10 - Chapter: Regarding a ring bearing the mention of Allah, may He be exalted, with which one enters the privy

19 - Narrated to us Nasr ibn Ali, from Abu Ali al-Hanafi, from Hammam, from Ibn Jurayj, from al-Zuhri, from Anas, who said: When the Prophet, peace and blessings be upon him, entered the privy, he would remove his ring.

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Al-Bukhari attached it in his "Sahih" before hadith (305), saying: "And the Prophet, peace and blessings be upon him, used to..."

His saying: "on all his occasions" is a general statement qualified by exceptions: the one answering the call of nature, due to the dislike of remembrance [of Allah] at that time with the tongue; the one in a state of major impurity (junub), based on the report of al-Tirmidhi and others: "Nothing used to prevent him from the Quran except major impurity"; and the state of sexual intercourse, for it is disliked. This is the position of the majority. Al-Manawi indicated this in "Fayd al-Qadir."

(1) Its chain is weak. Ibn Jurayj - whose name is Abd al-Malik ibn Abd al-Aziz - was a mudallis (one who conceals deficiencies in narration) and he narrated it using ambiguous phrasing ('an'anah). There is disagreement concerning it on the authority of Hammam, as will follow in the takhrij (source analysis). Abu Dawud declared this hadith weak here, as did al-Nasa'i, al-Daraqutni, and al-Bayhaqi. Al-Tirmidhi, Ibn Hibban, and Ibn al-Turkumani declared it authentic. Al-Mundhiri said, as in "al-Talkhis al-Habir" 1/108: The correct view in my opinion is to declare it authentic, for its narrators are trustworthy and precise. He also said in "Mukhtasar al-Sunan" 1/26: Since the case of Hammam is as such, what al-Tirmidhi said is preponderant, and his being alone in narrating it does not weaken the hadith. Ibn al-Qayyim said in "Tahdhib al-Sunan" 1/28: At most it is gharib (rarely narrated), but as for it being munkar (rejected) or shadhdh (irregular), no.

Abu Ali al-Hanafi: He is Ubaydullah ibn Abd al-Majid al-Basri.

It was also recorded by al-Tirmidhi (1844), al-Nasa'i in "al-Kubra" (9470), and Ibn Majah (303) via multiple paths from Hammam ibn Yahya al-Awadhi, with this chain. Al-Tirmidhi said: Hasan Sahih Gharib (good, authentic, and rare). Al-Nasa'i said: This hadith is not preserved (ghayr mahfuz).

It is in "Sahih Ibn Hibban" (1413). Hammam was followed in narrating it, as will come shortly.

It was also recorded by al-Hakim 1/187 and al-Bayhaqi 1/94-95 via the path of Hudbah ibn Khalid, from Hammam, from Ibn Jurayj, from al-Zuhri, who said: I know it only from al-Zuhri, from Anas.

And Umar ibn Shabbah narrated it - as in "Ahkam al-Khawatim" by Ibn Rajab, p. 171 - from Hibban ibn Hilal, from Hammam, from Ibn Jurayj, from al-Zuhri, as mursal (with the Companion omitted from the chain).