs ablution and does it well, his sins leave his body until they emerge from beneath his fingernails.’

Notes and open questions — unreviewed
  • The accompanying grading labels this report muttafaq ʿalayh (‘agreed upon’). The Arabic source block does not include a transmitter attribution.