Mishkat al-Masabih
Purification
كتاب الطهارة
Chapter 20
مخالطة الجنب - الفصل الثاني
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Ibn ʿAbbās reported that one of the Prophet’s wives bathed in a large vessel. The Messenger of Allah then wished to perform ablution from it, and she said: ‘Messenger of Allah, I was in a state of sexual impurity.’ He replied: ‘Water does not become sexually impure.’ Al-Tirmidhī, Abū Dāwūd, and Ibn Mājah transmitted it; al-Dārimī transmitted a similar report.
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Graded ṣaḥīḥ by al-Albānī.
إِنَّ الْمَاءَ لَا يُجْنِبُ
The Arabic source is a hadith about water used for ablution, while the supplied English witness is an unrelated editorial cross-reference to the Book of Foods.
Can the English witness for this source block be checked or corrected?
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In Sharḥ al-Sunna, it is reported from Ibn ʿAbbās, from Maymūna, with the wording found in al-Maṣābīḥ.
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Al-Albānī marked the report as not studied (lam tatimm dirāsatuhu).
عَنْ مَيْمُونَةَ بِلَفْظِ المصابيح
The Arabic unit is a brief cross-reference, while the English witness also includes the full preceding report about the water in the vessel.
Please confirm that only the cross-reference belongs to this Arabic source block.
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ʿĀʾisha said: ‘The Messenger of Allah would perform the ritual bath after sexual impurity, then warm himself against me before I bathed.’ Ibn Mājah transmitted it; al-Tirmidhī transmitted a similar report.
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Al-Albānī graded the report ḍaʿīf (weak).
رَوَاهُ ابْنُ مَاجَه وروى التِّرْمِذِيّ نَحوه
The English witness adds a cross-reference to Sharḥ al-Sunna and al-Maṣābīḥ that is absent from this Arabic unit.
Can the extra cross-reference be confirmed as belonging to this source block?
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ʿAlī said: ‘The Prophet would leave the privy, recite the Qurʾān to us, and eat meat with us. Nothing kept him from reciting the Qurʾān except sexual impurity.’ Abū Dāwūd and al-Nasāʾī transmitted it; Ibn Mājah transmitted a similar report.
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Al-Albānī graded the report ḍaʿīf (weak).
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Ibn ʿUmar reported that the Messenger of Allah said: ‘A menstruating woman and a person in a state of sexual impurity must not recite any part of the Qurʾān.’ Al-Tirmidhī transmitted it.
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Al-Albānī graded the report ḍaʿīf (weak).
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ʿĀʾisha reported that the Messenger of Allah said: ‘Turn these houses away from the mosque, for I do not permit a menstruating woman or a person in a state of sexual impurity to enter the mosque.’ Abū Dāwūd transmitted it.
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Al-Albānī graded the report ḍaʿīf (weak).
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ʿAlī reported that the Messenger of Allah said: ‘The angels do not enter a house containing an image, a dog, or a person in a state of sexual impurity.’ Abū Dāwūd and al-Nasāʾī transmitted it.
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Al-Albānī graded the report ḍaʿīf (weak).
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ʿAmmār ibn Yāsir reported that the Messenger of Allah said: ‘There are three whom the angels do not approach: the corpse of a disbeliever, one drenched in khalūq, and a person in a state of sexual impurity—unless he performs ablution.’ Abū Dāwūd transmitted it.
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Khalūq is a liquid yellow perfume, mainly composed of saffron. Al-Albānī graded the report ḍaʿīf (weak).
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ʿAbd Allāh ibn Abī Bakr ibn Muḥammad ibn ʿAmr ibn Ḥazm said that the letter the Messenger of Allah wrote to ʿAmr ibn Ḥazm contained these words: ‘None may touch the Qurʾān except one who is pure.’ Mālik and al-Dāraquṭnī transmitted it.
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Al-Albānī marked the report as not studied (lam tatimm dirāsatuhu). The Arabic says ṭāhir (‘pure’), without specifying the type of purity.
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Nāfiʿ said: ‘I went with Ibn ʿUmar on an errand to Ibn ʿAbbās. After Ibn ʿUmar had taken care of his need, he related to me that a man walking along a street met the Messenger of Allah as he was coming from relieving himself—or urinating—and greeted him. The Messenger did not reply until the man was nearly out of sight. The Messenger then struck his hands against a wall and wiped his face with them, struck the wall again and wiped his forearms, then returned the man’s greeting. He said: “Nothing prevented me from returning your greeting except that I was not in a state of ritual purity.”’ Abū Dāwūd transmitted it.
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Al-Albānī graded the report ḍaʿīf (weak). The Arabic gives two alternatives for how the Prophet had relieved himself and says only that he was not in a state of ṭahāra.
