Jami` at-Tirmidhi 16

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Hannad narrated to us; Abu Mu'awiyah narrated to us, from al-A'mash, from Ibrahim, from 'Abd al-Rahman ibn Yazid, who said: Salman was asked, "Has your Prophet taught you everything, even how to relieve yourselves?" Salman replied: "Indeed. He forbade us to face the qiblah while defecating or urinating, to clean ourselves with the right hand, to use fewer than three stones for cleaning, or to clean ourselves with dung or bone." Abu 'Isa said: There are also reports on this subject from 'A'ishah, Khuzaymah ibn Thabit, Jabir, and Khallad ibn al-Sa'ib, from his father. Abu 'Isa said: Salman's hadith on this subject is hasan sahih. This is the position of most scholars among the Prophet's Companions and those after them: they held that cleaning with stones suffices, even without water, if it removes the trace of defecation and urine. This is the view of al-Thawri, Ibn al-Mubarak, al-Shafi'i, Ahmad, and Ishaq.