On the subject of ablution, he said: "Perform the ablution thoroughly, and run your fingers between your fingers, and exaggerate in snuffing water up the nose, unless you are fasting."(1)

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(1) A sound hadith, and this chain is good on account of Yahya ibn Sulaym—namely, al-Ta'ifi—and he was followed up in Ahmad's *Musnad* (16384) and elsewhere with a sound chain.

It was also narrated in abbreviated form with the command to perform ablution thoroughly and run fingers between fingers by al-Nasa'i in *al-Kubra* (116), and Ibn Majah (448); and abbreviated with the command to perform thoroughly and exaggerate in snuffing water up the nose by al-Tirmidhi (788), and al-Nasa'i in *al-Mujtaba* (87), and Ibn Majah (407), via Yahya ibn Sulaym, with this chain.

It was also narrated in abbreviated form with the command to run fingers between fingers by al-Tirmidhi (38), and al-Nasa'i in *al-Kubra* (116); and abbreviated with the command to perform thoroughly and exaggerate in snuffing water up the nose by al-Nasa'i (99), via Sufyan, from Isma'il ibn Kathir Abu Hashim, with it.

It is in *Musnad Ahmad* (16384), and *Sahih Ibn Hibban* (1054).

It will follow later at number (3973), and in abbreviated form at number (2366).

His saying: "I was the delegate of Banu al-Muntafiq," meaning: the leader of the delegation and their chief.

His saying: "A *kharirah* was ordered to be made for us"—the *kharirah* is a food made from meat and flour: the meat is cut into small pieces, water is poured over it, and when it is cooked, flour is sprinkled over it. If there is no meat in it, then it is *'asidah*.

His saying: "al-muraah" is the place where sheep and camels are sheltered at night.

The *sakhlah* is the young of a goat, and the *bahmah* is the young of a sheep when first born.

His saying: "ta'iru"—the *yu'ar* is the sound of a sheep.

His saying: "walladtu"—it is with a shaddah on the lam and a fatha on the ta'. It is said: *wallada al-shaata* when one attends its birth and assists it until the offspring comes out of it.

His saying: "la tahsabanna"—and he did not say "la tahsabanna." Al-Nawawi said: The narrator's intent is that the Prophet, peace and blessings be upon him, uttered it with a kasrah on the sin, and did not utter it in this case with a fatha. So let no one think that I narrated it by meaning with the other variant, or that I doubted it, or erred! Rather, I am certain of his utterance with the kasrah.

*Al-badha'* with elongation: obscenity of speech. *Al-zainah*: the woman. *Umayyatuka*: the diminutive of *amah* (slave-girl).