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Al-Muhājir ibn Qunfudh said: ‘I came upon the Prophet while he was urinating and greeted him, but he did not return my greeting until he had performed ablution. He then explained: “I disliked mentioning Allah, Mighty and Majestic, except in a state of purity”’—or he said, ‘in a state of purification.’
Abū Dāwūd transmitted it. Al-Nasāʾī transmitted it only up to ‘until he had performed ablution,’ and added: ‘When he had performed ablution, he returned the greeting.’
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Graded ṣaḥīḥ by al-Albānī. The Arabic preserves uncertainty between ‘purity’ and ‘purification.’
Chapter 21
مخالطة الجنب - الفصل الثالث
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Umm Salama said: ‘The Messenger of Allah would enter a state of sexual impurity, then sleep, wake, and then sleep again.’ Aḥmad transmitted it.
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Al-Albānī graded the report ḍaʿīf (weak).
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Shuʿba said that when Ibn ʿAbbās performed the ritual bath after sexual impurity, he poured water from his right hand onto his left seven times, then washed his private parts. Once he forgot how many times he had poured it and asked me. I said: ‘I don’t know.’ He said: ‘You should have known! What kept you from knowing?’ He would then perform ablution as for prayer, pour water over his body, and say: ‘This is how the Messenger of Allah purified himself.’ Abū Dāwūd transmitted it.
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Al-Albānī graded the report ḍaʿīf (weak). The phrase lā umma lak is an expression of reproach; it is rendered idiomatically rather than literally.
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Abū Rāfiʿ reported: ‘One day the Prophet visited each of his wives and performed the ritual bath with each one. I asked him: “Messenger of Allah, why not perform one bath at the end?” He replied: “That is purer, better, and cleaner.”’ Aḥmad and Abū Dāwūd transmitted it.
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Graded ḥasan by al-Albānī.
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Al-Ḥakam ibn ʿAmr reported that the Messenger of Allah forbade a man to perform ablution using the water left over from a woman’s purification. Abū Dāwūd, Ibn Mājah, and al-Tirmidhī transmitted it. Al-Tirmidhī’s wording adds: ‘Or he said: her leftover water.’ Al-Tirmidhī called it ḥasan ṣaḥīḥ.
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Graded ṣaḥīḥ by al-Albānī.
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Ḥumayd al-Ḥimyarī said: ‘I met a man who had accompanied the Prophet for four years, just as Abū Hurayra had. He told me that the Messenger of Allah forbade a woman to bathe using water left over by a man, and a man to bathe using water left over by a woman.’ Musaddad added: ‘They should both draw water from it.’
Abū Dāwūd and al-Nasāʾī transmitted it. Aḥmad added at the beginning: ‘He forbade us to comb our hair every day or to urinate in a place used for bathing.’ Ibn Mājah transmitted it from ʿAbd Allāh ibn Sarjis.
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The main report does not name the companion. Al-Albānī’s grading fields show ṣaḥīḥ twice.
Chapter 22
المياه - الفصل الأول
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Abū Hurayra reported that the Messenger of Allah said: ‘None of you should urinate in stagnant water that does not flow and then bathe in it.’
In a version transmitted by Muslim, he said: ‘None of you should bathe in stagnant water while in a state of sexual impurity.’ They asked: ‘How should one do it, Abū Hurayra?’ He replied: ‘He should scoop water from it by handfuls.’
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The report is graded muttafaq ʿalayh (agreed upon). The first prohibition and Muslim’s variant wording are kept distinct.
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Jābir said: ‘The Messenger of Allah forbade urinating in stagnant water.’ Muslim transmitted it.
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Graded ṣaḥīḥ by al-Albānī.
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Al-Sāʾib ibn Yazīd said: ‘My maternal aunt took me to the Prophet and said: “Messenger of Allah, my sister’s son is ill.” He wiped my head and prayed for blessing for me. Then he performed ablution, and I drank some of the water from his ablution. I stood behind him and saw the Seal of Prophethood between his shoulders, like the button of a bridal canopy.’
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The report is graded muttafaq ʿalayh (agreed upon). The Arabic simile is zirr al-ḥajala, literally the button of a bridal canopy/chamber.
Chapter 23
المياه - الفصل الثاني
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Ibn ʿUmar said that the Messenger of Allah was asked about water in the open country, which animals and wild beasts visited. He replied: ‘When the water amounts to two qullahs, it does not carry impurity.’
Aḥmad, Abū Dāwūd, al-Tirmidhī, al-Nasāʾī, al-Dārimī, and Ibn Mājah transmitted it. Another version from Abū Dāwūd says: ‘It does not become impure.’
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Graded ṣaḥīḥ by al-Albānī. Qullahs are large water jars; the report uses the measure ‘two qullahs’ without specifying a modern volume.