Harun ibn Ma‘ruf and Harmalah ibn Yahya narrated to us; they said: Ibn Wahb narrated to us; Yunus informed me, from Ibn Shihab, who said: Abu Salamah ibn ‘Abd al-Rahman ibn ‘Awf informed me that he heard Abu Hurayrah say:

The prayer was established, and we stood up and straightened the rows before the Messenger of Allah ﷺ came out to us. Then the Messenger of Allah ﷺ came, and when he stood in his place of prayer, before he said the takbir, he remembered [that he was in a state of ritual impurity], so he turned away and said to us, “Stay in your places.” So we remained standing, waiting for him, until he came out to us—he had performed the major ablution (ghusl), and water was dripping from his head—then he said the takbir and led us in prayer.