Mishkat al-Masabih 289

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

ʿUmar ibn al-Khaṭṭāb reported that the Messenger of God said: ‘Whoever among you completes—or performs thoroughly—his ablution and then says, “I testify that there is no god but God and that Muḥammad is His servant and Messenger”—or, in another version, “I testify that there is no god but God alone, without partner, and I testify that Muḥammad is His servant and Messenger”—will have the eight gates of Paradise opened for him, and he may enter through whichever he wishes.’

This is how Muslim transmitted it in his Ṣaḥīḥ. Al-Ḥumaydī included it in his collection of reports found in Muslim but not al-Bukhārī, and Ibn al-Athīr likewise included it in Jāmiʿ al-Uṣūl. Shaykh Muḥyī al-Dīn al-Nawawī mentioned it at the end of Muslim’s report, according to the version transmitted to us. Al-Tirmidhī added: ‘O God, place me among those who repent and place me among those who purify themselves.’

The report transmitted by Muḥyī al-Sunna among the sound reports—‘Whoever performs ablution and does it well’ and onward—is transmitted verbatim by al-Tirmidhī in his Jāmiʿ, except that it lacks the words ‘I testify’ before ‘that Muḥammad…’