134. Sunan an-Nasa’i Chapter: Interpreting The Saying Of Allah, The Mighty And Sublime: When You Intend To Offer Salah (The Prayer), wash your faces and your hands (forearms) up to your elbows; Book 1, Hadith 135

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Ref: Book 1, Hadith 135

Bab 1
باب تَأْوِيلِ قَوْلِهِ عَزَّ وَجَلَّ ‏{‏ إِذَا قُمْتُمْ إِلَى الصَّلاَةِ فَاغْسِلُوا وُجُوهَكُمْ وَأَيْدِيَكُمْ إِلَى الْمَرَافِقِ ‏}‏ ‏‏
Chapter: Interpreting The Saying Of Allah, The Mighty And Sublime: When You Intend To Offer Salah (The Prayer), wash your faces and your hands (forearms) up to your elbows

أَخْبَرَنَا إِسْمَاعِيلُ بْنُ مَسْعُودٍ، قَالَ حَدَّثَنَا خَالِدُ بْنُ الْحَارِثِ، عَنْ شُعْبَةَ، عَنْ مَنْصُورٍ، عَنْ مُجَاهِدٍ، عَنِ الْحَكَمِ، عَنْ أَبِيهِ، أَنَّ رَسُولَ اللَّهِ صلى الله عليه وسلم كَانَ إِذَا تَوَضَّأَ أَخَذَ حَفْنَةً مِنْ مَاءٍ فَقَالَ بِهَا هَكَذَا – وَوَصَفَ شُعْبَةُ – نَضَحَ بِهِ فَرْجَهُ فَذَكَرْتُهُ لإِبْرَاهِيمَ فَأَعْجَبَهُ قَالَ الشَّيْخُ ابْنُ السُّنِّيِّ قَالَ أَبُو عَبْدِ الرَّحْمَنِ الْحَكَمُ هُوَ ابْنُ سُفْيَانَ الثَّقَفِيُّ رضى الله عنه ‏.‏

It was narrated from Al-Hakam, from his father, that when the Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) performed Wudu’, he would take a handful of water and do this with it. Shu’bah described it: “He would sprinkle his private parts with it.” [1]
Shaikh Ibn As-Sunni said: “Al-Hakam (one of the narrators) is Ibn Sufyan Ath-Thaqafi.

[1] The purpose is to ward off devilish whispers lest the person think any emission has taken place, and thus think that his Wudu’ has been invalidated.

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